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Tasso, Torquato <1544-1595>
Person
Dates 1544-1595
Country ITALY Language (en) Italiano
Author of 543 resources
is subject of 4 resources
1544-1595 // Poeta. Nato a Sorrento (NA) e morto a Roma.

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. 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.
Bibliografia nazionale italiana: nuova serie del bollettino delle pubblicazioni italiane ricevute per diritto di stampa a cura della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. A. 1, n. 1 (gen. 1958)- Firenze, Centro nazionale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche, 1958- (CDROM
Censimento delle edizioni italiane del secolo XVI. Roma, ICCU: http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/
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