Torquato Tasso | |
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.jpg) Portrait of Torquato Tasso, aged 22, by Jacopo Bassano | |
| Born | 11 March 1544 Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples |
| Died | 25 April 1595 (aged 51) Rome, Papal States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Italian |
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| Literary movement | Renaissance literature, Mannerism |
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Torquato Tasso (/ˈtæsoʊ/ TASS-oh, also US: /ˈtɑːsoʊ/ 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.[1] 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.[2]
- ^ Symonds 1911, pp. 445–446.
- ^ Solerti, A. (1895). Vita di Torquato Tasso. Torino.