When asked who he was and whither he was going, he answered: 'I was born in the realm of Naples, and my mother was a Neapolitan; but I draw my paternal blood from Bergamo, a Lombard city.
My name and surname I pass in silence: they are so obscure that if I uttered them, you would know neither more nor less of my condition.

I am flying from the anger of a prince and fortune.

My destination is the state of Savoy.' Upon this pilgrimage Tasso chose the sobriquet of _Omero Fuggiguerra_.

Arriving at Turin, he was refused entrance by the guardians of the gate.

The rags upon his back made them suspect he was a vagabond infected with the plague.