Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
Autore di Gerusalemme liberata
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Torquato Tasso
Dialogues: A Selection with the "Discourse on the Art of the Dialogue" (Biblioteca Italiana) (Italian and English… (1982) 6 copie
Jerusalem Libertada 4 copie
L'Aminta e il Torrismondo 4 copie
Rime per Lucrezia Bendidio 3 copie
Tre scritti politici 3 copie
Dialoghi. Tomo primo 3 copie
Johan Wolfang von Goethe 3 copie
Dialoghi. Tomo secondo 3 copie
Tasso (2 vols. in 1) 2 copie
[Opere di Torquato Tasso] 2 2 copie
I quattro poeti Italiani — Autore — 2 copie
Gerusalemme Liberata I 2 copie
LA JERUSALÉN LIBERADA 1 copia
La Gerusalemme liberata II 1 copia
La Gerusalemme liberata I 1 copia
Jerusalém Libertada - ed. 1617 1 copia
Gerusalemme liberata, La 1 copia
Jerusálem Libertada 1 copia
La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso, con Commento di Severino Ferrari: Nuova Edizione Curata e Riveduta da Pietro… (2016) 1 copia
Aminta, a cura di Claudio Varese — Autore — 1 copia
Gerusalemme conquistata 1 copia
La Jerusalén liertada. Tomo II 1 copia
The householders philosophie ; anexed, A dairie booke (The English experience, its record in early printed books… (1975) 1 copia
Le lettere 1 copia
Play God of love - play Faun "Aminta" (Iwanami Bunko) (1987) ISBN: 4003271017 [Japanese Import] 1 copia
La Jerusalén libertada. Tomo I 1 copia
Intrichi d'amore 1 copia
Prose 1 copia
Les Morales de Torqvato Tasso, Où il est traitté De La Covr. De L'Oisiveté. De La Vertv des… 1 copia
Chant XVI. de la Jérusalem delivrée, mis en vers par un homme de cette ville [J.-M.-B. Clément] 1 copia
Orazioni 1 copia
Gioie di rime e prose 1 copia
Jerusalem Delivered: Volume 3 1 copia
Casa Gonzaga 1 copia
Opere Minori 1 copia
OPERE 1 copia
Sonnette an Lucrezia Bendidio 1 copia
Opere. 2: Dal Rinaldo: Dalle Rime: Aminta: Il re Torrismondo: Rogo amoroso: Dal Mondo creato — Autore — 1 copia
Scritti sull'arte poetica — Autore — 1 copia
5: Torquato Tasso 1 copia
Gerusalemme liberata vol 1 - 2 1 copia
Lettere, 2 1 copia
Lettere, 1 1 copia
Motti e detti milanesi 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1544-03-11
- Data di morte
- 1595-04-25
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Chiesa di Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo, Rome, Italy
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Italy
- Luogo di nascita
- Sorrento, Italy
- Luogo di morte
- Rome, Italy
- Luogo di residenza
- Naples, Italy
Venice, Italy
Padua, Italy
Ferrara, Italy
Paris, France - Istruzione
- Padua University, Italy
- Attività lavorative
- courtier
poet - Relazioni
- Tasso, Bernardo (father)
- Breve biografia
- 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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