#torquato

[antropofagis]

[semioticapocalypse]

Franz Hubmann. Oskar Werner and Gertrud Kückelmann rehearsing ‘Torquato Tasso’. Vienna. 1962

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[lezliebrooke]

- Torquato Tasso

[indigogh0st]

Work in progress of the death of Clorinda, from Jerusalem Delivered. I’m not that fond of my previous version ahaha

[italian-lit-tournament]

Italian literature tournament - First round.

Propaganda in support of the authors is accepted, you can write it both in the tag if reblog the poll (explaining maybe that is propaganda and you want to see posted) or in the comments. Every few days it will be recollected and posted here under the cut.

[tragediambulante]

Erminia discovering the wounded Tancred, Guercino, 1618

[turangalila]

Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596)

Il settimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci novamento composto & dato in luce (Antonio Gardano, Venice, 1581)

– Giunto alla tomba

Giunto alla tomba, ove al suo spirto vivo / Dolorosa prigion' il ciel prescrisse: / Di color, di calor, di moto privo / Gia marmo in vista al marmo il viso affisse. / Al fin scorgando un lagrimoso rivo, / In un languido oimè proruppe, e disse: / O sasso amato tanto, amaro tanto, / Che dentro hai le mie fiamme, e fuor' il pianto! //

Non di morte sei tu, ma di vivaci / Ceneri albergo, ov' è nascosto amore, / Sento dal freddo tuo l'usate faci / Men dolci sì, ma non men cald' al core. / Deh' prendi questi piant' e questi baci, / Prendi, ch'io bagno di doglioso umore. / E dalli tu poich' io non posso, almeno, / All' amate reliquie, c'hai nel seno. // [Torquato Tasso]

Giaches De Wert – Il Settimo Libro De Madrigali. The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley. (1989, Virgin Classics Digital – VC 7 90763-2)

[illustratus]

Erminia and the Shepherds by Eugène Delacroix

[machiavellli]

Thankfully my girl lived in Venice

[girlboccaccio]

I started this at October 2022 and left to rot on a folder until now - but now I have photoshop that stopped functioning and I finished it with paint - the low effort is real.

Btw: italian literature authors matrix - from medieval to early modern || 20th century authors coming soon

edit: a little explanation for anyone who isn’t an expert of italian literature

bitch row: Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Giambattista Marino, Vittorio Alfieri

thot row: Giovanni Boccaccio, Torquato Tasso, Ugo Foscolo, Pietro Aretino

bastard row: Pietro Bembo, Giovanni Verga, Giosuè Carducci, Carlo Goldoni

baby row: Francesco Petrarch, Giacomo Leopardi, Ludovico Ariosto, Angelo Poliziano

[sognidicarta]

[swallowtail-ageha]

He was a Gerusalemme Liberata boy and she was an Orlando Furioso girl, do i need to say more?

[larmegliamori]

Idk which era would have the worst Twitter drama but I do know the Ariosto VS Tasso diatribe in the late 1500s would've done numbers on Tumblr dot com

[quotessentially]

From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Torquato Tasso

[lafcadiosadventures]

me when Schiller’s Criminal from Lost Honour

[yourdailyqueer]

Torquato Tasso (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 11 March 1544  

RIP: 25 April 1595

Ethnicity: White - Italian

Occupation: Poet