Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.

** La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso ( 1575 )

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

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Torquato Tasso in the St. Ann's hospital of Ferrara, by Eugène Delacroix.

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.

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While there he became a friend of the great Italian poet Torquato Tasso.

Vincenzo was also a friend of the poet Torquato Tasso.

In March 1956 he made one single guest appearance at Vienna's Burgtheater in Goethe's Torquato Tasso.

** Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este at Ferrara.

* Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este at Ferrara.

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 story of love, battle and redemption set at the time of the First Crusade is loosely based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ), and its staging involved many original and vivid effects.

Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo, Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes ( ENBA ) in Rio de Janeiro.

Prose literature thus increasingly dominanted the expression of romance narrative in the later Middle Ages, at least until the resurgence of verse during the high Renaissance in the oeuvres of Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser.

For many years Becker was the favourite of the Weimar stage, and although he was at his best in comedy, he played, to Goethe's great satisfaction, Vansen in Egmont, and was also seen to great advantage in the leading parts of several of Schiller's plays ; notably Burleigh in Maria Stuart, Karl Moor in Die Räuber, and Antonio in Torquato Tasso.

Their son, the great poet Torquato Tasso, was born at Sorrento in 1544.

Though he raised the glory of Ferrara to its highest point, and was the patron of Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini, favouring the arts and sciences, as the princes of his house had always done, the legitimate line ended in 1597 with him.

Sorrento was the birthplace of the poet Torquato Tasso, author of the Gerusalemme Liberata.

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

Tieck's biggest influence was a 16th century Italian poet named Torquato Tasso, who is featured in Tieck's novel, Vittoria Accorombona, as a secondary character.

The French poet Pierre de Ronsard and the Italian poet Torquato Tasso both felt that Orlando Furioso lacked structural unity.

One tropicalista, the lyricist and poet Torquato Neto, committed suicide after such treatment.

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Another Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso borrowed many of Boiardo's epic conventions, although his Jerusalem Delivered does not use the Orlando frame.

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.

In a poetry contest held by the Cardinal Giorgio Cinthio Aldobrandini of Rome, Isabella Andreini attained second place, only behind the Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso.

The poet Torquato Tasso praised her in verse, in his Mentre in concento alterno, as did Agostini himself in the introduction to his 1582 madrigal collection.

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.

The story of Armida, a Saracen sorceress and Rinaldo, a soldier in the First Crusade, was created by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso.

Many of Dubreuil's subjects include mythological scenes and scenes from works of fiction by such writers as the Italian Torquato Tasso, the ancient Greek novelist Heliodorus of Emesa and French poet Pierre de Ronsard.