Italy Torino Poet Torquato Tasso High Relief Bronze Medal 1846 43.62mm 45.6 grams

Italy – Torino – Poet Torquato Tasso – High Relief Bronze Medal – 1846 – 43.62mm – 45.6 grams – Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1580), 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. He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe. This is just one of several medals I acquired during a recent trip to the Verronafil Coin Show in Italy.