"From Torquato Tasso's epic 'Gerusalemme Liberata'; Persian warrior-maiden who saved the lovers and potential martyrs Olindo and Sofronia (qq.v.) from being burned at the stake by ...
[Tovább olvasom]
offering to fight for the king in the coming battle with the Crusaders. Lover of Tancred (q.v.). who by accident mortally wounded her; converted to christianism before dying." - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG151188, 10.09.2020
