#gerusalemme liberata

[artemlegere]

Rinaldo and Armida

Artist: Antonio Zucchi, RA (Italian, 1726-1796)

Date: 1773

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, United Kingdom

Description

A classical scene from Tasso, II Canto 17 – 20, with lovers under a tree and two soldiers behind them, the reflective mirror has been casted aside. In the background are the two Danish Knights, who are about to persuade Rinaldo to quit Armida. One of a set of six over-door paintings by Antonio Zucchi, previously, erroneously, attributed to Angelica Kauffman.

A scene from Torquato Tasso's epic poem, Gerusalemme liberata (1581) and inspired by Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. The sorceress Armida has been sent to stop the Christians and is about to murder the First Crusade soldier, Rinaldo, but instead she falls in love. She creates an enchanted garden where she holds him a lovesick prisoner. Eventually two of his fellow Crusaders find him and hold a shield to his face, so he can see his image and remember who he is.

[machiavelli]

[hercorrupterofwords]

clorinda my beloved

[indigogh0st]

Work in progress of the death of Clorinda, from Jerusalem Delivered. I’m not that fond of my previous version ahaha

[tragediambulante]

Erminia discovering the wounded Tancred, Guercino, 1618

[swallowtail-ageha]

He was a Gerusalemme Liberata boy and she was an Orlando Furioso girl, do i need to say more?

[kalymma]

[…] Vede Tancredi in maggior copia il sangue del suo nemico, e sé non tanto offeso. Ne gode e superbisce. Oh nostra folle mente ch’ogn’aura di fortuna estolle!

Misero, di che godi? Oh quanto mesti fiano i trionfi ed infelice il vanto! Gli occhi tuoi pagheran (se in vita resti) di quel sangue ogni stilla un mar di pianto. […]

Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata, XII, 58-59 (1581)

[lesbian-steppenwolf]

this is terrible la mia docente di letteratura italiana vuole focalizzarsi sul cinquecento e tasso

[eresia-catara]

allora io nel 2021-22 mi appassiono a guido. esce dante 2022.

mi appassiono a machiavelli e quel periodo lì. esce la serie Leonardo.

a natale ricevo le operette morali di Leopardi. esce Leopardi il poeta dell'infinito.

inizio a leggere il conte di montecristo e

??????

AM I CURSED OR WHAG

[apis-vergilii]

CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP

not apologizing for the melodramatic subplot that has bubbled up like volcanic spew, I am a victim of my own narrative

this is the most cringe thing i've done in years and i am thrivinggggg

[valentina-lauricella]

L'insostenibile peso dell'assenza

nel valore intrinseco della parte

rispetto al tutto e al possibile.

Emilio Isgrò, Virgola tratta dalla « Gerusalemme liberata » di Torquato Tasso, 1972 [Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Museion, Bolzano-Bozen. Beni culturali in Alto Adige, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige. © Emilio Isgrò. Photo: Ludwig Thalheimer / Lupe]

[machiavelli]

NOT MY MOM SAYING IM CHEATING ON GASPARA WITH TASSO????? I WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO HER. IM A LOYAL-

[hercorrupterofwords]

alieno de la rappresentante di lista è stata scritta per armida, me l'ha detto tasso

[mishkakagehishka]

I want you all to know that i have no idea what hnk the manga stands for so every time you put it on my dash i read it as hrvatsko narodno kazalište (croatian national theatre)

[tragediambulante]

Rinaldo and Armida, Nicolas Poussin, 1628-30

[wolfie-wolfgang]

Going to Naples and Sorrento - on an Italian opera trail.

Watching Mount Vesuvius from Sorrento, across the Bay of Naples, I thought of Pliny the Younger (born 61 AD), as you do, who wrote a detailed description of the catastrophic eruption of the volcano (79 AD) that killed his uncle, the great Roman naturalist, Pliny the Elder, who sailed into the disaster because he was interested in the science of volcanoes. Pliny the younger watched the destruction…