L’uomo, il poeta e il baco da seta. Tasso alla corte di Weimar

Aim of the paper is to investigate Goethe’s dramatic work Torquato Tasso (1789), in order to highlight the echo of Weimar Grand duchy’s atmosphere in the literary reconstruction of Belriguardo’s court. The same character of Tasso represents not only Goethe’s attitudes and intime contrasts, but also a confrontation with J.M.R. Lenz, i.e. with the emblematic author of the “Sturm und Drang”.