Possible Clues:

• Italian epic poet
• Italian Renaissance poet
• "Jerusalem Delivered" poet
• ''Jerusalem Delivered'' poet
• 'Jerusalem Delivered' poet
• Torquato --, Italian poet (1544-95)
• Dante's compatriot has taken to eating something like horse
• Italian poet Torquato
• 16th-century Sorrento-born poet
• Torquato -, sixteenth century Italian poet