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In late sixteenth-century Europe, Tasso's name was a synonym for madness. The Elizabethan stage hosted a play on "Tasso's Melancholy"; Montaigne belatedly recalled observing the "mad poet" in prison. Biographers and dramatists spread the myth into the nineteenth century, but Tasso's dialogues and letters tell a more complex and nuanced story of suffering and struggle, life and work.