Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814337562
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Annotations and a glossary clarify the numerous historical, geographical, and mythological references.
Jerusalem Delivered
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814337562
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Annotations and a glossary clarify the numerous historical, geographical, and mythological references.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814337562
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Annotations and a glossary clarify the numerous historical, geographical, and mythological references.
Jerusalem Delivered
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801863233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801863233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.
The Liberation of Jerusalem
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191567582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
'The bitter tragedy of human life— horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred. Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191567582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
'The bitter tragedy of human life— horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred. Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Godfrey of Bulloigne
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Italian Piazza Transformed
Author: Areli Marina
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271050705
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271050705
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
Tasso's Jerusalem
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Quest for Epic
Author: Sergio Zatti
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
Jerusalem Delivered
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Author: Anthony Esolen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516579
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood. As author Anthony Esolen demonstrates in this elegantly written, often wickedly funny book, almost everything we are doing to children now constricts their imaginations, usually to serve the ulterior motives of the constrictors. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child takes square aim at these accelerating trends, in a bitingly witty style reminiscent of C. S. Lewis, while offering parents—and children—hopeful alternatives. Esolen shows how imagination is snuffed out at practically every turn: in the rearing of children almost exclusively indoors; in the flattening of love to sex education, and sex education to prurience and hygiene; in the loss of traditional childhood games; in the refusal to allow children to organize themselves into teams; in the effacing of the glorious differences between the sexes; in the dismissal of the power of memory, which creates the worst of all possible worlds in school—drudgery without even the merit of imparting facts; in the strict separation of the child’s world from the adult’s; and in the denial of the transcendent, which places a low ceiling on the child’s developing spirit and mind. But Esolen doesn’t stop at pointing out the problem; he offers clear solutions as well. With charming stories from his own boyhood and an assist from the master authors and thinkers of the Western tradition, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child is a welcome respite from the overwhelming banality of contemporary culture. Interwoven throughout this indispensable guide to child rearing is a rich tapestry of the literature, music, art, and thought that once enriched the lives of American children. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child confronts contemporary trends in parenting and schooling by reclaiming lost traditions. This practical, insightful book is essential reading for any parent who cares about the paltry thing that childhood has become, and who wants to give a child something beyond the dull drone of today’s culture.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516579
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood. As author Anthony Esolen demonstrates in this elegantly written, often wickedly funny book, almost everything we are doing to children now constricts their imaginations, usually to serve the ulterior motives of the constrictors. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child takes square aim at these accelerating trends, in a bitingly witty style reminiscent of C. S. Lewis, while offering parents—and children—hopeful alternatives. Esolen shows how imagination is snuffed out at practically every turn: in the rearing of children almost exclusively indoors; in the flattening of love to sex education, and sex education to prurience and hygiene; in the loss of traditional childhood games; in the refusal to allow children to organize themselves into teams; in the effacing of the glorious differences between the sexes; in the dismissal of the power of memory, which creates the worst of all possible worlds in school—drudgery without even the merit of imparting facts; in the strict separation of the child’s world from the adult’s; and in the denial of the transcendent, which places a low ceiling on the child’s developing spirit and mind. But Esolen doesn’t stop at pointing out the problem; he offers clear solutions as well. With charming stories from his own boyhood and an assist from the master authors and thinkers of the Western tradition, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child is a welcome respite from the overwhelming banality of contemporary culture. Interwoven throughout this indispensable guide to child rearing is a rich tapestry of the literature, music, art, and thought that once enriched the lives of American children. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child confronts contemporary trends in parenting and schooling by reclaiming lost traditions. This practical, insightful book is essential reading for any parent who cares about the paltry thing that childhood has become, and who wants to give a child something beyond the dull drone of today’s culture.
Rinaldo
Author: Torquato Tasso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781599103587
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
"A dual language, facing-page, English-Italian edition of Torquato Tasso's early epic romance from the Italian Renaissance, with preface, introduction, plot summary, chronology of Tasso's life, glossary, bibliography, index and notes"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781599103587
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
"A dual language, facing-page, English-Italian edition of Torquato Tasso's early epic romance from the Italian Renaissance, with preface, introduction, plot summary, chronology of Tasso's life, glossary, bibliography, index and notes"--