'Tasso', (1544-1595), 1830. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Italian poet best known for 'Jerusalem Delivered' describing the Siege of Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade. He suffered from mental illness and died before receiving an award for his poetry from Pope Clement VIII. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]
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