Du sacré chrétien au sacre de l’« amour héroïque » (F. Graziani) Variations autour du sacré représenté dans les opéras issus de la Jérusalem délivrée au xviii^e siècle

Without being a religious epic, Jérusalem délivrée offers a plural vision of the sacred. Le Tasse, depicting Armide, Herminie or Clorinde, contributes to the deconsecration of the poem so as to sanctify profane love, relayed by the spectacular confrontation between fantastic and sacred representation. The variations surrounding the sacred underlie the twin posture of chivalric hero in Jérusalem délivrée and its operas : that of the crusading knight and the bashful lover.