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Torquato Tasso (1909)

Torquato Tasso poster
Directed by
Luigi Maggi
Genre
silent film
Country
Italy
Runtime
13 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film from 1909. It shows scenes from the life of the writer Torquato Tasso, who lived in 1500s Italy and wrote the famous poem Jerusalem Delivered. The movie was directed by Luigi Maggi.

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What happens

Torquato Tasso è un cortometraggio muto italiano del 1909 diretto e interpretato da Luigi Maggi. La pellicola, prodotta dalla Ambrosio Film, è la prima a narrare della vita dello scrittore cortigiano Torquato Tasso, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVI secolo, autore famoso della Gerusalemme liberata. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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