2).
Non temo io te, ne tuoi gran vanti, o fero: Ma il Cielo e il mio nemico amor pavento (xix.

73).
It may, however, be observed that in the last of these passages Tasso does not show a just discriminative faculty.

Turnus said: Non me tua fervida terrent Dicta, ferox: Di me terrent et Jupiter hostis.
From Jupiter to Amor is a descent from sublimity to pathos.

In like manner when Hector's ghost reappears in the ghost of Armida's mother, Quanto diversa, oime, da quel che pria Visto altrove (iv.

49), the reminiscence suggests ideas that are unfavorable to the modern version.
In his description of battles, the mustering of armies, and military operations, Tasso neither draws from mediaeval sources nor from experience, but imitates the battle-pieces of Virgil and Lucan, sometimes with fine rhetorical effect and sometimes with wearisome frigidity.