Rinaldo: A New English Verse Translation with Facing Italian Text, Critical Introduction and Notes by Torquato Tasso

Rinaldo: A New English Verse Translation with Facing Italian Text, Critical Introduction and Notes

Torquato Tasso with Max Wickert (Translator)

494 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary challenging medium-paced
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Torquato Tasso, at the age of eighteen, composed his first epic poem, "Rinaldo." It combines romantic epic -- a form popularized by Italian masters like Boiardo and Ariosto -- with classical influences from Virgil and Aristotle. Despite Tasso's yo...

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