Editing Torquato Tasso (section)

==Other works==
''Rime'' (Rhymes), nearly two thousand lyrics in nine books, were written between 1567 and 1593, influenced by [[Petrarch]]'s ''[[Canzoniere]]'' (''Songbook'').

''Galealto re di Norvegia'' (1573–4) is an unfinished tragedy, which was later finished under a new title: ''Re Torrismondo'' (1587). It is influenced by the tragedies of [[Sophocles]] and [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], and tells the story of princess Alvida of [[Norway]], who is forcibly married off to the [[Goths|Goth]] king Torrismondo, when she is devoted to her childhood friend, king Germondo of [[Sweden]].

In ''Messaggiero (The Messenger)'' (1582), Tasso touches on the nature of the [[diplomat]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Chiaruzzi |first=Michele |title=Tasso and the Diplomatic Persona |date=2024 |work=Rise of the International |pages=53–75 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871640.003.0003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780192871640.003.0003 |isbn=978-0-19-287164-0}}</ref>

''Dialoghi'' (''Dialogues''), written between 1578 and 1594. These 28 texts deal with issues from morality (love, virtue, nobility) to the mundane (masks, play, courtly style, beauty). Sometimes Tasso touches on major themes of his time, such as religion vs. intellectual freedom; Christianity vs. Islam at [[Battle of Lepanto|Lepanto]].

''Discorsi del poema eroico'', published in 1594, is the main text for Tasso's [[poetics]]. It was probably written in the years while he was working on ''Gerusalemme Liberata''.