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What a surprise this was for me. After reading Ariosto, I was told that this should be my next book. I was taken in by not only the narrative, but how elegantly the prose read. For those who love intense battles, romance, heroes, villains, femme fatales, magic, devils and angels, you will love this story. It has it all. I also found it less sprawling than Orlando Furioso, so it is easier to keep up with the action and characters between reads. Of course it is very politically incorrect by today's standards, but if it is read as great literature and not as advice on foreign policy, then by all means enjoy this neglected gem.Product details
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Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 9781492702450 Books Reviews
This is not, strictly speaking, a book. It is a print-out of a computer file made from scanning an unnamed edition of Tasso's masterwork. As such, it is rife with inexplicable scanning and formatting errors, none corrected, all disclaimed in the disingenuous "foreword."
Some examples
> from p. 128 (Canto 9) "Tne raging floods that trees and rocks downcast, vier that towns and towers drive to
dust, . ti r-? ie world in twain that threat,
He struck no blow tmt that his foe he hit, Ai d never hit but made a grievous wound,
And never wounded but death followed it; And yet no harm he found; r4o weapon on hi d helmet bit,
No puissant i fs once astound,
Yet like a bell hii helmet rung,
And thence flev e and sparks among.
Himself we'! Hijyht,
A jolly cut,
Wh- aps to fight.
Covering likt out"
> from p. 209 (Canto 15) "TASM KEBUKEO I te' fe OF THE DUKE il Hlsws.so. that tender, soft and plain,
From a Painting tya p ti 9 Ofi V fld been, one coior never long remain, v. hance their
hue 'gainst glimpse of Phoebus sheen; And m, w of moies bright a vermeil chain, f r
=v.-akr a-arknet rich of emeralds green; oofh. now alter, turn and change rhoussmd
colors, rich, pure, fair, and strange.
";! n- boa i, you happy men,' she says, wt through raging waves secure I ride; ; t,
storm, and wind obeys, a Hght, benign is stream and tide. rtf, tmt rule your journeys
and your ways,."
There is NO table of contents and some of the chapter (Canto) headings are completely missing.
Don't waste your money on this. Buy yourself a decent edition.
Excellent modern day translation in a language which is fluid and comprehensible.
Anthony Esolen does it again to bring us a powerfully translated and edited poem, originally in Latin, now for the modern reader. This is a dark and brooding poem that was written by Torquato Tasso when he was slowly going mad. His fixation was on the subject of the first Crusade to free Jerusalem from the Moslems, which was led by Godfrey of Bouillon and the peers of France. This was a subject of Tasso's interest since he was an 18 year old boy,who published a poem about Rinaldo, one of the key figures in the current story. Tasso eventually extensively revised "Gerusalemme liberata", removing its amorous portions to publish "Gerusalemme conquistada" at age 49. The darkness of the original poem is tempered by the love stories, but it remains a violent story with a concentration on the horrors of war and of love also. For example, in the middle of the story of an intense battle, Soliman, the powerful Turkish sultan, sees his young page cut down "Sees how the trembling eyes so gracefully shut, and the neck falls limp, as if in sleep; so sweet the whiteness of his face, so sweet the pity his dying semblance breathes, that deep in his then-stony heart something grew soft and the spring burst through his anger he must weep. You, Soliman weeping...who stood by while your realm was destroyed, and your eyes dry. But when he sees the enemy's sword still slick and steaming with the blood of the young lad, pity gives way to anger boiling quick and all the tears within his heart are dead"(Canto 9, #86-87). The contrast of darkness and jumping-out vividness in the story cause Esolen to refer to Tasso as a Caravaggio of poetry, an apt comparison. Although the story gets off to a traditionally slow start, it builds to a fever pitch and you suddenly are hit by what makes this a great poem. The poem is divided into 20 songs or Cantos for a total of 396 pages, complemented by an erudite Introduction and a discussion at the end of the book about the use of allegory, a list of the cast of characters, and 47 pages of notes that help to put the story into literary perspective. I recommend just reading the poem first, and then consulting the notes, since sometimes too much of the overall plot is revealed in a brief description of the characters or in the notes.
The original must be an astonishing work! Fierce battles, passionate romance, stirring orations, even scenes of cosmic splendor succeed one another; there's the sense of real genius here, of an artist who is fulfilling his intention. This translation reads very, very well indeed. A remarkably satisfying book.
C. S. Lewis relished this epic poem -- see his essay "Tasso" in his book of essays on medieval and Renaissance literature. I wonder if Tolkien also had read it, as a number of scenes reminded me of the Siege of Minas Tirith, etc. For those who want to move on from the authors and works that everyone knows influenced and/or impressed Lewis (and Tolkien?) such as Chesterton, George MacDonald, et al., Tasso may be recommended. I wonder if Lewis didn't get the idea for the severed head, of the criminal Alcasan, who seems to speak, but is really manipulated by a devil, and which the heroine of That Hideous Strength sees in a dream, from Tasso, where a Fury from hell makes a severed head talk (deceivingly) in a dream to one of the Christian warriors. The gruesome descriptions are similar, and Lewis even calls Alcasan "the Saracen"; and Alcasan certainly could be the name of one of the Saracen knights in Tasso. Who knows...?
A pleasurably simple translation that makes the story near and the language a conduit rather than a barrier. This is the translation you want to purchase! I know because I went through more than one.
What a surprise this was for me. After reading Ariosto, I was told that this should be my next book. I was taken in by not only the narrative, but how elegantly the prose read. For those who love intense battles, romance, heroes, villains, femme fatales, magic, devils and angels, you will love this story. It has it all. I also found it less sprawling than Orlando Furioso, so it is easier to keep up with the action and characters between reads. Of course it is very politically incorrect by today's standards, but if it is read as great literature and not as advice on foreign policy, then by all means enjoy this neglected gem.
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