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Tasso

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Tas·so  (ts, täs), Torquato 1544-1595.
Italian poet who wrote the epic Jerusalem Delivered (1581), an account of the capture of the city during the First Crusade.
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Noun1.TassoTasso - Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595)
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One thinks of Dante at the bitter feast in Verona, of Tasso in Ferrara's madman's cell.
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