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Or the traditional character of the Chanson de Roland, taken over by Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and why not, Virginia Woolf, together with millions of marionette representations throughout the piazzas of Southern Italy for centuries the Pupi tradition.
Publishing . . . Huh? Walter Jon Williams 2008
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Torquato Tasso, edited and translated from the Italian by Anthony M. Esolen
Liberating a Masterpiece Knox, Bernard 2001
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Though Torquato Tasso sought to defend the hedonistic liberties of a few passages in his Gerusalemme liberata by referring them to Platonic allegory, his Neo -
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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Dutch poet told the price of homely stockings to prosaic burghers, the writer of _Paradise Lost_ was speaking the language of Torquato Tasso in the country enraptured by the first sight of _la divina comedia_.
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Tasso > (Torquato Tasso, 1544-1595, Italian poet) dissevered > separated
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Just as Ariosto, during the reign of the first Alfonso and Lucretia, had celebrated the house of Este in a monumental poem, so Torquato Tasso now continued to do at the home of his descendant, Alfonso II.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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There is scarcely any poet whose life excites a more profound and melancholy interest than that of Torquato Tasso.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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Torquato Tasso was now in the full bloom of opening manhood.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Any thing approaching to an elaborate criticism of the _Torquato Tasso_ of Goethe we do not, in this place, intend to attempt; our object is merely to translate some of the more striking and characteristic passages, and accompany these extracts with such explanatory remarks as may be necessary to render them quite intelligible.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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_Torquato Tasso_ is what in this country would be called a dramatic poem, in opposition to the tragedy composed for the stage, or _quasi_ for the stage.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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