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(b Sorrento, March 11, 1544; d Rome, April 25, 1595). Italian writer. He was born near Naples, where the noble family of his mother, Porzia de’ Rossi, lived. His Bergamasque father, Bernardo Tasso (1493–1569), was one of the most famous literary courtiers of the day. When the elder Tasso found himself caught between the shifting political allegiances of the Neapolitan court, he sided with the French (against the Spanish) and was exiled from Naples in 1552, leaving his family behind. Torquato joined his father in Rome in 1554 but the boy’s mother could not come without forfeiting her rights to the sizeable dowry her family owed Bernardo. Porzia died in 1556, separated from husband and son, and Torquato continued the ultimately unsuccessful legal battle for her dowry into the 1580s. Lacking the financial independence that would have come with his mother’s money, Tasso was forced to spend most of his life moving among the courts, academies and universities of central and northern Italy in search of a beneficent patron. Between ...