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Question

An author with this surname wrote the 100-canto epic poem The Amadigi, which his son with this surname later published under the title Floridante. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this surname of Bernardo and his son, who composed the epic poem Rinaldo at age 18. An author with this surname wrote an epic poem in which the warrior-maiden Clorinda converts to Christianity before dying.

ANSWER: Tasso [accept Torquato Tasso; or Bernardo Tasso] (The epic poem is Jerusalem Delivered.)

[10m] Torquato Tasso wrote a set of lyrics titled for these things. The speaker addresses “You who hear the sound, in scattered [these things]” in the first of 366 poems in a 14th-century collection.

ANSWER: rhymes [or rimes; accept scattered rhymes or Rime Sparse]

[10e] Tasso was influenced by this author, whose metaphors he examined in his Treatise on the Art of Poetry. This Italian humanist wrote about Laura in his collection Il Canzoniere.

ANSWER: Petrarch [or Francis Petrarch; or Francesco Petrarca]

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Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	17.50	83%	75%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	7.14	43%	29%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	12.86	71%	57%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	12.00	80%	40%	0%
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South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	50%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
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Berkeley F	UCSC	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	Claremont Scripps	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
Claremont Pitzer	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCI	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSB	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Guelph A	0	10	10	20
McGill B	McMaster C	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	McGill C	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Queen's A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto G	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Guelph B	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	Toronto J	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Toronto I	Western Ontario	0	0	10	10
Toronto K	McMaster B	0	10	10	20
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	0	0
ERAU A	Melbourne B	0	0	0	0
UF E	FIU	0	0	10	10
FSU	UF C	0	0	0	0
Melbourne A	ERAU B	0	0	0	0
UF B	UCF B	0	10	10	20
UCF A	UF A	0	10	10	20
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OSU C	OSU B	0	10	10	20
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USC	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	10	10
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Tusculum	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
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South Carolina B	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
NC State	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Virginia B	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame E	Catholic University	0	10	10	20
George Mason A	UMBC A	0	10	10	20
George Washington B	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown B	Maryland D	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Penn B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins C	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
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NYU A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
WashU D	SIUE	0	0	0	0
WashU A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
WashU B	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Macalester A	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Wisconsin	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Nebraska	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
St. Thomas	Carleton	0	0	0	0
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Brown B	BC A	0	0	0	0
Yale B	BC B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	BU	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin B	Amherst B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Wilson	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Cornell-UG	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Brown C	0	0	10	10
Yale A	MIT A	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brandeis Orlando	0	0	10	10
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Williams	Harvard	0	0	10	10
Alberta	British Columbia D	0	0	10	10
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Northwestern B	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
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UCO	Rose State	0	10	10	20
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Syracuse	ESF	0	0	0	0
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20