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Torquato Tasso | | Birth Date: |
March 11, 1544 | | Death Date: |
April 25, 1595 | | Place of Birth: |
Sorrento, Italy | | Place of Death: |
Rome, Italy | | Nationality: |
Italian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, author |
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 Biography of Torquato Tasso
1413 words, approx. 4.7 pages
 The Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), author of "Gerusalemme liberata," the greatest epic poem written in Italian, was the finest poet of his time. Torquato Tasso born on March 11, 1544, was the son of Bernardo Tasso, a member of the Bergamasque n...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Jerusalem Delivered Information
1,063 words, approx. 4 pages
Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) (1580) is a baroque epic poem by Italian poet Torquato Tasso which tells a largely fictionalized version of the First Crusade in which Christians knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order...
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 The Boston Globe In Jerusalem, Pope Delivers Message Of Coexistence
03/22/2000: 844 words, approx. 3 pages JERUSALEM - Pope John Paul II's historic pilgrimage through the "history of salvation" arrived yesterday in this ancient city revered as holy by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The spiritual significance embodied in the stone ramparts of Jerusalem's Old City has also made it... summary from source:
The Virginia Quarterly Review Jerusalem Delivered/Gerusalemme liberata
04/01/2001: 157 words, approx. 1 pages Jerusalem Delivered/Gerusalemme liberata, by Torquato Tasso, edited and translated by Anthony M. Esolen. Tasso's epic, Jerusalem Delivered, has not undergone as many translations as his Latin predecessors. In fact, it is not very often that Tasso makes the required reading list for either...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Andrew Fichter
16,670 words, approx. 56 pages
In the following essay, Fichter calls Gerusalemme liberata. “a true Christian epic,” based on the theme of redemption.
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Critical Essay by Dennis Looney
15,124 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following essay, Looney claims that Tasso uses an episode in Gerusalemme liberata concerning a source of water as an allegory of his own use of literary sources.
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Critical Essay by C. P. Brand
13,998 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Brand argues that Gerusalemme liberata is a “fusion of the heroic epic and the chivalrous romance” and that Tasso's style attempts to follow the classical precedents set by Homer and Virgil.
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