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Gerusalemme liberata
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(1581).
Epic poem in twenty cantos by Torquato Tasso, based on the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099. It describes successive stages of the siege, including the election ...
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Torquato Tasso (1544—1595) Italian poet
