Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso ( , , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem "Gerusalemme liberata" (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.