Life and creativity of Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento, an Italian town that was then within the borders of the Naples Kingdom, which was at the same time under Spanish domination. His mother, Portia de Rossi, comes from a wealthy nobility family of Naples. His father, Bernardo, son of a noble family from Bergamo, is at the same time Secretary of Salerno's Prince Ferrante Sansverino and performs important diplomatic missions to his benefactor. She studied at the Jesuit College in Naples, where she studied Latvian and Greek. In 1565, the father settled in Ferrara, where he was serving Cardinal Luigi d'Este, and then, in 1572, entered the courtyard of Duke Alfonso II. The young Tassos finds himself dependent on the rotten, mostly blushing, father's palace career, which is influenced by the constant change in alliances that are being established and spoiled over the same period between France, Spain, Rome and other powerful principalities situated on The Apennine peninsula.

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The Tassos family is destined to move across the Peninsula: from Naples to Orbino, then Rome, and later to Venice and Mantua. Bernardo is also a poet who, as a clergyman, often begins his work with loud initiations to secure prestigious positions in the entourage of his eminent patrons. He became a member of the Eterei Academy. Cardinal Luigi d'Este took him to his home in Ferrara in 1565. In 1570 Tassos accompanied the Cardinal to a diplomatic mission with French King Charles IX. In France she meets Ronsard. In 1562 he published his poem "Rinaldo" (Rinaldo), in which he developed a plot drawn from the French Knight's novel. Describes the stunning feats of the famous courtier Reno from Montboban, the good horse Bajar, and Archbishop Tirpen. Following his father's example, Tassos devotes his poem "Rinaldo", which consists of twelve songs and is written in the eighth (octave), to Cardinal Luigi d'Este. In creating this work, the young poet is inspired by "The Furious Orlando" by eighteen-year-old poet Ariosto, who astonishes his contemporaries. At the same time he was a law student at the University of Padua and later ( followed rhetoric and philosophy at the University of Bologna. The misfortunes that Torcquo performs in the Cardinal's home fill him with disfavour, as the young poet does not have any particular attachment to his patron. But having gained access to the palace d'Este, he managed to conquer the hearts of the young Princesses Eleonora and Lucrecia, who will greatly contribute to his career.

One and the other inspire him to write wonderful poems, as the more ardent works of the young courteous poet are dedicated to the charming Eleonora. Romantics are deepening in Torquato's impossible love for his high-ranking patron. also Goethe's drama "Torquato Tasso". Tassos contemporaries feel the echoes of this passionate affection of the poet in the episode depicting the love between Olynd and Sofronia in a second song of his poem "The Liberated Jerusalem." It is said that the concept of this poem emerged in Torquato in 1559, when he was 15 years old. She writes it between the twenty-first and the thirtieth year, ie. between 1566 and 1575. It is felt by the enthusiasm of a glamorous intellect and the early erudition of a young man who has been worshiping the classical writers - Homer, Vergilius, Lucian, Stacius and Claudius. Obviously the influence of the early-Renaissance Italian poets Dante and Petralka / XIV century /. Tassos is influenced by the epic poem by Marco Jirolamo Vida "Christias" - the Epic of Christ's Life - Vergillius' emblem, and by Jian Giorgio Trisino's poem "Italy Liberated by the Goths". The Epic tradition is maintained in Ferrara by Boyardo / author of "Love Orlando" and by Ariosto / author of "The Furious Orlando". Tasso's father also works in this tradition, composing a poem of one hundred songs titled "Amadigi", inspired by the Spanish knight novel "Amadis Galsky".