Possible Clues:

• 'Never a man's thought in the world keeps to the - - - better than thine' (Henry IV Part two)
• Old poet's day is over - who cares?
• Italian poet, author of Aminta
• Italian poet a fool, breaking good books up
• Torquato ---, It. poet
• In principle in China one finds extremely sagacious poet
• Poet's big day coming up
• Italian poet of 'Rinaldo'
• Liszt symphonic poem
• Renaissance Italian poet