Torquato Tasso - Jérusalem délivrée - 1774

Rare two-volume illustrated set that tells, blending history, religion, heroism and wonder, the First Crusade and the struggle of Christian knights to retake Jerusalem -

Composed by Torquato Tasso, called The Tasso, the work draws on the crusade led at the end of the 11th century under the leadership of Godfrey of Bouillon, presented as the head of the Christian armies tasked with liberating the Holy City -

Throughout the narrative, battles, military strategies and rivalries among warriors intertwine with romantic passions, moral hesitations and interventions of supernatural forces that influence the course of events -

Godfrey of Bouillon embodies the authority, discipline and faith necessary to accomplish the collective mission, while figures such as Renaud and Tancrède illustrate the tensions between chivalric duty, personal desire and fidelity to the Christian cause -

Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered - 1774 - Volume I and II - Musier Fils -
viii-341 -328-(4) Pages.

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their full period calf marbled leather, wear from use, some minor defects on boards and spines, nicks on headbands, corners worn, speckled edges, spine with gilt tooling, lozenges of florals, gilded titles and volume numbers on a morocco piece, boards adorned with gilded borders -

Good interior condition, browning, lovely vignette on title page, pretty headbands, volumes enriched with numerous engravings in black both within and outside the text, marble endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy -

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