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Biography

Name: 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
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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...


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All time is truly lost and gone Which is not spent in serving love Torquato Tasso ( 1544-03-11 – 1595-04-25 ) was an Italian epic poet and dramatist, best known for his Rinaldo (1562), Aminta (1573) and Gerusalemme Liberata (1580). Sourced Forse, se...


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Torquato Tasso Information
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Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between...


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Italica
Torquato Tasso. Aminta.(Book Review)
09/22/2002: 787 words, approx. 3 pages
Ed. and trans. Charles Jemingan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica, 2000. When Tasso wrote his Aminta he had no doubt that he had created a new pastoral genre. In the Renaissance the pastoral form (and its origin identifiable in the...
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The Washington Post
Torquato Tasso, a Poet Both Obscure and Ubiquitous
01/28/2007: 2,178 words, approx. 7 pages
The legacy of the great Italian poet Torquato Tasso, once considered almost a peer of Dante, is hiding in plain sight. Although he is no more than a footnote today, he was once wildly popular, quoted by philosophers, emulated by poets, and a source...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Frederick Burwick
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In the following essay, Burwick explores Goethe's utilization of dramatic tension between the rational and the irrational in Torquato Tasso.
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Critical Essay by Regina Hewitt
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In the following essay, Hewitt offers an interpretation of the outcome of Torquato Tasso, contending that the reconciliation of Tasso and Antonio fits the “atavistic cosmography at the heart of Goethe's play.”


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