Jerusalem Delivered

Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento, Italy on 11th March 1544. He was sent to study law at Padua. However the young Tasso placed all his attention in philosophy and poetry. By 1562 he had written his twelve-canto epic poem; ‘Rinaldo’. Tasso had begun work on his epic ‘Jerusalem Delivered’ in the mid-1560s under its original title ‘Il Goffredo’. It was completed in April, 1575. A pirated edition of 14 cantos derived from the poem appeared in Venice in 1580. The first complete editions of ‘Gerusal