mosti's

Updated: July 13, 2026

This inhuman persecution was caused by Mosti's jealously of Tasso as the rival of his beloved master Ariosto, to whom at his own cost he had erected a monument in the church of the Benedictines at Ferrara. For a whole year Tasso endured all the horrors of the sordid cell in which he was immured.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood