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A painting by Fleury Richard acquired by Bordeaux
6/7/23 - Acquisition - Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts - I was even more displeased than compassionate to see him in Ferrara in such a pitiful state, outliving himself, unaware of both himself and his works, which, without his knowledge, and nevertheless at his sight, were brought to light incorrigible and shapeless". Thus Montaigne recounted in his Essais the visit he made to Tasso during his trip to Italy in 1580-1581. The author of Jerusalem Delivered had himself been to Paris in 1571, where he had met Ronsard. He was ill-tempered and suffered from a mental illness which, in 1579, forced Duke Alphonse II d’Este to have him committed to Sant’Anna, a hospital for the insane in Ferrara. He stayed there for seven years. In evoking the man he considered to be one of the most ingenious of…
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