Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso – Tacciono i boschi e i fiumi / The woods and the rivers fall silent

Franz Von Stuck, Evening star, c. 1912 The woods and the rivers fall silent, and the sea without waves rests, in the caverns, the winds have truce and peace, and in the dark of night  the white moon forms noble silence; and we keep hidden the sweetness of love: Love does not speak or breathe, …

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Torquato Tasso – Se ‘l mio core è con voi / If my heart is with you

Alessandro Varotari, called Padovanino (1588 – 1648), Venus And Mars If my heart is with you, as it wishes, where is my soul? I believe it is with thought: and the wandering thought is with the beautiful image; and the beautiful image of your beauty is in the mind alive and true and present and …

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Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet, best known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1581). Tasso suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by the Pope.