Tasso's Dialogues: A Selection, with the Discourse on the Art of the Dialogue

by Torquato Tasso, Lord Carnes (Editor), Dain A. Trafton (Editor)

Tasso's A Selection, with the Discourse on the Art of the Dialogue (Biblioteca Italiana)

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 1983

About the author

Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. He died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe.