“I'll know his inmost aims and (doubt me not)
extract the guarded mysteries of his mind.”

— Torquato Tasso

Vantomi in lui scoprir gl'intimi sensi,
E i secreti pensier trargli del petto.
Canto XVIII, stanza 59 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Italian poet 1544–1595

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