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Jerusalem delivered : an English prose version / by Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Chronology of the Life of Tasso -- Introduction -- Jerusalem Delivered -- THE ARGUMENT OF THE POEM -- Canto One -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO ONE -- Canto Two -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO TWO -- Canto Three -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO THREE -- Canto Four -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO FOUR -- Canto Five -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO FIVE -- Canto Six -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO SIX -- Canto Seven -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO SEVEN -- Canto Eight -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO EIGHT -- Canto Nine -- THE ARGUMENT -- CANTO NINE -- Canto Ten…”
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Jerusalem delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) / by Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

Table of Contents: “…Jerusalem Delivered --…”
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Jerusalem delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) / by Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

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Jerusalem delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) / by Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

The book of the prophet Isaiah, chapters 1-39 / CBC

Table of Contents: “…The place of the book in the Old Testament -- The life and times of the prophet -- Prophecy -- The message of Isaiah -- The structure of Isaiah 1-39 -- The text -- Judah arraigned -- The call of Isaiah -- Prophecies during the Syro-Ephraimite war -- Prophecies addressed to Israel -- Prophecies relating to foreign nations -- The Lord's judgement on the earth -- The deliverance and ingathering of Judah -- Assyria and Judah -- Edom and Israel -- Jerusalem delivered from Sennacherib.…”

Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe by Hampton, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.…”
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