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association with Tasso

  • Torquato Tasso

    In Torquato Tasso: Composition of the Gerusalemme liberata.

    …hospitality in Rome by Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, a nephew of Pope Clement VIII. To this patron he dedicated a new version of his epic (Gerusalemme conquistata, published 1593), a poetic failure that reveals the extent of Tasso’s final submission to the moral and literary prejudices of the times. He wrote…

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