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Clorinda

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Clorinda
Amazonian, battles in armor. [Ital. Lit.: Jerusalem Delivered]
See : Bravery


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One only has to call to mind the battle scene in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and the triplet figures in Franz Schubert's Erlkonig for clear reminders of this stereotypical musical gesture.
Finucci uses the birth of a white daughter, Clorinda, to Ethiopian parents in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata as a focus for a broader examination of beliefs about how maternal imagination could form and deform a child and also suggests an intriguing rereading of one of the famous scenes in literature, the tragic death of Clorinda in the Liberata.
Most affected localities were Clorinda (Formosa Province, 25[degrees]S, 57[degrees]W), with an incidence of 12.
 
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