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Tre volte il Cavalier la donna stringe — Jerusalem Delivered

"Tre volte il Cavalier la donna stringe Con le robuste braccia."
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Jerusalem Delivered
Jerusalem Delivered
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Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem, is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Tasso began work on the poem in the mid-1560s. Originally, it bore the title Il Goffredo. It was com