Il Conquisto di Granata

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Il Conquisto Di Granata
First edition (1650) of the Epic poem written by Girolamo Graziani "ll Conquisto di Granata".jpg
Il Conquisto di Granata - Girolamo Graziani (1650)
Author Girolamo Graziani
Original title"Il Conquisto Di Granata" Poema Heroico del signor Girolamo Gratiani
CountryItaly
Language Italian
Genre epic poem
Publisher Soliani (Italy)
Publication date
1650
Pages614
Preceded byLo Specchio della Gloria, Modena, Cassiani, 1648 
Followed byLa Gara delle Stagioni, Modena, Cassiani, 1652 

il Conquisto di Granata (The conquest of Granada) is an epic poem in 26 cantos by the Italian poet Girolamo Graziani first published in Modena in 1650. The poem tells the last year of the siege of Granada (Granada War) led by Ferdinand II of Aragon (Ferdinand The Catholic) with which ended the reconquista of the Muslim-controlled areas of the Iberian Peninsula broadly known as Al-Andalus.

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In its observance of Aristotelian rules and its religious and moral orthodoxy, the poem recalls Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered , although more space is given to love themes and to adventurous digressions, such as that on Columbus' discovery of the New World. The plot (love in the imminence of death) and the names of the main characters (Consalvo and Elvira) has been the source for Giacomo Leopardi's Consalvo (1833). The poem was ranked by Quadrio "among the best epical productions of the age." A German translation of the Conquisto was published in Nuremberg in 1834.

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