Question
This author supposedly used the gleam of his cat’s eyes to write at night, since he couldn’t afford candles. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Italian author, best known for an epic poem in which the warrior-maiden Clorinda dramatically converts to Christianity after being fatally injured during a night battle at the title city’s gates.
ANSWER: Torquato Tasso
[10e] Clorinda appears in a Tasso epic titled for “[this city] Delivered.” A William Blake poem titled for this Holy City opens, “And did those feet in ancient time / Walk upon England’s mountains green.”
ANSWER: Jerusalem [accept Jerusalem Delivered or The Liberation of Jerusalem or La Gerusalemme Liberata]
[10m] This author of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and Elective Affinities wrote most of his play Torquato Tasso while journeying to Italy in the 1780s.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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