Il Conquisto di Granata


il Conquisto di Granata 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 led by Ferdinand II of Aragon with which ended the reconquista of the Muslim-controlled areas of the Iberian Peninsula broadly known as Al-Andalus. The poem has a digression which depicts Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World.

Curiosity

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 and the names of the main characters has been the source for Giacomo Leopardi's Consalvo. 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.

Editions

  • Modena, Soliani, 1650 in -4°
  • Napoli, Molo, 1651 in -12°
  • Parigi, chez le Sieur des Rotieurs, 1654, 2 Tomi, in -12°
  • Milano, Filippo Ghisolfi, 1666
  • Bologna, Manolessi, 1670 in -24°
  • Venezia, Combi e la Noù, 1684 in -12°
  • Venezia, Zatta, 1768
  • Colle Pacini, Eusebio, 1816, 2 Voll. in -12°
  • In: Il Parnaso Italiano edited by A.Peretti e A.Cappelli, Antonelli, Venezia, 1832-1851, Volume II, pages XII+328