vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem in the First Book owes something to Rinaldo's morning vision in Canto 18 of Gerusalemme. In the twelfth canto of Book Two, Spenser's enchantress Acrasia is partly modelled on Tasso's Armida, and the English poet directly imitated two stanzas from the Italian. The portrayal of Satan and the demons in the first two books of Milton's Paradise Lost is also indebted to Tasso's poem. The first attempt to translate Gerusalemme liberata into English was made by Richard Carew, who published his version of the first five cantos as Godfrey of Bulloigne or the recoverie of Hierusalem in 1594. More significant was the complete rendering by Edward Fairfax which appeared in 1600 and has been acclaimed as one of the finest English verse translations. (There is also an eighteenth-century translation by John Hoole, and there are modern versions by Anthony Esolen and Max Wickert.) Tasso's poem remained popular among educated English readers and was, at least until the end of the 19th century, considered one of the supreme achievements of Western literature. Somewhat eclipsed in the Modernist period, its fame is showing signs of recovering. It seems to have remained in the curriculum, formal or informal, for girls, in times when it was not taught at boys' schools. The English critic George Saintsbury (1845–1933) recorded that "Every girl from Scott's heroines to my own sisters seem to have been taught Dante and Petrarch and Tasso and even Ariosto, as a matter of course." Works based on Music and operas Madrigals La Gerusalemme Liberata by Giaches de Wert (c. 1595) Ballet de la Delivrance de Renaud by Pierre Guedron (Paris, 1617) Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) from his eighth book of madrigals Le lagrime d'Erminia song-cycle by Biagio Marini (Parma, after 1620) Il Tancredi by Girolamo Giacobbi (Bologna, before 1629) Erminia sul Giordano by Michelangelo Rossi (Rome, 1633) Armida by Benedetto Ferrari (Venice, 1639) music lost Armida by Marco Marazzoli (Ferrara, 1641) Armide by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Paris, 1686) La Gerusalemme liberata by Carlo Pallavicino (Venice, 1687) Gli avvenimenti di Erminia e di Clorinda by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (Venice, 1693) music lost Amori di Rinaldo con Armida by Teofilo Orgiani (Brescia, 1697) music lost Tancrède by André Campra (Paris, 1702) Suite d'Armide ou Jerusalem Delivree by Philippe II duke of Orleans (Fontainebleau, 1704) Armida abbandonata by Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (Venice, 1707) Armida abbandonata by