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.
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XIX
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 268
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 289
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 84
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 60
Torquato Tasso – Tacciono i boschi e i fiumi / The woods and the rivers fall silent
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XLII
Torquato Tasso – Se ‘l mio core è con voi / If my heart is with you
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 307
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XLIV
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XVIII
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