Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
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Few poets have had a more anguished life than Italy's Torquato Tasso, about whom Goethe wrote his celebrated tragedy Torquato Tasso. His great chivalric epic of the Christian crusades is Jerusalem Delivered (1575). Tasso, who was a critic before he was a poet, sought to make Homer and Virgil his toon meer models and Dante his source of Christian poetic inspiration, but the resulting epic, as finally published in 1581, is a work of Petrarchan melancholy. Unlike Dante or Ariosto, Tasso did not succeed in objectifying a world in the epic manner. In celebrating the deeds of heroes, he remained subjective and lyric. The reason may be, as some have suggested, that he felt Italy was a long way from becoming a significant united nation capable of sustaining a truly epic enterprise in its literature. Forlorn in love, overwhelmed by melancholy, ever suspicious of intrigues against him, Tasso became self-critical to the point of trying to rewrite his epic to placate its severest critics. He traveled much and was several times confined as insane by patrons and friends who loved him. He died in Rome, where he had been summoned to be honored, like Petrarch, with the poet's laurel. Second to Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso's most influential literary work has been his pastoral play Aminta (1581), which has been performed and highly praised. As in his epic, the poetic voice is lyric. Some modern critics have come to believe that, with his all-pervasive lyricism, Tasso was far ahead of his times. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Torquato Tasso
Dialogues: A Selection with the "Discourse on the Art of the Dialogue" (Biblioteca Italiana) (Italian and English… (1982) 6 exemplaren
Jerusalem Libertada 4 exemplaren
L'Aminta e il Torrismondo 4 exemplaren
Rime per Lucrezia Bendidio 3 exemplaren
Tre scritti politici 3 exemplaren
Dialoghi. Tomo primo 3 exemplaren
Johan Wolfang von Goethe 3 exemplaren
Dialoghi. Tomo secondo 3 exemplaren
Tasso (2 vols. in 1) 2 exemplaren
[Opere di Torquato Tasso] 2 2 exemplaren
I quattro poeti Italiani — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
Jerusalem Delivered, Vol. I 2 exemplaren
LA JERUSALÉN LIBERADA 1 exemplaar
La Gerusalemme liberata II 1 exemplaar
La Gerusalemme liberata I 1 exemplaar
Jerusalém Libertada - ed. 1617 1 exemplaar
La Gierusalemme Liberata - ed. 1590 1 exemplaar
Il Goffredo poema eroico del signor Torquato Tasso con gli argomenti del signor Gio: Vicenzo Imperiale 1 exemplaar
Gerusalemme liberata, La 1 exemplaar
Jerusálem Libertada 1 exemplaar
La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso, con Commento di Severino Ferrari: Nuova Edizione Curata e Riveduta da Pietro… (2016) 1 exemplaar
Aminta, a cura di Claudio Varese — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
La Gerusalemme Liberata - ed. 1771 - 02 vol. 1 exemplaar
Il Goffredo : poema eroico del signor Torquato Tasso con gli argomenti del signor Gio: Vincenzo Imperiale 1 exemplaar
Gerusalemme conquistata 1 exemplaar
La Jerusalén liertada. Tomo II 1 exemplaar
The householders philosophie ; anexed, A dairie booke (The English experience, its record in early printed books… (1975) 1 exemplaar
I drammi de' boschi e delle marine, ossiano l'Aminta di Torquato Tasso, il Pastor Fido di Battista Guarini,… 1 exemplaar
Le lettere 1 exemplaar
Play God of love - play Faun "Aminta" (Iwanami Bunko) (1987) ISBN: 4003271017 [Japanese Import] 1 exemplaar
Jerusalem Delivered - two volumes - Vol.II. 1 exemplaar
La Jerusalén libertada. Tomo I 1 exemplaar
Tasso Jerusalem release (Iwanami Bunko) (2010) ISBN: 4003271025 [Japanese Import] (2010) 1 exemplaar
Gofred abo Jeruzalem wyzwolona ; [poemat] 1 exemplaar
Intrichi d'amore 1 exemplaar
Prose 1 exemplaar
Les Morales de Torqvato Tasso, Où il est traitté De La Covr. De L'Oisiveté. De La Vertv des… 1 exemplaar
Chant XVI. de la Jérusalem delivrée, mis en vers par un homme de cette ville [J.-M.-B. Clément] 1 exemplaar
