Torquato Tasso
Nato il 11 marzo 1544 a Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples [now Campania, Italy]. Deceduto il 26 aprile 1595.
Biografia
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 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 of 1099. Tasso ha...
