| About the Editor and Translator | v | |
| Preface | ix | |
| Notes | x | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| Amadigi and Rinaldo | xi | |
| A Ruined Career | xii | |
| An Epic in Exile | xiii | |
| Filial Ambivalence | xvi | |
| Thematizing the Father | xviii | |
| Allegories of Glory and Love | xxiii | |
| Deferring Closure | xxiv | |
| Notes | xxv | |
| Bibliography | xxx | |
| Plot Summary | xxxvi | |
| Chronology: Tasso’s Origins and Early Life | xl | |
| RINALDO | 1 | |
| Canto 1 | 2 | |
| Canto 2 | 40 | |
| Canto 3 | 64 | |
| Canto 4 | 92 | |
| Canto 5 | 118 | |
| Canto 6 | 146 | |
| Canto 7 | 178 | |
| Canto 8 | 214 | |
| Canto 9 | 246 | |
| Canto 10 | 284 | |
| Canto 11 | 322 | |
| Canto 12 | 362 | |
| Notes | 400 | |
| Glossary of Mythological and Topical Allusions | 413 | |
| Index of Proper Names | 422 | |
| Appendix: Prefatory Matter from the Original Edition | 437 | |
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