Orazioni 1 exemplaar
Gioie di rime e prose 1 exemplaar
Discorsi dell'arte poetica e del poema eroico 1 exemplaar
Bellezze della Gerusalemme liberata 1 exemplaar
Gerusalemme liberata e prose scelte 1 exemplaar
Jerusalem Delivered: Volume 3 1 exemplaar
Casa Gonzaga 1 exemplaar
Opere Minori 1 exemplaar
OPERE 1 exemplaar
Sonnette an Lucrezia Bendidio 1 exemplaar
Opere. 2: Dal Rinaldo: Dalle Rime: Aminta: Il re Torrismondo: Rogo amoroso: Dal Mondo creato — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Gerusalemme liberata Aminta e Rime scelte 1 exemplaar
The housholders philosophie VVherein is perfectly and profitably described, the true oeconomia and forme of… 1 exemplaar
Scritti sull'arte poetica (Classici Ricciardi) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
La Gerusalemme liberata. E prose scelte 1 exemplaar
5: Torquato Tasso 1 exemplaar
Gerusalemme liberata vol 1 - 2 1 exemplaar
Lettere, 2 1 exemplaar
Lettere, 1 1 exemplaar
Opere con le annotazioni di vari autori 1 exemplaar
Motti e detti milanesi 1 exemplaar
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- 1544-03-11
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1595-04-25
- Graflocatie
- Chiesa di Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo, Rome, Italy
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- Italy
- Geboorteplaats
- Sorrento, Italy
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- Rome, Italy
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- Naples, Italy
Venice, Italy
Padua, Italy
Ferrara, Italy
Paris, France - Opleiding
- Padua University, Italy
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- courtier
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- Tasso, Bernardo (father)
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- Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in the Kingdom of Naples to a noble Italian family. His father Bernardo Tasso was a courtier for many years in the service of the Prince of Salerno. He was thrown into poverty and exile when his patron ran afoul of the Spanish authorities. The boy lived with his mother and his only sister in Naples and was educated by Jesuits. After his father's fall, he joined him in Rome. In 1557, Bernardo Tasso was offered a place at the court of Urbino. Young Tasso grew up among the cultivated, literary men who gathered there and became a companion of Francesco Maria della Rovere, the duke of Urbino's heir. He was subsequently sent to study law at Padua but spent most of his time on philosophy and poetry. Before the end of 1562, he had produced Rinaldo, a narrative poem. After a short period of further study at Bologna, he entered the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at the court of Duke Alfonso II d’Este of the powerful city state of Ferrara. As a young, handsome, accomplished, and well-bred gentleman, Torquato Tasso was much admired. He completed an influential play with music, Aminta, in 1573 (printed 1581) and his masterpiece, the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata, in 1574. During the years 1575-1577, Tasso's mental health declined, and he developed the persecution mania that led to stories about a restless, moody, half-mad writer with violent outbursts that have come down in history. Bad behavior got him confined to the St. Anna madhouse in Ferrara, where he lived until 1586. From there, he corresponded with princes and men of learning throughout Italy and wrote prose works on philosophical and ethical themes. Tasso left St. Anna's at the intervention of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua. Beginning in the autumn of 1587, he travelled restlessly between Mantua, Bologna, Naples, Florence, and Rome, where the pope granted him a pension and promised to make him poet laureate.
His health grew worse, and he died at age 51.
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He carries some traditions from the Greek epics but also expands upon them. I'm not quite sure why it was recommended for a course on American literature though...