Italian writers of collections of dialogues, following Plato's model, include Torquato Tasso ( 1586 ), Galileo ( 1632 ), Galiani ( 1770 ), Leopardi ( 1825 ), and a host of others.

The Renaissance literary men and poets Torquato Tasso ( author of Jerusalem Delivered ), Ludovico Ariosto ( author of the romantic epic poem Orlando Furioso ) and Matteo Maria Boiardo ( author of the grandiose poem of chivalry and romance Orlando Innamorato ), lived and worked at the court of Ferrara during the 15th and 16th century.

Musaeus's poem had early translations into European languages by Tasso ( Italian ), Boscán ( Spanish ) and Marot ( French ).

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Hans Henrik ( Hans Heinrich " Heini ") Ágost Gábor Tasso Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon ( 13 April 1921 – 26 April 2002 ), a noted industrialist and art collector, was a Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title, a legal resident of Monaco for tax purposes, with a declared second residency in the United Kingdom, but in actuality a long-time resident of Spain, and son of a German father and a Hungarian and English American mother ( related to Daniel M. Frost and John Kerry ).< ref >

* Torquato Tasso ( 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595 ), Italian poet

His nephew, Robert Milman ( 1816 – 1876 ), was Bishop of Calcutta from 1867 until his death, and was the author of a Life of Torquato Tasso ( 1850 ).

Accolti wrote in Latin a history of the First Crusade, entitled De Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros gesto pro Christi Sepulchro et Judaea recuperandis libri IV ( 1464 ), or " On the War carried on by the Christians against the Barbarians, for the Recovery of Christ's Sepulchre, and of Judea ", which is said to have furnished Torquato Tasso with the historical basis for his Jerusalem Delivered.

The Ancestress was followed by Sappho ( 1818 ), a drama of a very different type ; in the classic spirit of Goethe's Torquato Tasso, Grillparzer unrolled the tragedy of poetic genius, the renunciation of earthly happiness imposed upon the poet by his higher mission.

The Classical-era poet Virgil ( Publius Vergilius Maro, 70 – 19 BC ) continued this literary narrative technique in the Aeneid, which is part of the Greek literary tradition of imitating Homer, medias in res narration further continued in early modern poetry with Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ), by Torquato Tasso, Paradise Lost ( 1667 ), by John Milton, and generally in Modernist literature.

Death masks were taken not only of deceased royalty and nobility ( Henry VIII, Sforza ), but also of eminent persons — poets, philosophers, composer, and dramaturges, such as John Keats, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Dante Alighieri, Filippo Brunelleschi, Torquato Tasso, Blaise Pascal and Voltaire.

* La Notte ( T: Angelo Poliziano ), Epigramma ( T: Torquato Tasso ) and A se stesso ( T: Giacomo Leopardi ) for mixed chorus op. 37 ( 1955 )

Meats such as ham, sausage ( most commonly Andouille ), and Tasso ham are also frequently used in the dish.

Bernardo Tasso ( November 11, 1493 – September 5, 1569 ), born in Bergamo, was an Italian courtier and poet.

Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables ; for example, the major works by Dante, Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso.

His poems were set more often by madrigal composers than the work of any other poet, even Tasso, who came in a close second ; the prolific madrigal composer Philippe de Monte even named one of his collections Il pastor fido after Guarini's most famous work.

Morgante ( c. 1483 ) by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato ( 1495 ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) by Ludovico Ariosto, and Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso are all indebted to the French narrative material ( the Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto poems are founded on the legends of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as " Orlando ").

In this country those who still wrote epic poems, following the rules set by Torquato Tasso in his work Discorsi del poema eroico ( Discussions about the Epic Poems ) and realized in his masterwork, the Jerusalem Delivered, were felt as antiquated.

La Araucana is one of the works which the men spare from the flames, as " one of the best examples of its genre ", entirely Christian and honorable, and is proclaimed to be among the best poems in the heroic style ever written, good enough to compete with those of Ariosto and Tasso.

Since the 1730s, the subject of the works changed greatly: those of the pastoral tradition and Arcadia, it is preferable that the poems of chivalry, usually Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, or those taken from hagiography and Christian commedia dell ' arte.

