The long and the short of this would seem to be, then, that Tasso, like many men of his era, was capable of both homo- and heterosexual feelings. That doesn't seem to be an issue deserving of so much space. It would have to be said, though, that as far as his poetry is concerned, Tasso's heterosexual character, his love of feminine beauty, his appreciation of male/female relations and his tendency to idealize them, crowds out anything homoerotic by about a hundred to one. He is one of the greatest singers of heterosexual love in all of literature.