Pathways through Literature - Italian writers

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	I. Early life
	II. Studies and early writings
	III. The Ferrara period
	IV. 1575-1579
	V. Seven prison years
	VI. In search of a home
	VII. Tasso's last years, Rome, and the Aldobrandini family