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Torquato Tasso

1544 - 1595

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Torquato Tasso ( TASS-oh, also US: TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 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 of 1099. Tasso had mental illness and died a few days before he was to be crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by Pope Clement VIII. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torquato Tasso has received more than 483,541 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Torquato Tasso is the 224th most popular writer (up from 239th in 2019), the 308th most popular biography from Italy (down from 304th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Writer.

Torquato Tasso is most famous for his epic poem "The Gerusalemme Liberata" which tells the story of the First Crusade.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Torquato Tasso ranks 224 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Corneille, Tomas Tranströmer, Ferdowsi, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. K. Rowling, and Bram Stoker. After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Prosper Mérimée, Dario Fo, Herman Melville, Snorri Sturluson, and Mikhail Bulgakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1544, Torquato Tasso ranks 3. Before him are Francis II of France, and William Gilbert. After him are Ismihan Sultan, Gevherhan Sultan, Renata of Lorraine, Maria Temryukovna, Şah Sultan, Anna of Saxony, Maddalena Casulana, Gillis van Coninxloo, and Giovanni Botero. Among people deceased in 1595, Torquato Tasso ranks 2. Before him is Murad III. After him are Philip Neri, Mohammad Khodabanda, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Archduke Ernest of Austria, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, António, Prior of Crato, John Hawkins, Thoinot Arbeau, Jeremias II of Constantinople, and Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Torquato Tasso ranks 308 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Pius I (90), Pope Paschal I (775), Paolo Uccello (1475), Pope Gelasius I (410), Pope Adrian III (800), and Pope Benedict I (525). After him are Charles IV of Spain (1748), Maxentius (278), Marsilio Ficino (1433), Catiline (-109), Dario Fo (1926), and Pierre Cardin (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Torquato Tasso ranks 19. Before him are Carlo Collodi (1826), Catullus (-84), Pliny the Younger (61), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Juvenal (50), and Carlo Goldoni (1707). After him are Dario Fo (1926), Sallust (-86), Primo Levi (1919), Alberto Moravia (1907), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), and Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863).

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