Click here to buy a book:	Torquato TASSO (1544-1595) Italian poet & dramatist born Sorrento March 11, 1544. Died Rome April 25, 1595
	PLAYS Aminta (Amyntas). Pastoral tragicomedy, prologue and 5 acts: verse. Written 1573. Published 1580. Produced Belvedere Island, Po River, Gelosi company, July 31, 1573. Il re Torrismondo (King Torrismund). Tragedy, 5 acts: verse. Written 1573/86. Published 1587. Produced Vicenza, Teatro Olimpico, 1618. EDITIONS Opere di Torquato Tasso, ed. by G. Rosini, vols. III and IV, Pisa, 1821-1822 Teatro di Torquato Tasso, ed. by A. Solerti, Bologna, 1895 Torquato Tasso: Poesie, ed. by F. Flora, Milan and Naples, 1952; Tutte le poesie di Torquato Tasso, ed. by L. Caretti, vol. III, Milan, 1957 Opere di Torquato Tasso, ed. by B. T. Sozzi, new ed., vol. 2, Turin, 1964 Il teatro italiano: la tragedia del Cinquecento, ed. by M. Ariani, Turin, 1977. Aminta (Amyntas). B. T. Sozzi, ed., Padua, 1957 also published in A Renaissance Treasury, ed. by H. Haydn and J. C. Nelson and tr. by J. Oldmixon, Garden City, N.Y., 1953 and in The Genius of the Italian Theatre, ed. by E. Bentley, New York, 1964. CRITICISM G. J. Ferrazzi, Torquato Tasso, Bassano, 1880 W. Boulting, Tasso and His Times, New York, 1907 M. Sansone, L'Aminta di Torquato Tasso, Messina and Milan, 1941 C. B. Beall, La Fortune du Tasse en France, Eugene, 1942 B. T. Sozzi, Studi sul Tasso, Pisa, 1954 Comitato per le Celebrazioni di Torquato Tasso, Torquato Tasso, Milan, 1957 F. Pool, Desiderio e realitd nella poesia del Tasso, Padua, 1960 C. P. Brand, Torquato Tasso, Cambridge, England, 1965 R. Cody, The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies, New York, 1969.
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