Already darkening night had quenched all rays of daylight, and made truce, in mere oblivion of all care and fright, with tears and with laments. - Torquato Tasso

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Already darkening night
had quenched all rays of daylight, and made truce,
in mere oblivion of all care and fright,
with tears and with laments.

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About Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso (March 11 1544 – April 25 1595) was an Italian epic poet and dramatist, best known for his Rinaldo (1562), Aminta (1573) and Gerusalemme Liberata (1580).

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Alternative Names: Torcuato Tasso
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Mentre sono in tal rischio, ecco un guerriero (ché tal parea) d'alta sembianza e degna; e mostra, d'arme e d'abito straniero, che di lontan peregrinando vegna. La tigre, che su l'elmo ha per cimiero, tutti gli occhi a sé trae, famosa insegna. insegna usata da Clorinda in guerra; onde la credon lei, né 'l creder erra. 39 Costei gl'ingegni feminili e gli usi tutti sprezzò sin da l'età piú acerba: a i lavori d'Aracne, a l'ago, a i fusi inchinar non degnò la man superba. Fuggí gli abiti molli e i lochi chiusi, ché ne' campi onestate anco si serba; armò d'orgoglio il volto, e si compiacque rigido farlo, e pur rigido piacque.

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