Torquato Tasso
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Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, aged 22, by Jacopo Bassano
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s
Castello degli Estensi, Ferrara
Alfonso II d'Este, portrait by Girolamo da Carpi
Torquato Tasso (play)
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Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of t
Torquato Tasso
…and Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa put into music many texts from Tasso's Rime and Gerusalemme. The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a play, Torquato Tasso, in 1790, which explores the struggles of the artist. He also composed a cantata text, "Rinaldo", inspired by canto XVI of Jerusalem Delivered, later…
Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonores, by Karl Ferdinand Sohn