Armida is the fictional character of a Saracen sorceress, created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso.

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.