Gerusalemme Liberata continues, with a book the History Channel should dramatize. Medieval siegecraft galore! Trenches and breaches! Godfrey vs. Clorinda! Argantes and Solyman’s tag team attack! Rams, arbalests, catapults and other fun siege engines! It’s so coooooool!
Excuse me while I wipe the history buff drool off my chin.
It should be remembered that Tasso also wrote as a history buff. Siegecraft and fortress design changed greatly when gunpowder became widely available (because of explosives and cannon, more than small guns). Tasso was writing several centuries after the First Crusade. Any sieges he’d seen would have been waged with different tactics.
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