. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. MORBID mental and moral pheno-mena are frequent attributes of ge-nius. Tasso forms a noteworthyinstance of this. His irritability,moodiness, restlessness, self-con-sciousness, proud sensibility,—in aword, the various manifestations ofvanity and weakness of character—were, no doubt, in a large measure,responsible for the miseries he hadto endure. Favored by nature, aprodigy in childhood, attaining literary fame almost at abound while still a boy, named with Dante, Petrarch andAriosto as one of the foremost poets
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. MORBID mental and moral pheno-mena are frequent attributes of ge-nius. Tasso forms a noteworthyinstance of this. His irritability,moodiness, restlessness, self-con-sciousness, proud sensibility,—in aword, the various manifestations ofvanity and weakness of character—were, no doubt, in a large measure,responsible for the miseries he hadto endure. Favored by nature, aprodigy in childhood, attaining literary fame almost at abound while still a boy, named with Dante, Petrarch andAriosto as one of the foremost poets of Italy, he practicallyaccomplished his life-work in three decades, the remainderof his existence being artistically ineffectual—a round ofmental suffering. The story of his life has been called averitable Odyssey of malady, indigence and misfortune,—of derangement, exile, imprisonment, poverty and hopedeferred. He was out of joint with the world. Torquato Tasso was born at Sorrento, in Naples, on theI ith of March, 1544, ^s the son of Bernardo Tasso, a poet ofsome dis
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