Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
Auteur de Jérusalem libérée
A propos de l'auteur
Few poets have had a more anguished life than Italy's Torquato Tasso, about whom Goethe wrote his celebrated tragedy Torquato Tasso. His great chivalric epic of the Christian crusades is Jerusalem Delivered (1575). Tasso, who was a critic before he was a poet, sought to make Homer and Virgil his afficher plus models and Dante his source of Christian poetic inspiration, but the resulting epic, as finally published in 1581, is a work of Petrarchan melancholy. Unlike Dante or Ariosto, Tasso did not succeed in objectifying a world in the epic manner. In celebrating the deeds of heroes, he remained subjective and lyric. The reason may be, as some have suggested, that he felt Italy was a long way from becoming a significant united nation capable of sustaining a truly epic enterprise in its literature. Forlorn in love, overwhelmed by melancholy, ever suspicious of intrigues against him, Tasso became self-critical to the point of trying to rewrite his epic to placate its severest critics. He traveled much and was several times confined as insane by patrons and friends who loved him. He died in Rome, where he had been summoned to be honored, like Petrarch, with the poet's laurel. Second to Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso's most influential literary work has been his pastoral play Aminta (1581), which has been performed and highly praised. As in his epic, the poetic voice is lyric. Some modern critics have come to believe that, with his all-pervasive lyricism, Tasso was far ahead of his times. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Torquato Tasso
Dialogues: A Selection with the "Discourse on the Art of the Dialogue" (Biblioteca Italiana) (Italian and English… (1982) 6 exemplaires
Jerusalem Libertada 4 exemplaires
L'Aminta e il Torrismondo 4 exemplaires
Rime per Lucrezia Bendidio 3 exemplaires
Tre scritti politici 3 exemplaires
Dialoghi. Tomo primo 3 exemplaires
Johan Wolfang von Goethe 3 exemplaires
Dialoghi. Tomo secondo 3 exemplaires
Tasso (2 vols. in 1) 2 exemplaires
[Opere di Torquato Tasso] 2 2 exemplaires
I quattro poeti Italiani — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Jerusalem Delivered, Vol. I 2 exemplaires
LA JERUSALÉN LIBERADA 1 exemplaire
La Gerusalemme liberata II 1 exemplaire
La Gerusalemme liberata I 1 exemplaire
Jerusalém Libertada - ed. 1617 1 exemplaire
La Gierusalemme Liberata - ed. 1590 1 exemplaire
Il Goffredo poema eroico del signor Torquato Tasso con gli argomenti del signor Gio: Vicenzo Imperiale 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme liberata, La 1 exemplaire
Jerusálem Libertada 1 exemplaire
La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso, con Commento di Severino Ferrari: Nuova Edizione Curata e Riveduta da Pietro… (2016) 1 exemplaire
Delle rime, et prose del sig. Torquato Tasso. Parte prima [-terza], di nuouo ristampate, con diligenza riuedute, e… 1 exemplaire
Aminta, a cura di Claudio Varese — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
La Gerusalemme Liberata - ed. 1771 - 02 vol. 1 exemplaire
Il Goffredo : poema eroico del signor Torquato Tasso con gli argomenti del signor Gio: Vincenzo Imperiale 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme conquistata 1 exemplaire
La Jerusalén liertada. Tomo II 1 exemplaire
The householders philosophie ; anexed, A dairie booke (The English experience, its record in early printed books… (1975) 1 exemplaire
I drammi de' boschi e delle marine, ossiano l'Aminta di Torquato Tasso, il Pastor Fido di Battista Guarini,… 1 exemplaire
Le lettere 1 exemplaire
4: Il mondo creato: Il rogo amoroso: Genealogia della serenissima Casa Gonzaga: Le lagrime della beata vergine: Le… 1 exemplaire
Play God of love - play Faun "Aminta" (Iwanami Bunko) (1987) ISBN: 4003271017 [Japanese Import] 1 exemplaire
Jerusalem Delivered - two volumes - Vol.II. 1 exemplaire
La Jerusalén libertada. Tomo I 1 exemplaire
Tasso Jerusalem release (Iwanami Bunko) (2010) ISBN: 4003271025 [Japanese Import] (2010) 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme Liberata. A cura di Lanfranco Caretti 1 exemplaire
Gofred abo Jeruzalem wyzwolona ; [poemat] 1 exemplaire
Intrichi d'amore 1 exemplaire
Prose 1 exemplaire
Les Morales de Torqvato Tasso, Où il est traitté De La Covr. De L'Oisiveté. De La Vertv des… 1 exemplaire
Chant XVI. de la Jérusalem delivrée, mis en vers par un homme de cette ville [J.-M.-B. Clément] 1 exemplaire