These included Franz Liszt, with whom he played arrangements of two of Liszt's symphonic poems ( Les Préludes, and Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo ) for 2 pianos, Hector Berlioz, Gioachino Rossini, Charles Gounod, Felix Mendelssohn, Sigismond Thalberg and Charles-Marie Widor.

The list of professors and alumni is long and illustrious, containing, among others, the names of Bembo, Sperone Speroni, the anatomist Vesalius, Copernicus, Fallopius, Fabrizio d ' Acquapendente, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey, Pietro Pomponazzi, Reginald, later Cardinal Pole, Scaliger, Tasso and Sobieski.

He returned to the stage and performed in Hamlet, Danton's Death, Henry IV, Henry V, Torquato Tasso, and Becket, among others.

Furthermore, Josef Hiršal built a reputation as a translator of foreign works into the Czech language, translating the works of, among others, Christian Morgenstern, Ernst Jandl, Eugène Ionesco, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Heinrich Heine, H. C. Artmann, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Fernando Pessoa and Torquato Tasso ; in 1989, he received the Grand Austrian State Prize for his translations.

After the Dutch raid, the Tasso Island fort was moved to nearby Bunce Island which was more defensible.

A little way off is the university, which has faculties of law, architecture, pharmacy, medicine and natural science ; the library has valuable manuscripts, including part of that of the Orlando furioso and letters by Tasso.

He and Tasso search for a hidden escape rocket, which is revealed as a single-seat spacecraft.

While Guarini's work may be seen as lacking the deep feeling and sentiment of another poet at the Estensi court, Torquato Tasso, it was precisely this quality which commended it to musical setting at a time when excessive emotionalism had become unfashionable.

The problem of the play has some resemblance to that of Goethe's Torquato Tasso, for in both we find the struggles of a poetic nature which is unable to reconcile itself to the conditions of the actual world.

Thus the court that she assembled about her in Ferrara corresponded to the tradition which the cultivation of science and art implicitly required, including scholars like Bernardo Tasso and Fulvio Pellegrini.

Ercilla ’ s depiction of Caupolicán elevates La Araucana above the poem ’ s structural defects and prosaic moments, which occur toward the end when Ercilla follows Tasso too closely and the narrative strays from the author ’ s lived experience.

Jerusalem Delivered ( La Gerusalemme liberata ) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Catholic knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem.

This is what Tasso has done in the Gerusalemme liberata, the subject of which is the liberation of the sepulchre of Jesus Christ in the 11th century by Godfrey of Bouillon.

They were often seen as inferior to the Torrismondo of Torquato Tasso, specially remarkable for the choruses, which sometimes remind one of the chorus of the Greek tragedies.

In 1833 Kukolnik ’ s first play “ Tortini ” was published by Faddei Bulgarin, soon followed by fantasy drama “ Torcuato Tasso ”, which resulted in his reputation as a legendary playwright in the capital.

Of Lombard origin, the city was ruled by the Torelli family from 1406 to 1539, when it became the capital of a duchy under the Gonzaga family and housed artists like Guercino and Torquato Tasso.

Poetry was used in satires ( Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is famous for his " Satires " ( 1666 )) and in epics ( inspired by the Renaissance epic tradition and by Tasso ) like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle.

Poetry was used in satires ( Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is famous for his Satires ( 1666 )) and epics ( inspired by the Renaissance epic tradition and by Tasso ) like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle.

" The subjects, erudite but devoid of pedantry, are the Sea, considered as an object of contemplation, the French language, Secrets, True Wit (" Le Bel Esprit "), The Ineffable (" Le Je ne sais quoi ") and Mottoes (" Devises "), all expressed in flawless idiom and effortless allusions to the Classics or Torquato Tasso.

In later European literature his work was imitated or translated by such authors as Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson.

Metastasio wrote the libretto in 1751, basing it on a work by Torquato Tasso called Aminta.

The work belongs to the Renaissance tradition of the Italian romantic epic poem, and Tasso frequently borrows plot elements and character types directly from Ariosto's Orlando furioso.

Tasso began work on the poem in the mid-1560s.

Of the work, musicologist Alfred Einstein wrote in his 1949 opus The Italian Madrigal: " it is ... a spiritual counterpart to the cycles from the great epics of Ariosto and Tasso, an old man's work, comparable in its artistry, its dimensions, its asceticism only to the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue.