Armida
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Armida is the fictional character of a Saracen sorceress, created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso.
Rinaldo and Armida, Gregorio Lazzarini circa 1690.
Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
The Rose from Armida's Garden by Marie Spartali Stillman (1894)
Armida by Jacques Blanchard, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes.
Torquato Tasso
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Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at
Armida
…Armida is the fictional character of a Saracen sorceress, created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso. In Tasso's epic Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: Gerusalemme liberata), Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome…
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, aged 22, by Jacopo Bassano
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s
Castello degli Estensi, Ferrara
Alfonso II d'Este, portrait by Girolamo da Carpi