Definition of Torquato tasso

1. Noun. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595).

Exact synonyms: Tasso
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torquato Tasso

Tornwaldt
Tornwaldt's abscess
Tornwaldt's cyst
Tornwaldt's disease
Tornwaldt's syndrome
Torodal
Torontarian
Torontarians
Toronto
Toronto blessing
Toronto formula
Torontonian
Torontonians
Torpedinidae
Torpediniformes
Torquay
Torquemada
Torquemadan
Torquil
Torre's syndrome
Torrens title
Torreon
Torres Strait
Torres Strait Creole
Torrey's pine
Torrey pine
Torrey tree
Torreya
Torreya californica

Literary usage of Torquato tasso

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... torquato tasso (1544-1595) BY JF BINGHAM IHE most prominent literary figure of the last half of the sixteenth century, and the last of the great four ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"torquato tasso (1544-95), when his father died, had already achieved some reputation by his Rinaldo, published, somewhat to his father's regret, ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"torquato tasso (1544-1595) BY JF BINGHAM IHE most prominent literary figure of the last half of the sixteenth century, and the last of the great four ..."

4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"Aminta the famous Pastoral, written in Italian by Signer torquato tasso, ... II Rinaldo di torquato tasso, alla sua vera Lezione ridotto da Leonardo Nardini ..."

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