“Yield, and sufficient glory let it be
to have it said that you once fought with me.”

— Torquato Tasso

Renditi vinto, e per tua gloria basti
Che dir potrai che contra mie pugnasti.
Canto VI, stanza 32 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Italian poet 1544–1595

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