Torquato Tasso Quotes (1544-1595)

“Crespe hà le chiome e d'oro, E in quella guisa appunto, Che Fortuna si pinge Ha lunghi e folti in sulla fronte i crini; Ma nuda hà poi la testa Agli opposti confini.”

“Whoever has a relish for the beauty, the art, the interest of a poetic composition, for richness of detail, for truth of character, for generosity of sentiment, should make the Jerusalem Delivered his favourite study. It is in a particular manner the poem of the soldier: it breathes valour and glory, and, as I have elsewhere observed, it seems to have been written upon a buckler in the midst of camps.”