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List of most recent chapters published for the Renaissance in Italy novel. A total of 208 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Renaissance in Italy.Volume 1.by John Addington Symonds.PREFACE.This volume is the First
Renaissance in Italy.Volume 1.by John Addington Symonds.PREFACE.This volume is the First Part of a work upon the 'Renaissance in Italy.'The Second Part treats of the Revival of Learning. The Third, of the Fine Arts. The Fourth Part, in two volum
- 208 II.Permanence and h.o.m.ogeneity are not to be predicated of 'anything that's merely ours and mortal.' We have missed the whole teaching of history if we wail aloud because Greek and Roman culture succ.u.mbed to barbarism, out of which medi
- 207 [Footnote 230: Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio (1569-1609).][Footnote 231: For the historian of manners in seventeenth-century Italy those pictures have a truly precious value, as they are executed with such pa.s.sion as to raise them above the more c
- 206 These profound sentences are the epitaph, not only of imitative poetry, but also of such eclectic art as the Caracci inst.i.tuted. Very little of it bears examination now. We regard it with listlessness or loathing. We turn from it without regret. We cann
- 205 The composers, to advance another step in the a.n.a.lysis of this strange medley, took particular delight in combining different sets of words, melodies of widely diverse character, antagonistic rhythms and divergent systems of accentuation in a single pi
- 204 One example will serve as well as many to ill.u.s.trate the false att.i.tude a.s.sumed by Chiabrera when he posed as a new Pindar in the midst of seventeenth-century Italians. I will select the Ode to Don Cesare d'Este. There is something patheticall
- 203 Granted his own conditions, granted the emptiness of moral and intellectual substance in the man and in his age, we are compelled to acknowledge that his literary powers were rich and various. Few writers, at the same time, ill.u.s.trate the vices of deca
- 202 Fur._ i. 42, 43, and xxiv. 80) on which it has been modeled, we shall perceive how much Guarini lost in force by not writing with his eye upon the object or with the authenticity of inward vision, but with a self-conscious effort to improve by artifices a
- 201 Soon after 1600 it became manifest that lapse of years and ecclesiastical intolerance had rendered Italy nearly dest.i.tute of great men. Her famous sons were all either dead, murdered or exiled; reduced to silence by the scythe of time or by the Roman &#
- 200 [Footnote 151: _Opere di Paolo Sarpi_, Helmstadt, 1761, vol. i. pp. 200, 233, 311; vol. ii. pp. 89, 187.][Footnote 152: This contradicts the opinion of Hallam and Macaulay, both of whom were convinced that Sarpi was a Protestant at heart. Macaulay wishes
- 199 [Footnote 132: Sarpi's _Life_ by Fra Fulgenzio, p. 64.]Paul V. a.s.sumed the tiara with the fixed resolve of making good the Papal claims to supremacy. Between Venice and the Holy See numerous disputed points of jurisdiction, relating to the semi-ecc
- 198 Whatever we may think of the good taste of Bruno's sarcasms upon the faith in which he had been bred--and it is certain that he never rightly apprehended Christianity in its essence--there is no doubt he died a valiant martyr to the truth as he conceived
- 197 [Footnote 99: They were published at Frankfort, and dedicated to the friendly Prince of Wolfenb.u.t.tel.]At Helmstadt he came into collision with Boetius, the rector of the Evangelical church, who issued a sentence of excommunication against him. Like a n
- 196 These _novi homines_ of the later Renaissance, as Bacon called them, these _novatori_, as they were contemptuously styled in Italy, prepared the further emanc.i.p.ation of the intellect by science. They a.s.serted the liberty of thought and speech, procla
- 195 Vagueness, therefore, had hitherto found no place in European poetry or plastic art. But music, the supreme symbol of spiritual infinity in art, was now about to be developed; and the specific touch of Ta.s.so, the musician-poet, upon portraiture and feel
