Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) Joanna Kirk and principal of HVE LLC

and principal of HVE LLC

Black Ephemera is a reminder that for every great leap forward there is a necessary return to the archive

Subjects were only understood in relation to the heads of household (elders and patriarchs)

''--Abraham F

as an opening to conceptual figurations yet to come

Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) Joanna Kirk and principal of HVE LLCLate in the eleventh century the First Crusade culminated in the conquest of Jerusalem by Christian armies. Five centuries later, when Torquato Tasso began to search for a subject worthy of an epic, Jerusalem was governed by a sultan, Europe was in the crisis of religious division, and the Crusades were a nostalgic memory. Tasso turned to the First Crusade both as a subject that would test his poetic ambition and as a reflection on the quandaries of