Editing Torquato Tasso (section)

== Influence ==
*Tasso's lyric poetry may have had some influence in late Renaissance France on [[Philippe Desportes|Desportes]] and [[Pierre de Ronsard|Ronsard]] (whom Tasso met in Paris). It almost certainly influenced a number of English Elizabethans, including [[Philip Sidney|Sir Philip Sidney]], [[Abraham Fraunce]] and [[Samuel Daniel]].
*[[Claudio Monteverdi]] composed ''[[Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda]]'' upon the text of ''Gerusalemme Liberata'', canto XII. He also composed music over some of Tasso's ''Rime'', particularly [[madrigal (music)|madrigal]]s.
*[[Giaches de Wert]] and [[Carlo Gesualdo]] da Venosa put into music many texts from Tasso's ''Rime'' and ''Gerusalemme''.
*The German writer [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] wrote a play, ''[[Torquato Tasso (play)|Torquato Tasso]]'', in 1790, which explores the struggles of the artist. He also composed a cantata text, "Rinaldo", inspired by canto XVI of ''Jerusalem Delivered'', later set to music by [[Johannes Brahms]].
* [[Giacomo Leopardi]] wrote ''Dialogo di Torquato Tasso e del suo Genio familiare'' (''Operette morali'', 1824), a prose about the long stay in St. Anna. The main theme is a comparison between pain and boredom, expressed in a dialogue between Tasso and a "Genius", or ghost, said to be visiting him in his loneliness.
*Among the numerous operas based on ''Jerusalem Delivered'' are works by [[Jean-Baptiste Lully|Lully]], [[Alessandro Scarlatti]], [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]], [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]], [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Antonio Salieri|Salieri]], [[Luigi Cherubini|Cherubini]], [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]], [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]] and [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]]. An experimental modern opera on the theme, by Judith Weir, transposes the scene into contemporary Iraq.
*Both [[Edmund Spenser]] and [[John Milton]] were greatly influenced by Tasso's work.
*[[Lord Byron]]'s poem "The Lament of Tasso" narrates Tasso's spell in St. Anna's hospital.
*The Italian composer [[Gaetano Donizetti]] wrote an opera on the subject of ''[[Torquato Tasso (opera)|Torquato Tasso]]'' (1833) and incorporated some of the poet's writing into the [[libretto]].
*[[Felicia Hemans]]'s poem ''Tasso's Coronation'' records the poet's death immediately prior to his intended crowning.
*[[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] published her poem ''Tasso's last interview with the Princess Leonora'' as a Metrical Fragment in 1826.
*[[Franz Liszt]] composed a [[symphonic poem]], ''[[Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo (Liszt)|Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo]]'', in commemoration of the centenary of Goethe's birth. 
*Artists inspired by both ''Jerusalem Delivered'' and ''Aminta'' have been legion and include [[Tintoretto]], the [[Accademia degli Incamminati|Carracci]], [[Guercino]], [[Pietro da Cortona]], [[Domenichino]], [[Cigoli]], [[Anthony van Dyck|Van Dyck]], [[Nicolas Poussin|Poussin]], [[Claude Lorrain]], [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo|Tiepolo]], [[François Boucher|Boucher]], [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard|Fragonard]], [[Johann Friedrich Overbeck]], [[Francesco Hayez|Hayez]] and [[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix]].