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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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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	17.50	83%	75%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	7	7.14	43%	29%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	12.86	71%	57%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	17.27	82%	73%	18%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
North	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%

Data


CWRU C	CWRU D	0	0	0
OSU D	MSU A	10	10	20
Pitt C	MSU B	0	0	0
CWRU B	OSU A	10	10	20
OSU C	OSU B	10	10	20
Pitt A	CWRU A	10	10	20
Kenyon B	Pitt B	0	10	10