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Torquato Tasso

Also known as Torcuato Tasso

Italian poet (1544–1595)

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Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the Renaissance period (1544–1595) best known for his epic poem *Jerusalem Delivered*, which became one of the most influential works of European literature. His life was marked by both literary brilliance and personal struggles with mental illness, making him an important figure in understanding both Renaissance poetry and the human costs of artistic creation.

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Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples [now Campania, Italy]

Torquato Tasso 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…

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Italy
Place of birth: Sorrento
Place of death: Rome
Father: Bernardo Tasso
Occupation: prose writer
Educated at: University of Padua
Languages spoken: Latin
Religion: Catholic Church
Notable work: Aminta
Field of work: philosophy
Genre: sonnet
Movement: Mannerism
Image: Torquato Tasso, aged 22, by Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano (cropped).jpg

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place of burial: Sant'Onofrio
Commons gallery: Torquato Tasso
Commons category: Torquato Tasso
date of birth: 1544-03-11
date of death: 1595-05-25
topic's main category: Category:Torquato Tasso
Commons Creator page: Torquato Tasso
present in work: Small Moral Works
has works in the collection: National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina
name in native language: Torquato Tasso
start of work period: 1562-00-00
P8168: Avro 557 Ava
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
P13311: Sainte-Marie

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Torquato Tasso, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Aminta [Texto impreso]

Ierusalem libertada

L' Aminta di Torquato Tasso ed Il pastor fido di G. B. Guarini coll'analisi di P. L. Ginguene

Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda : 1st batch; 2. Game/(Claudio Monteverdi)

La Gerusalemme Liberata. Con Annotazioni

Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda: (5th game)/Claudio Monteverdi

Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda: (4th game)/Claudio Monteverdi

Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda: (3rd game)/Claudio Monteverdi

Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda: (6th game)/Claudio Monteverdi

Rime di diversi autori

Copie di lettere di T. Tasso, di G. Coccapani e di Scipione Gonzaga a Luca Scalabrini. Parzialmente autografo di L.A. Muratori (s.d.)

Aminta

Gerusalemme liberata

Aminta favola boscareccia di Torquato Tasso con le annotationi d'Egidio Menagio ..

L 'Aminta Favola boschereccia

Il Goffredo, ouero Gierusalemme liberata

Il secretario et il primo volume delle lettere familiari

Delle opere di Torquato Tasso con le controversie sopra la Gerusalemme liberata .. volume duodecimo

Gerusalemme liberata

La Gierusalemme liberata

Discorsi del poema heroico, del s. Torquato Tasso

Il Goffredo del s. Torquato Tasso

Il secondo volume delle lettere familiari

La Gierusalemme

Hierosolyma vindicata, seu Heroicum poema Torquati Tassi

La Gerusalemme liberata poema epico

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Encyclopedic overview

Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s 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 1581 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 a 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.

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