Book 4, in which Hydraotes is inspired to commit an act of treachery by Satan and his devils, inspired Milton's pandemonium in Paradise Lost.
At one point in this work, a woman learns from a eunuch that she was suckled by a tigress as an infant. Book 4, in which Hydraotes is inspired to commit an act of treachery by Satan and his devils, inspired Milton's pandemonium in Paradise Lost. In this work, Sophronia falsely confesses to having stolen a statue of the Virgin and is ordered to be executed by Aladine. It climaxes with a woman receiving a baptism from (*) Tancred just before dying. Until the advent of modernism, it was the second most popular Renaissance epic after The Faerie Queene. After the sorceress Armida seduces Rinaldo, he follows her to a magic island, thus abandoning the siege of the title city. For 10 points, name this Italian epic poem which fictionalizes the First Crusade, written by Torquato Tasso.
At one point in this work, a woman learns from a eunuch that she was suckled by a tigress as an infant.
Jerusalem Delivered [or La Gerusalemme liberata]