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Excerpt from Renaissance in Italy, Vol. 2: The Catholic Reaction
Tasso's Relation to his Age - Balbi on that Period - The Life of Bernardo Tasso - Torquato's Boyhood - Sorrento, Naples, Rome, Urbino - His first Glimpse of the Court - Student Life at Padua and Bologna - The Rinaldo - Dialogues on Epic Poetry - Enters the Service of Cardinal d Este - The Court of Ferrara - Alfonso II. and the Princesses - Problem of Tasso's Love - Goes to France with Cardinal d'Este - Enters the Service of Duke Alfonso - The Aminta Tasso at Urbino - Return to Ferrara - Revision of the GerusaUmme - Jealousies at Court - Tasso's Sense of His own Importance - Plans a Change from Ferrara to Florence - First Symptoms of Mental Disorder - Persecutions of the Ferrarese Courtiers - Tasso confined as a Semi-madman - Goes with Duke Alfonso to Belriguardo - Flies in Disguise from Ferrara to Sorrento - Returns to Court Life at Ferrara - Problem of his madness - Flies again - Mantua, Venice, Urbino. Turin - Returns once more to Ferrara - Alfonso's Third Marriage - Tasso's Discontent - Imprisoned for Seven years in the madhouse of S. Anna - Character of Tasso - Character of Duke Alfonso - Nature of the Poet's Malady - His Course of Life in Prison - Released at the Intercession of Vincenzo Gonzaga - Goes to Mantua - The Torrismonda - An Odyssey of nine Years - Death at Sant Onofrio in Rome - Constantini's Sonnet
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