[Poetry]. (Wiffen, J. H., translator).

The Jersalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso; Translated into English Spenserian verse with a life of the author

New York: D. Appleton, 1850. Second American edition from the last English edition. Original Embossed Brown Cloth w/gilt pictorial. 12 mo (5 X 7), pp. 624, illustrated w/engravings, frontspiece engraving of Tasso. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) has been called the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, best remembered for his masterpiece LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA (Jerusalem Delivered, 1575). Very Good. Item #3209

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