 | Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio Subjects: Tasso Torquato 1544-1595 -- Translations into English; Love poetry Italian; Love poetry Italian -- Translations into English; Torquato Tasso (1544-95), the renowned author of the epic Gerusalemme liberata and of the pastoral drama Aminta, was also a great and prolific lyric poet, composing over 500 poems, one-hundred-and-twenty of those dedicated to his youthful love, Lucrezia Bendidio. Max Wickert has edited the Italian texts and provides his new English verse translations on facing pages. His Introduction analyzes some of the key themes in these poems. The poems themselves are accompanied by detailed explanatory notes, including a selection of those made by Tasso himself. First English translation. Introduction, chronology, bibliography, notes, appendices, first-line index. |
