Tasso, Bernardo

Tasso, Bernardo

▪ Italian courtier and poet
born Nov. 11, 1493, Bergamo, republic of Venice [Italy]
died Sept. 5, 1569, Ostiglia, duchy of Mantua [Italy]

      Italian courtier and poet who was the father of Torquato Tasso, the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance.

      Bernardo Tasso was a cultivated man who served various noblemen during his career. His son Torquato was born in 1544 while he was in the service of Ferrante Sanseverino, prince of Salerno, whom Bernardo followed into exile in 1552. Bernardo subsequently served at the court of Duke Guidobaldo II of Urbino, with whose son Torquato was educated, and he eventually became governor of Ostiglia while serving Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua.

      Bernardo wrote a great deal of poetry, including 55 odes that were the first original Italian poems in the manner of Horace. His major work was a 100-canto epic called Amadigi (published 1560), based on an earlier Spanish chivalric novel about that knight. One critic has termed Amadigi “vast, serious, and unreadable.” Some critics, however, find Bernardo's amplification of an episode from Amadigi more interesting; left incomplete at his death, it was subsequently worked over and published by Torquato as Floridante (1587).

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