 Yet the commanding qualities of this epic poem, those which revealed Tasso's individuality, and which made it immediately pass into the rank of classics, beloved by the people no less than by persons of culture, are akin to the lyrical graces of "Aminta".In the "Gerusalemme Liberata", as in the "Rinaldo", Tasso aimed at ennobling the Italian epic style by preserving strict unity of plot and heightening poetic diction.He chose Virgil for his model, took the first crusade for subject, infused the fervor of religion into his conception of the hero, Godfrey.