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People

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

, Italian 16th-century poet, author of ''Gerusalemme liberata'' **'' Tasso, Lament and Triumph'', a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt based on the poet **''

'', a play by Goethe based on the life of the poet * Bernardo Tasso, his father, also a poet * Faustino Tasso, Italian monk and poet * Henri Tasso, French politician *

Takuya Tasso is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Iwate Prefecture. He is a native of Morioka and graduate of the University of Tokyo. Biography Tasso joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, receiving a master's degree in internati ...

, the governor of Iwate Prefecture in Japan *

Tasso Jereissati Tasso Ribeiro Jereissati (born 15 December 1948) is federal senator of Brazil. He is a former governor of Ceará Ceará (, ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, northeastern part of the country, on the ...

, Brazilian politician *

Tasso of Friuli Tasso (or Taso) (died 617) was the joint Duke of Friuli with his younger brother Kakko from their father's death (611) to their own. Their father was Gisulf II and their mother Romilda of Friuli. In or around 611, Gisulf was killed fending off an ...

, early 7th-century Lombard duke

Places

* Tasso, Corse-du-Sud, a commune on Corsica, France * Tasso Island, in the

Sierra Leone River The Sierra Leone River is a river estuary on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Sierra Leone. It is formed by the Bankasoka River and Rokel River and is between 4 and 10 miles wide (6–16 km) and 25 miles (40 km) long. It holds the major po ...

* Tasso River, a river in Mumbai, India * Tasso, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Bradley County, Tennessee *Tasso, Lumarzo, Genova, Liguria, Italy, a village (frazione) within the community (comune) of Lumarzo in Genoa province, Italy *Tasso, a portion of the

Sagittario (river) The Sagittario is a river in Italy. It is located primarily in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. The river is the main tributary of the Aterno-Pescara. Its source is located near Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e M ...

* Tasso, Benin, a town and arrondissement in Benin

Other uses

TASSO TASSO (Two Arm Spectrometer SOlenoid) was a particle detector at the PETRA particle accelerator at the German national laboratory DESY. The TASSO collaboration is best known for having discovered the gluon, the mediator of the strong interaction an ...

, the name of a particle detector and the group of physicists working with it *

Tasso (horse) Tasso (foaled April 20, 1983, in Florida) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the Champion two-year-old of 1985 after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Background Tasso was bred by Gerald Robbins and Timothy Sams of Waldemar Fa ...

, an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Tasso (meat product) or Tasso ham, a specialty of Cajun cuisine {{disambig, surname, geo