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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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