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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