Orazioni 1 exemplaire
Gioie di rime e prose 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme Liberata. Aminta, Rime scelte e versi dalla Gerusalemme Conquistata dal Rinaldo e dal mondo Creato 1 exemplaire
Discorsi dell'arte poetica e del poema eroico 1 exemplaire
Bellezze della Gerusalemme liberata 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme liberata e prose scelte 1 exemplaire
Jerusalem Delivered: Volume 3 1 exemplaire
Casa Gonzaga 1 exemplaire
Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht. To this is added Ariadne's complaint in imitation of Anguillara, written by the… 1 exemplaire
Opere Minori 1 exemplaire
OPERE 1 exemplaire
Sonnette an Lucrezia Bendidio 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme Liberata, Aminta, Rime scelte e versi dalla Gerusalemme conquistata, dal Rinaldo e dal Mondo creato 1 exemplaire
Poesia Diversi - 23 - Settimanale - Torquato Tasso 1 exemplaire
Opere. 2: Dal Rinaldo: Dalle Rime: Aminta: Il re Torrismondo: Rogo amoroso: Dal Mondo creato — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme liberata Aminta e Rime scelte 1 exemplaire
The housholders philosophie VVherein is perfectly and profitably described, the true oeconomia and forme of… 1 exemplaire
Scritti sull'arte poetica (Classici Ricciardi) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
La Gerusalemme liberata. E prose scelte 1 exemplaire
5: Torquato Tasso 1 exemplaire
Gerusalemme liberata vol 1 - 2 1 exemplaire
Lettere, 2 1 exemplaire
Lettere, 1 1 exemplaire
Opere con le annotazioni di vari autori 1 exemplaire
Motti e detti milanesi 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2005) — Contributeur — 190 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1544-03-11
- Date de décès
- 1595-04-25
- Lieu de sépulture
- Chiesa di Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo, Rome, Italy
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Italy
- Lieu de naissance
- Sorrento, Italy
- Lieu du décès
- Rome, Italy
- Lieux de résidence
- Naples, Italy
Venice, Italy
Padua, Italy
Ferrara, Italy
Paris, France - Études
- Padua University, Italy
- Professions
- courtier
poet - Relations
- Tasso, Bernardo (father)
- Courte biographie
- Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in the Kingdom of Naples to a noble Italian family. His father Bernardo Tasso was a courtier for many years in the service of the Prince of Salerno. He was thrown into poverty and exile when his patron ran afoul of the Spanish authorities. The boy lived with his mother and his only sister in Naples and was educated by Jesuits. After his father's fall, he joined him in Rome. In 1557, Bernardo Tasso was offered a place at the court of Urbino. Young Tasso grew up among the cultivated, literary men who gathered there and became a companion of Francesco Maria della Rovere, the duke of Urbino's heir. He was subsequently sent to study law at Padua but spent most of his time on philosophy and poetry. Before the end of 1562, he had produced Rinaldo, a narrative poem. After a short period of further study at Bologna, he entered the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at the court of Duke Alfonso II d’Este of the powerful city state of Ferrara. As a young, handsome, accomplished, and well-bred gentleman, Torquato Tasso was much admired. He completed an influential play with music, Aminta, in 1573 (printed 1581) and his masterpiece, the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata, in 1574. During the years 1575-1577, Tasso's mental health declined, and he developed the persecution mania that led to stories about a restless, moody, half-mad writer with violent outbursts that have come down in history. Bad behavior got him confined to the St. Anna madhouse in Ferrara, where he lived until 1586. From there, he corresponded with princes and men of learning throughout Italy and wrote prose works on philosophical and ethical themes. Tasso left St. Anna's at the intervention of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua. Beginning in the autumn of 1587, he travelled restlessly between Mantua, Bologna, Naples, Florence, and Rome, where the pope granted him a pension and promised to make him poet laureate.
His health grew worse, and he died at age 51.
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He carries some traditions from the Greek epics but also expands upon them. I'm not quite sure why it was recommended for a course on American literature though...