Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
Autor(a) de Jerusalem Delivered
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Torquato Tasso
Dialogues: A Selection with the "Discourse on the Art of the Dialogue" (Biblioteca Italiana) (Italian and English… (1982) 6 exemplares
Jerusalem Libertada 4 exemplares
L'Aminta e il Torrismondo 4 exemplares
Rime per Lucrezia Bendidio 3 exemplares
Tre scritti politici 3 exemplares
Dialoghi. Tomo primo 3 exemplares
Johan Wolfang von Goethe 3 exemplares
Dialoghi. Tomo secondo 3 exemplares
Tasso (2 vols. in 1) 2 exemplares
[Opere di Torquato Tasso] 2 2 exemplares
I quattro poeti Italiani — Autor — 2 exemplares
Jerusalem Delivered, Vol. I 2 exemplares
LA JERUSALÉN LIBERADA 1 exemplar
La Gerusalemme liberata II 1 exemplar
La Gerusalemme liberata I 1 exemplar
Jerusalém Libertada - ed. 1617 1 exemplar
La Gierusalemme Liberata - ed. 1590 1 exemplar
Gerusalemme liberata, La 1 exemplar
Jerusálem Libertada 1 exemplar
La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso, con Commento di Severino Ferrari: Nuova Edizione Curata e Riveduta da Pietro… (2016) 1 exemplar
Aminta, a cura di Claudio Varese — Autor — 1 exemplar
La Gerusalemme Liberata - ed. 1771 - 02 vol. 1 exemplar
Gerusalemme conquistata 1 exemplar
La Jerusalén liertada. Tomo II 1 exemplar
The householders philosophie ; anexed, A dairie booke (The English experience, its record in early printed books… (1975) 1 exemplar
Le lettere 1 exemplar
Play God of love - play Faun "Aminta" (Iwanami Bunko) (1987) ISBN: 4003271017 [Japanese Import] 1 exemplar
Jerusalem Delivered - two volumes - Vol.II. 1 exemplar
La Jerusalén libertada. Tomo I 1 exemplar
Gofred abo Jeruzalem wyzwolona ; [poemat] 1 exemplar
Intrichi d'amore 1 exemplar
Prose 1 exemplar
Les Morales de Torqvato Tasso, Où il est traitté De La Covr. De L'Oisiveté. De La Vertv des… 1 exemplar
Chant XVI. de la Jérusalem delivrée, mis en vers par un homme de cette ville [J.-M.-B. Clément] 1 exemplar
Orazioni 1 exemplar
Gioie di rime e prose 1 exemplar
Bellezze della Gerusalemme liberata 1 exemplar
Gerusalemme liberata e prose scelte 1 exemplar
Jerusalem Delivered: Volume 3 1 exemplar
Casa Gonzaga 1 exemplar
Opere Minori 1 exemplar
OPERE 1 exemplar
Sonnette an Lucrezia Bendidio 1 exemplar
Opere. 2: Dal Rinaldo: Dalle Rime: Aminta: Il re Torrismondo: Rogo amoroso: Dal Mondo creato — Autor — 1 exemplar
Gerusalemme liberata Aminta e Rime scelte 1 exemplar
Scritti sull'arte poetica (Classici Ricciardi) — Autor — 1 exemplar
La Gerusalemme liberata. E prose scelte 1 exemplar
5: Torquato Tasso 1 exemplar
Gerusalemme liberata vol 1 - 2 1 exemplar
Lettere, 2 1 exemplar
Lettere, 1 1 exemplar
Opere con le annotazioni di vari autori 1 exemplar
Motti e detti milanesi 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2005) — Contribuidor — 189 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1544-03-11
- Data de falecimento
- 1595-04-25
- Localização do túmulo
- Chiesa di Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo, Rome, Italy
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Italy
- Local de nascimento
- Sorrento, Italy
- Local de falecimento
- Rome, Italy
- Locais de residência
- Naples, Italy
Venice, Italy
Padua, Italy
Ferrara, Italy
Paris, France - Educação
- Padua University, Italy
- Ocupações
- courtier
poet - Relações
- Tasso, Bernardo (father)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 129
- Also by
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- Membros
- 1,204
- Popularidade
- #21,330
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 10
- ISBN
- 177
- Línguas
- 11
- Marcado como favorito
- 4
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...