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