EditorialTorquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1580. The Saracen sorceress Armida, sent by the king of Damascus, take some Christian knights as prisoners. Rinaldo, a soldier in the First Crusade, frees some of ...
EditorialIn 1497 Signorelli began painting the Vita of Saint Benedict da Nurcia as told by Saint Gegory. The work, 36 scenes in all, was completed 1505-1508 by Sodoma. Benedict frees a peasant, shackled by the Goths. Detail: a pageboy.