Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s Torquato Tasso ( , <small>also</small> , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 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. Wikipedia
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