Tasso in a sentence

Tasso, sometimes called tasso ham, is a smoked piece of pork that usually comes from the shoulder.

Tasso is a senior, and he’s really the only guy that lettered last year that’s on our team.

Meanwhile, Piazza Tasso is Sorrento’s central square, featuring shops, bars, and restaurants.

After the Dutch raid, the Tasso Island fort was moved to nearby Bunce Island which was more defensible.

Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso 's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

Even before that date, the young Tasso had been a frequent visitor at the Este court, where in 1561 he had encountered Lucrezia Bendidio, one of Eleanora d'Este's ladies-in-waiting, and fallen in love with her.

From the carriage stepped Tasso and told the prior he had come to die with him.

In the course of the 1570s Tasso developed a persecution mania which led to legends about the restless, half-mad, and misunderstood author.

It is singular that just in these years, when mental disorder, physical weakness, and decay of inspiration seemed dooming Tasso to oblivion, his old age was cheered with brighter rays of hope.

It was no doubt very irksome for a man of Tasso's pleasure-loving, restless and self-conscious spirit to be kept for more than seven years in confinement.

Map of Bunce Island from 1727 A company called the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa received a charter from Charles II of England in 1663 and subsequently built a fort in the Sherbro and on Tasso Island in the Freetown estuary.

Poet Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in 1575.

Rome presented Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (January 1833) and Torquato Tasso (September 1833).

She became the addressee of his first series of love sonnets, to be followed in 1563 by Laura Peperara, the next object of Tasso's affections.

Some biographers have surmised that a compromising liaison with Leonora d'Este came to light, and that Tasso agreed to feign madness in order to cover her honor, but of this there is no proof.

Tasso, already overworked by his precocious studies, by exciting court-life and exhausting literary industry, now grew almost mad with worry.

Tasso died in Sant'Onofrio in April 1595.

Tasso, preoccupied as always with his own sorrows and his own sense of dignity, made no allowance for the troubles of his master.

Tasso's self-chosen critics were not men to admit what the public has since accepted as incontrovertible.

The most important events in Tasso's biography during the following four years are the completion of Aminta in 1573 and Gerusalemme Liberata in 1574.