Torquaʹto—i.e
. Torquato Tasso, the poet. (1544–1595.) (See Alfonso.)
“And see how dearly earned Torquato’s fame.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.