 Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem "Gerusalemme liberata" ("Jerusalem Delivered", 1581), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem.Tasso suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by the Pope.