. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... rtime. Helikewise modelled in wax. Tassie died in1799. The descriptive catali gue of hisgems forms two volumes (juarto. T.\SSO, Bkrnardo, an Italian poet,was born, in 1493, at Bergamo; was suc-cessively in the service of the prince ofSalerno and the dukes of Urbino ; and died in 1569. Of his poemsthe principal is Amadis de Gaul, in ahundred cantos. TASSO, , one of the great-est of the Italian poets, was the son ofBernardo, and was born, in 1544, at Sor-rento. He may
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... rtime. Helikewise modelled in wax. Tassie died in1799. The descriptive catali gue of hisgems forms two volumes (juarto. T.\SSO, Bkrnardo, an Italian poet,was born, in 1493, at Bergamo; was suc-cessively in the service of the prince ofSalerno and the dukes of Urbino ; and died in 1569. Of his poemsthe principal is Amadis de Gaul, in ahundred cantos. TASSO, , one of the great-est of the Italian poets, was the son ofBernardo, and was born, in 1544, at Sor-rento. He may almost be said to have lisped in numbers; and at twelve yearsof age he had acepiired extensive know-ledge. .After having been educated atRome, he went to Padua, to study law, incompliance with the wishes of his was while he was there, and in hiseighteenth year, that he pidilished thepoem of Rinaldo. In 1565 Duke Alphon-I so of Ferrara invited him to his court,I aud, with the exception of the time occu- TAY paed liy a journey to France, Tasso re-sided there till 1577. During this period. TEM 475. besides many minor pieces, he producedhis Aminta, and completed the JerusalemDelivered. In he secretly quittedFerrara; having, it has been supposed, in-curred the anger of the duke by his pas-sion for the Princess Leonora of Este, hispatrons sister. He returned, however,but his intellects being now in some de-gree affected, he was ungenerously shut upin a madhouse by Alphonso, where forseven years he experienced the most un-worthy treatment. The remonstrances ofseveral Italian princes at length procuredhis release. In he settled at Naples,and began to write a new poem on thesubject of his Jerusalem. This poem hefinished to his own .satisfaction, but pos-terity has not ratified his partiality for died April 2-5, 1595, at Rome, whilepreparations were making to confer onhim the laureate crown in the capitol. TASSONI, Alexander, an Italianpoet, was born, in 1565,
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