12/76 28, 33.] The episode of Floriana, while closely studied upon the Aeneid, is also a first sketch for that of Armida. Indeed, it should be said in passing that Tasso anticipates the _Gerusalemme_ throughout the _Rinaldo_. The murder of Anselmo by Rinaldo (Canto XI.) forecasts the murder of Gernando by his namesake, and leads to the same result of the hero's banishment. The shipwreck, the garden of courtesy, the enchanted boat, and the charmed forest, are motives which reappear improved and elaborated in Tasso's masterpiece.[68] While Tasso thus sought to heighten diction by Latinisms, he revealed another specific quality of his manner in _Rinaldo_. |