(7th of October.) His Death 95 TORQUATO TASSO, SON OF BERNARDO TASSO. Their Ancestors 98 1493. Bernardo Tasso appointed Secretary of State to Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno 99 His Marriage with Portia Rossi 100 1544. (11th of March.) Torquato Tasso, his Birth 101 Bernardo Tasso joins his Patron in the War 102 Infancy of Torquato 103 Return of Bernardo from the War 103 1552. The Prince of Salerno and his Adherents declared Rebels 104 Bernardo, his Exile 104 Torquato Tasso, his Separation from his Mother; Lines written by him on this Occasion 105 He and Cowper compared 107 1556. Death of his Mother 108 Torquato Tasso at Rome with his Father 108 Is implicated in his reputed Treason 109 His Letter to Vittoria Colonna on the Marriage of his Sister Cornelia 110 Letter of Bernardo to his Daughter 110 Bernardo flies to Ravenna 111 He is invited to Pesaro 111 Vicissitudes of Bernardo Tasso 112 Torquato Tasso, his Studies 114 Boileau 115 "Joan of Arc" 117 "Curiosities of Literature" 118 Torquato translates his Father's Poems and Letters 118 "Amadigi" 119 Torquato Tasso studies Jurisprudence at Padua 122 His "Rinaldo" 122 Epic Poetry 125 "Gerusalemme Liberata" 126 Torquato leaves the Study of the Law, and repairs to Bologna 127 He returns to Padua and establishes the Degli Eterei 128 His "Discourses on Heroic Poetry" 130 1564. He visits his Father at Mantua 130 His Illness 131 1569. Bernardo Tasso, his Death 131