Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso

Biography Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595)

Italian poet

Was born on 11 mar 1544.
Died on 25 apr 1595, at 51 years old.
Origin country Italy
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Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1580), 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.

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