Argante, Solimano, Tisaferno, excite our interest, and win the sympathy we cannot spare the saintly hero; and in the death of Solimano Tasso's style, for once, verges upon tragic sublimity.
What Tasso aimed at in the _Gerusalemme_ was nobility.

This quality had not been prominent in Ariosto's art.

If he could attain it, his ambition to rival the _Orlando Furioso_ would be satisfied.

One main condition of success Tasso brought to the achievement.

His mind itself was eminently noble, incapable of baseness, fixed on fair and worthy objects of contemplation.