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Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, Biography


Torquato Tasso
Author:
Torquato Tasso
Life period:
Was born on 11 Mar 1544.
Died on date 25 Apr 1595, at 51 years old.
Occupation:
Italian poet
Origin country:
Italy
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Biography:

Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1580), 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.

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