ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to discover some of the ways in which the faculty of sight functions in Gerusalemme liberata. In the context of narrative function, the act of looking often operates as a vehicle for providing the Reader with plot information, rather than having any particular bearing on the relationship between the seeing subject and its object. Instances of looking can be divided into the following groups: looking, directing the look, staring, spying, looking and state of mind, the woman's look as dangerous, the penetrating or fragmenting look. Staring, like directing the look, is a variation of the standard type of look represented by the first group, looking, and can be described as a prolonged, intensified version. The feature of the unseen looker, present in some instances of stare by a superior subject seeking information about an inferior object, recurs in some cases of spying.
