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Gerusalemme Liberata is a fictionalized version of the Crusades. Godfrey of Bouillon is on a mission from God to free Jerusalem from the oppressive foreign regime which holds it. He’s got a few good men like Tancredi, a few good teenagers like Rinaldo, and even a few good battlemaids.
It’s fifty miles to Jerusalem, it’s bright outside, and they’re wearing helmet visors. Let’s go!
August 11, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I have a marble bust of Tasso in my office. (Picture the Beethoven on Schroeder’s piano.) My mother-in-law found it in an antique shop some twenty years ago and thought it belonged in my possession.