Torquato Tasso
Who is Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( TASS-oh, also US: TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.
Tasso had mental illness and died a few days before he was to be crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by Pope Clement VIII. His work was widely translated and adapted, and until the beginning of the 20th century, he remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe.
Biography
Early life
Born in Sorrento, Torquato was the son of Bernardo Tasso...
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Torquato Tasso Poems
- Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 02
XI
But when the angry king discovered not
What guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,
His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hot
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- To His Mistress In Absence
FAR from thy dearest self, the scope
Of all my aims,
I waste in secret flames;
And only live because I hope.
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- Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 05
LVI
Guascher and Raiphe in valor like there was.
The one and other Guido, famous both,
Germer and Eberard to overpass,
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- Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 06
LXXI
Aurora bright her crystal gates unbarred,
And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun,
When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard,
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- Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 06
LXVI
"True labour in the vineyard of thy Lord,
Ere prime thou hast the imposed day-work done,
What armies conquered, perished with thy sword?
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- Amitmajmudar: my hotel in sorrento is literally next door to this statue of torquato tasso and is on the piazza tasso
i happened to reread jerusalem delivered just last year! goethe wrote a play about him. a boutique called aminta (after an early pastoral work of his) is just down the street
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