Possible Clues:

• Poet's two sons gripped by Chinese philosophy
• 16th-century Italian poet
• Torquato —, Italian poet
• Torquato —, Italian poet of the 16th-century
• Renaissance poet
• Son took exam about old poet
• He offered his own Apologia, but Byron his lament
• Italian poet who was the subject of a Goethe play and a Donizetti opera
• Poet brooded over note to singers
• For reporting, journalists are indebted to poet