Explanation: Torquato Tasso, a 16th century AD Italian poet, penned an epic which became one of the great pieces of European literary canon.
… he was also terrified that it might be heretical, and solicited views from others in the hopes of discovering what exactly was heretical about it so he could change it. He at least once went to far as to self-denounce himself to the Inquisition (who determined he was NOT a heretic after a short interview).
He ended his days with spiraling sanity and out-of-control paranoia.
Explanation: Torquato Tasso, a 16th century AD Italian poet, penned an epic which became one of the great pieces of European literary canon.
… he was also terrified that it might be heretical, and solicited views from others in the hopes of discovering what exactly was heretical about it so he could change it. He at least once went to far as to self-denounce himself to the Inquisition (who determined he was NOT a heretic after a short interview).
He ended his days with spiraling sanity and out-of-control paranoia.