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Archive for November 9th, 2006

Gerusalemme Liberata continues as Clorinda and Tancred meet again — and not as lovers, by any means. No, it’s a nasty brutish fight in the dark which neither one may survive!

Book 12, Part 2

26:36.

I can’t emphasize enough how realistic the description of this fight scene was. Clearly, Fairfax knew something about tournament fighting and melees, even if this sort of thing didn’t happen anymore in real warfare in his day and Tasso’s.

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