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Religious mysticism has been substituted for the refined chivalry of the Crusades, and poetry and romance have been sacrificed for classical regularity and religious orthodoxy. To any one familiar with the original, the Conquistata must be regarded as the most melancholy book in any language; a sad monument of a noble genius robbed of its power and depressed by calamity.
His immortal poem had passed beyond the reach of revision, and stamped itself too deeply upon the minds and hearts of his countrymen to be effaced by any after version. And now the Conquistata has sunk into well-merited oblivion, while the Liberata "his youthful poetical sin," as he himself called it is everywhere admired as one of the great classics of the world.
Its association with Milton's far grander work, as literary twins laid for a while in the same cradle, will always invest it with deep interest to the student. Tasso occupied himself at the same time with an altered version of his great poem, which he called the Gerusalemme Conquistata.
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