Torquato Tasso (c. 1544-1595)
“The eye sees falsely, by sheer speed deceived;
and fear makes fraud more readily believed.”
- The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, Canto 20) by Torquato Tasso and translated by Max Wickert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.











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