Tasso Collection

Hotels on the clifftops, Sorrento, Italy. They include the Hotel Tramontano and the Hotel Tasso. A man sits on a rock below. Date: late 19th century

Torquato Tasso

Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581, by Torquat
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581. Epic poem. Chant I. Printed in Venice, 1788

Eleonora D este Ferrara
ELEONORA D ESTE, duchessa di FERRARA, Italian noblewoman, sister of Alfonso II d Este, duca di Ferrari, and patroness of the poet Tasso. Date: 1537 - 1581

Italy - Sorrento - The Lace House and Useful Things Emporium - also includes a inset photograph of the Imperial Hotel Tramontano and the House where the great poet Tasso was born. Date: circa 1910

Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581, by Torquat
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581. Epic poem. Chant I. Printed in Venice, 1788. Colored

La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1580 by Torqu
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1580. Engraving

Benjamin Godard
BENJAMIN GODARD - French musician, who wrote operas, ballets, chamber music and a dramatic symphony Tasso, but who is best remembered for his popular salon music. Date: 1849 - 1895

Camilla Dal Verme
CAMILLA VALENTI, contessa DAL VERME wife of il conte Giacomo Michele Dal Verme, her virtues praised by Bernardo Tasso in his Amadigi Date: 1520 - ?

Reading Alound / Venice
Fellice Ballarin reciting Tasso to the people of Chioggia, a seaport in Venice, which used to be known in ancient times as Fossa Claudia. Date: circa 1885

Tasso & Leonora
Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595) Italian writer, with his friend Leonora

Tasso (Parez)
Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595) Italian writer

Tasso (Morghen)
Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595) Italian writer

TASSO, Torcuato (1544-1595). Italian poet. Tasso received in Rome by Cardinal Aldobrandini on behalf of Clement VIII, 1594. Illustration by L.Turgis. Litography

The top hat as a sign of chieftaincy in Sierra Leone. The civilised mans head-dress as a symbol of sovereignty for women as well as men rulers

Sorrento, view from Piazza del Tasso, Italy
View of Sorrento from the main square, the Piazza del Tasso. Date: late 19th century

Tassos Residence
The poet TORQUATO TASSOs residence at Sorrento. Date: 16TH CENTURY

Torquato Tasso Profile
TORQUATO TASSO Italian writer who in 1574 completed his epic Gerusalemme Liberata, but received little reward and spent much of his life crazed in asylums... Date: 1544 - 1595

John Hoole, Translator
JOHN HOOLE Translator of Tasso and Ariosto from italian into english. Date: 1727 - 1803

ITALY. Vicenza. Villa Valmarana. Rinaldo and
" ITALY. Vicenza. Villa Valmarana. Rinaldo and Armida", 1757. Fresco painting placed in Tasso room. Rinaldo and Armidas story comes from Torquato Tassos " Jerusalem Delivered"

Tasso in the Madhouse
TORQUATO TASSO Italian writer, incarcerated in a madhouse

Tasso / Jerusalem Liber
LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA title page of the poem by Torquato Tasso describing the siege of Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade

Tasso (Larmessin)
TORQUATO TASSO Italian writer

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