Folco Zanobini

Stories of Warriors and Sweethearts at the Holy Crusade: Adaptation of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (Xenia) Folco Zanobini

The First Crusade to the Holy Land, transformed by the imagination and religious fervor of an Italian gentleman of the late sixteenth century. A mission of war armed protagonists, watched over by angelical and diabolical forces, interrupted by adventures, enchantments, love stories, unexpected transgressions. In Tassos world, dedication to a cause is always something extreme and fatal; love is characterized by unhappiness and defeat (Erminia, Tancredi, Clorinda) and the war is ferociousness without either pity or a solution.