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Torquato Tasso

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Noun1.Torquato Tasso - Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595)Torquato Tasso - Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595)


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When he said that Milton's masque Comus "is as far superior to The Faithful Shepherdess as The Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido," he assumed readers would recall these three works as having been created by, respectively, John Fletcher (1579-1625), Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), and Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612).
Un mare turbatissimo: la vita di Torquato Tasso ripercosa attaverso le lettere.
Torquato Tasso lived in an era profoundly influenced by the Catholic church and perceptions of religious difference, and his carefully selected subject of Christianity battling Islam is a conflict with a long history and reverberations that still persist today.
 
 
 
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