Tancred loses Erminia’s trail in a wood, and is tricked into stepping into a dungeon. Battle rages outside Jerusalem, and Godfrey is forced to try to take the city, putting Clorinda at risk.
Jerusalem
Armida takes her ten knights, while Erminia secretly leaves Jerusalem to minister to the wounded Tancred. She flees and becomes lost in the country, where she finds a family of shepherds.
The crusaders first sight of the Holy City, and an initial skirmish claiming the life of Dudon. Tancred falls in love with the Saracen knight Clorinda, and Armida the sorceress is sent to damage the crusaders from within.
The crusaders start their march on the Holy City of Jerusalem, going from Tartus to reach Emmaus, just as all able-bodied Christians are banished from the city by its ruler Aladine.
A mystic dies from burns after an ordeal by fire, Jerusalem is put under siege, then on 13 July they take the Holy City and start massacring its inhabitants. Few return alive to Europe.
Pope Urban II’s plan to maintain the Peace of God calls on the faithful to fight for their lives in Jerusalem. The rival People’s Crusade pillages and slaughters all non-Christians, and few survive by the time they’ve left Antioch for Jerusalem.
After the Bible and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the most popular literary source for paintings before 1900, yet hardly anyone knows this epic today. The introduction to a new series.
At his third attempt, the young Poussin made it to Rome, where he found an unusual patron who was an obsessive collector and friend of Galileo.
Review of paintings and related articles published here in the second half of 2018, starring Tintoretto, GĂ©rĂ´me. Bonnard, Schiele, and Poussin.
Tasso’s narrative is as complex and interwoven as these six leading characters, from the pious Godfrey to the scheming sorceress Armida.
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