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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
  • Born: March 11, 1544
  • Died: April 25, 1595
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Poet

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 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 of 1099.