The Torquato Tasso Page

( 1544 - 1595 )
Major Work
Aminta ( 1573 ). A play.
The Elizabethan translation by Edward Fairfax has been translated by Capricorn, n.d., and Joseph Tusiani's verse translation was published by Fairleigh Dickinson, 1970.
Jerusalem Delivered ( Published, 1581 ). On Line from Sunsite-Berkeley.

About Tasso
Brand, C. P. , Torquato Tasso: A Study of the Poet and His Contribution to English Literature. Cambridge, 1965.
Tasso Biography from Catholic Encyclopedia.

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