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Tasso

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Tasso
Torquato . 1544--95, Italian poet, noted for his pastoral idyll Aminta (1573) and for Jerusalem Delivered (1581), dealing with the First Crusade


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Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historical portrait, and that is true tragedy.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
and he then related to Raoul the story of the bastion, and Raoul fancied he was listening to one of those deeds of arms belonging to days of chivalry, so gloriously recounted by Tasso and Ariosto.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
One thinks of Dante at the bitter feast in Verona, of Tasso in Ferrara's madman's cell.
The Soul of Man under Socialism by Wilde, Oscar View in context
 
 
 
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