Torquato Tasso: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	March 11, 1544 • Sorrento • Italy
Died	April 25, 1595 (aged 51) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works	“Aminta” • “Discorsi del poema eroico” • “Discorsi dell’arte poetica” • “Gerusalemme liberata” • “Rinaldo”
Notable Family Members	father Bernardo Tasso

Photos

Italian poet Torquato Tasso

See All Images →

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Parini, Giuseppe

Giuseppe Parini

Italian author

default image

Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

default image

Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Southey

English author

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

default image

Gabriele Rossetti

Italian scholar

default image

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Alfieri

Vittorio, Count Alfieri

Italian author

default image

Carlo, Conte Gozzi

Italian author

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

Battista Guarini, engraving by T. Cross, 1647, frontispiece to Il pastor fido by Guarini

Battista Guarini

Italian poet

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry