His lesser known works include the tragedy Torrismondo, the pastoral drama Aminta, and two thousand short poems, which greatly influenced Spencer's Amoretti.  Goethe and Byron made him a romantic hero, attributing his seven year stay in an asylum to his passion for Leonora de Este, the sister of his patron, the Duke of Ferrara.  Others say the madness was caused by his concern over his most famous work, an epic of twenty cantos featuring the heroes Rinaldo and Tancredi who were helping Godfrey of Bouillon complete the First Crusade.  FTP, identify this author of Jerusalem Delivered.
His lesser known works include the tragedy Torrismondo, the pastoral drama Aminta, and two thousand short poems, which greatly influenced Spencer's Amoretti.  Goethe and Byron made him a romantic hero, attributing his seven year stay in an asylum to his passion for Leonora de Este, the sister of his patron, the Duke of Ferrara.  Others say the madness was caused by his concern over his most famous work, an epic of twenty cantos featuring the heroes Rinaldo and Tancredi who were helping Godfrey of Bouillon complete the First Crusade.  FTP, identify this author of Jerusalem Delivered.
His lesser known works include the tragedy Torrismondo, the pastoral drama Aminta, and two thousand short poems, which greatly influenced Spencer's Amoretti.  
Torquato Tasso