sister at Sorrento, 55;
hankering after Ferrara, 56;
his attachment to the House of Este, 57;
terms on which he is received back, 58;
second flight from Ferrara, 61;
at Venice, Urbino, Turin, 63;
'Omero Fuggiguerra,' 64;
recall to Ferrara, 65;
imprisoned at S. Anna, 66;
reasons for his arrest, 67;
nature of his malady, 69;
life in the hospital, 71;
release and wanderings, 73;
the _Torrismondo_, _ib._;
work on the _Gerusalemme Conquistata_ and
the _Sette Giornate_, 75;
last years at Naples and Rome, 76;
at S. Onofrio, 76;
death, 78;
imaginary Tassos, 79;
condition of romantic and heroic poetry in Tasso's youth, 80;
his first essay in poetry, 81;
the preface to _Rinaldo_, 82;
subject-matter of the poem, 84;
its religious motive, 86;
Latinity of diction, _ib._;
weak points of style, 88;
lyrism and idyll, 89;
subject of the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, 92;
its romance, 94;
imitation of Virgil, 97;
of Dante, 97, 99;
rhetorical artificiality, 100;
sonorous verses, 101;
oratorical dexterity, 102;
similes and metaphors, _ib._;
majestic simplicity, 104;
the heroine, 106;
Tasso, the poet of Sentiment, 108;
the _Non so che_, 109 _sq._;
Sofronia, Erminia, Clorinda, 109 _sqq._;
the Dialogues and the tragedy _Torrismondo_, 113;
the _Gerusalemme Conquistata_ and
_Le Sette Giornate_, 115, 124;
personal appearance of Tasso, 115;
general survey of his character, 116 _sqq._;
his relation to his age, 120;
his mental attitude, 122;
his native genius, 124.
TASSONI, Alessandro:
his birth, ii. 297;
treatment by Carlo Emmanuele, 298;
his independent spirit, _ib._;
aim at originality of thought, 299;
his criticism of Dante and Petrarch, 300;
the _Secchia Rapita_:
its origin and motive, 301;
its circulation in manuscript copies, 302;
Tassoni the inventor of heroico-comic poetry, 303;
humor and sarcasm in Italian municipal wars, 304;
the episode of the Bolognese bucket, _ib._;
irony of the _Secchia Rapita_, 306;
method of Tassoni's art, _ib._;
ridicule of contemporary poets, 307;
satire and parody, 308;
French imitators of Tasso, 310;
episodes of pure poetry, 311;
sustained antithesis between poetry and melodiously-worded slang, 312;
Tassoni's rank as a literary artist, _ib._
TAXATION, the methods of, adopted by Spanish Viceroys in Italy, i. 49.
TENEBROSI, the (school of painte
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