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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historical portrait, and that is true tragedy. 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. One thinks of Dante at the bitter feast in Verona, of Tasso in Ferrara's madman's cell. |
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