Hendecasyllable
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In poetry, a hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are quantitative and used chiefly in classical poetry, and the new
A papyrus manuscript preserving Sappho's "Fragment 5", a poem using one of the Aeolic hendecasyllabics in its Sapphic stanzas
Jerusalem Delivered
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Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem, is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade
Hendecasyllable
…the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, owing to strong Italian literary influence. It was used by Jan Kochanowski, Piotr Kochanowski (who translated Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso), Sebastian Grabowiecki, Wespazjan Kochowski and Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. The greatest Polish Romantic poet, Adam Mickiewicz…
Armida Discovers the Sleeping Rinaldo by Nicolas Poussin (1629). Cupid restrains her from stabbing her enemy.
Rinaldo and Armida in her garden, by François Boucher
Clorinda attacks Tancredi, one of a series by Paolo Domenico Finoglia
Erminia discovers the wounded Tancred, by Guercino (1619).