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Torquato Tasso

Died in 1595

Torquato Tasso (died 1595) was born in Sorrento on 11 March 1544, the son of the poet Bernardo Tasso. Educated by the Jesuits in Naples, he then studied at the University of Padua and published a first chivalric poem in 1562. Having entered the court of Ferrara in 1565, he served there Cardinal Luigi d'Este and then Duke Alfonso II, and composed a dramatic pastoral there in 1573. From 1579 to 1586 he was confined in the Hospital of Sant'Anna in Ferrara. He died in Rome, at the convent of Sant'Onofrio, on 25 April 1595.

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