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Bernardo Tasso (1493–1569)
Tasso, Bernardo (täs’sō). A Venetian poet; born in 1493; died at Ostiglia, Sept. 4, 1569. In 1536 he married Porzia de’ Rossi of Pistoja, and in 1554 retired to Sorrento in order to give himself entirely to literature. There he worked on his epic, ‘Amadis’; besides this he wrote ‘Floridante,’ a narrative poem finished by his son Torquato; and also shorter poems called ‘Amours,’ ‘Fishing Eclogues,’ and ‘Odes.’ In prose are the ‘Discourse on Poetry,’ and numerous interesting letters.