It has passed to posterity for his epic, 'La Gerusalemme liberata' (previously translated under the title The Jerusalem delivered, today Jerusalem freed), in which he depicts a highly fictionalized fighting which opposed christians to muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of JerusalemHe studied first law in Padua, but he neglected soon this study arid to indulge in poetry, and he composed from the age of ten-eight years old, a poem of chivalry, Renaud inspired by Ariosto, and who, therefore, called on him the attention. he was soon after, called to the court of Ferrara, by the reigning duke, Alfonso II he followed in France the cardinal of Este, and was extremely well received by Charles IX. Return to Ferrara, he made a play, a pastoral drama, Aminte, which has since remained without equal. He finished in his Jerusalem delivered, a vast epic tale from the history of the crusades, and who is his capital work. This poem was not first of all the welcome that he deserved, and the author's lives have to defend against obscure critical at the same time, he felt sharp vexations at the court of Ferrara, by following a passion unfortunate that he had designed for one of the sisters of the duke, the beautiful Leonora. Constantly assailed with dark thoughts, his reason went astray, and he left abruptly Ferrara without money and without purpose. He won Naples where he met a sister who tried to calm him down, and then, wandering from town to town, he went in succession to Mantua to Urbino, Turin, and found nowhere the happiness he hasarda to return to Ferrara: the duke was wroth, and had him locked up, it is said, in a madhouse, kept seven years and went back to the freedom in, on the bright solicitations of several princes of Italy and of the pope himself. The Cup stayed since in Mantua, Naples, Rome, sought after by princes and great, but without being more happy, struggling constantly against the misery, and often deprived of his reason. Despite the unjust criticisms of his envy, his genius was finally appreciated, and he had been called to Rome by pope Clement VIII, to be solemnly crowned, when he died in this town before the ceremony, in. Guests: Michel ORCEL, a translator, Frank LA BRASCA, a teacher at the Centre for higher Renaissance studies of Tours Françoise GRAZIANI, master of conference at Paris VIII Giovanni CARERI, lecturer at the EHESS, and Jean-Charles VEGLIANTE, translator, and professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. Renaud, a child, clears all the heroes christians On his forehead majestic broke out a fresh pride. All eyes are fixed on him His exploits were ahead of the age and exceeded expectations in the first few days of his spring bear fruit that others will not pick in their fall. Covered them with his armor, lightning in hand, it is the god of fighting: he takes off his helmet, it is Love.
