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Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso, the great Italian Renaissance poet and author of Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), was born March 11, 1544 in Sorrento. His father, Bernardo Tasso, was a court poet whose most famous

Io pure al nome tuo dolce rischiaro

by Torquato Tasso (1544–95)

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 At thy loved name my voice grows loud and clear 
 Fluent my tongue, as thou art wise and strong, 
 And soaring far above the clouds my song: 
 But soon it droops, languid and faint to hear, 
 And if thou conquerest not my fate, I fear 
 Invincible Alphonso, Fate ere long 
 Will conquer me—freezing in death my song, 
 And closing eyes now opened with a tear. 
 Nor dying merely grieves me, let me own, 

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