Torquato Tasso

Poet

Birthday March 11, 1544

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Italy

DEATH DATE Apr 25, 1595 (51)

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About

Sixteenth-century Italian poet who is most remembered for a 1580 work entitled La Gerusalemme Liberata.

Before Fame

His mother died under mysterious circumstances when he was young.

Trivia

He suffered from mental illness and was confined to an asylum in St. Anna for seven years.

Family Life

He was born into a noble family in Sorrento and was the son of poet Bernardo Tasso.

Associated With

His stay in a mental institution was the subject of Lord Byron's poem "The Lament of Tasso."

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