Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: House of Thurn and Taxis, Torquato Tasso, Thurn und Taxis, Princess Lida of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Czech branch of the House of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis, Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis, Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, Duchess Auguste of Württemberg, Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Princess Eulalia of Thurn and Taxis, Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Mathilde Sophie of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg, Thurn-und-Taxis-Post, Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Maximilian Anton Lamoral, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Iniga of Thurn and Taxis, Baroness Wilhelmine of Dörnberg, Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Sophie Friederike of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Isabel Maria of Braganza, Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis, Fritz von Thurn und Taxis, Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino, Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Margravine Sophie Christine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Princess Maria Sophia of Thurn and Taxis, Prince Ludwig Philipp of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Maria Anna of Braganza, Carlo Alessandro, 3rd Duke of Castel Duino, Princess Louise of Thurn and Taxis, Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino, Princess Christa of Thurn and Taxis, Taxis-Bordogna-Valnigra, Bernardo Tasso, House of Thurn and Taxis line of succession, Order of Parfaite Amitié. Excerpt: Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 - 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe. Born in Sorrento, he was the son of Bernardo Tasso, a nobleman of Bergamo and an epic and lyric poet of considerable fame in his day, and his wife Porzia de Rossi, a noblewoman from Tuscany. His father had for many years been secretary in the service of Ferrante Sanseverino, prince of Salerno, and his mother was closely connected with the most illustrious Neapolitan families. When the prince of Salerno came into collision with the Spanish government of Naples, was outlawed, and was deprived of his hereditary fiefs, Tasso's father shared in this his patron's fate. He was proclaimed a rebel to the state, together with his son Torquato, and his patrimony was sequestered. These things happened during the boy's childhood. In 1552 he ...