Tasso

• “After translating the main works of Tasso from the Italian for the benefit of his countrymen, one of their poets -- Gundulitch -- composed a twenty-canto epic entitled Osman, wherein he described the war between the Poles and Turks in 1621.”

  The Book of the Epic

• “There is something called Tasso that sells from $5.99 and I'm guessing is like boudin only more enigmatic.”

  The Washington Post: The boudin and other cajun meat

• “He therefore very happily calls Tasso an elevated Werther.”

  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

• “There he met a friend called Tasso, who had also quarrelled with his parents; and the two youths agreed, upon the moment, to set off for Rome.”

  Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts

• “Just below is a terrace, and on it a beautiful tree called Tasso's Oak, because under it he used to sit and compose when he lived in the Convent of San Onofrio, which is close by, and where he died.”

  The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)

• “Fairfax's _Godfrey of Bullen_ was his translation of Tasso, which is mentioned above.”

  The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb

• “The whole spot, in short, is such as Tasso might have imagined to be the scene of Ismeno's incantation, and the congress of devils whom he convoked; and at a sudden turn of the road, the Château Negro peeps from between the opposite heights in such a new and striking position, as to seem, without much stretch of imagination, the abode of the wizard himself.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “He also compares him to a 'bonus genius sent to me, as the good angel to Raimond in "Tasso," for my assistant to combat this great Argante.”

  Shakspere and Montaigne

• “The water, foaming and flashing, and then escaping amid huge gray stones on its troubled course -- clear and transparent, expanding into tranquil pools, with the flickering sunshine through the dense foliage -- all combine to form at scene such as Tasso has described.”

  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

• “It was only in the nineteenth century, after Zhukovski and Batyushkoff had translated into Russian some of the world's great masterpieces, such as Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered and Homer's Odyssey, that Pushkin wrote (1820) the epic Ruslan and Lyudmila, drawing the materials therefore from Russian antiquity and from popular legends.”

  The Book of the Epic

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