In one play by this author, the king of the Goths unwittingly marries his sister Rosmonda, causing them to commit suicide.
In one play by this author, the king of the Goths unwittingly marries his sister Rosmonda, causing them to commit suicide. One of his late poems expounds on each sign of the horoscope and compares Christ to the phoenix. In addition to writing King Torrismondo and The Creation of the World, this author completed a poem begun by his father called Amadigi, and published it as Floridante. This author's masterpiece was endlessly self-scrutinized in works like Discourse on the Heroic Poem and Apologia, and was eventually republished in a bowdlerized version dedicated to the nephew of Clement VIII. Goethe wrote a play about the madness of this author, who wrote an epic poem about the love of a witch, Armida, for the knight Rinaldo, which is set during a key event of the First Crusade. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance author of Jerusalem Delivered.
In one play by this author, the king of the Goths unwittingly marries his sister Rosmonda, causing them to commit suicide.
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