Torquato Tasso
Italian poet (1544–1595)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Renaissance poet who made waves with Gerusalemme liberata, his 1581 epic reimagining of crusaders and Muslims clashing at Jerusalem. Turned history into wildly inventive verse that basically defined the genre for everyone after him.
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Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, 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.
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