- 194 Ond' e ch'or tanto ardire in voi s'alletti? (ix. 76: _Inf._ ix.) A guisa di leon quando si posa (x. 56: _Purg._ vi.) e guardi e pa.s.si (xx. 43: _Inf._ in.) As in the _Rinaldo_, so also in the _Gerusalemme_, Ta.s.so's cla.s.sical proclivities betrayed
- 193 If the _Rinaldo_ prefigures Ta.s.so's maturer qualities of style, it is no less conspicuous for the light it throws upon his eminent poetic faculty. Nothing distinguished him more decidedly from the earlier romantic poets than power over pathetic sentime
- 192 On April 25, Ta.s.so expired at midnight, with the words _In ma.n.u.s tuas, Domine_, upon his lips. Had Costantini, his sincerest friend, been there, he might have said like Kent: O, let him pa.s.s! he hates him much That would upon the rack of this tough
- 191 [Footnote 40: _Lettere_, ibid. p. 289.][Footnote 41: _Lettere_, ibid. p. 233.]The sequestration of his only copy of the _Gerusalemme_ not unnaturally caused him much distress; and Veniero adds that the chief difficulty under which he labored was want of m
- 190 Such being the temper of his mind, Ta.s.so at this epoch turned his thoughts to bettering himself, as servants say. His friend Scipione Gonzaga pointed out that both the Cardinal de'Medici and the Grand Duke of Tuscany would be glad to welcome him as an
- 189 [Footnote 7: Dated February 13, 1556.][Footnote 8: See _Opere_, vol. iv. p. 100, for Ta.s.so's description of the farewell to his mother, which he remembered deeply, even in later life.][Footnote 9: _Lettere_, vol. i. p. 6.]In the midst of these afflicti
- 188 FRA PAOLO SARPI.Sarpi's Position in the History of Venice--Parents and Boyhood--Entrance into the Order of the Servites--His Personal Qualities--Achievements as a Scholar and a Man of Science--His Life among the Servites--In Bad Odor at Rome--Paul V.
- 187 VERVINS, the Treaty of, i. 48, 56.VETTORI, Francesco, i. 33.VIRGIL, Ta.s.so's admiration of, ii. 25; translations and adaptations from, 98.VISCONTI, the dynasty of, i. 8.---Valentina, grandmother of Louis XII. of France, i. 8.VITELLI, Alessandro, i.
- 186 STERILITY of Protestantism, ii. 401.STROZZI, Filippo, i. 46.---Piero, i. 47.T Ta.s.sO, Bernardo (father of Torquato), i. 38; his birth and parentage, ii. 5; the _Amadigi_, 7, 11, 18, 35; his youth and marriage, 7; misfortunes, _ib._; exile and poverty, 8;
- 185 SACRED Palace, the Master of the: censor of books in Rome, i. 201.SALMERON, Alfonzo, a.s.sociate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 240; in Naples and Sicily, 254.SALUZZO ceded to Savoy, i. 56.SALVIATI, Leonardo, a critic of the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, ii. 72.SAMMINI
- 184 'PRINCEPS Musicae,' the t.i.tle inscribed on Palestrina's tomb, ii. 325.PRINTING: effects of the Index Expurgatorius on the trade in Venice, i. 192; firms denounced by name by Paul IV., 198, 208.PROFESSED of three and of four vows (Jesuit g
- 183 PALAZZO Vernio, Academy (musical) of the, ii. 340; distinguished composers of its school, 341.PALEARIO, Aonio: his opinion of the Index, i. 197, 214.PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pier Luigi: his birth and early musical training, ii. 323; uneventful life of the _Pr
- 182 MODENA and Bologna, humors of the conflict between, ii. 304.MONOPOLIES, system of, in Italy, i. 49.MONTALTO, Cardinal, nephew of Sixtus V., i. 157.MONTEBELLO, Baron, the tale of, i. 428.MONTECATINO, Antonio, an enemy of Ta.s.so at Ferrara, ii. 48, 50, 60,
- 181 MAIN events in modern history, the, ii. 383 _sqq._ MALATESTA, Roberto, leader of bandits in the Papal States, i. 152.MALIPIERO, Alessandro, a friend of Sarpi, ii. 210.MALVASIA, Count C.C., writings of, on the Bolognese painters, ii. 350 _n._ MANRESA, Igna
- 180 INGEGNERI, Antonio, a friend of Ta.s.so, ii. 64; publishes the _Gerusalemme_, 71.INDEX Expurgatorius: its first publication at Venice, i. 192; effects on the printing trade there, 193; the Index in concert with the Inquisition, 194; origin of the Index, 1
- 179 GERSON'S _Considerations upon Papal Excommunications_, translated by Sarpi, ii. 200.'GERUSALEMME Conquistata,' Ta.s.so's, ii. 75, 114 _sq._, 124.'GERUSALEMME Liberata:' at first called _Gottifredo_, ii. 35; its dedication, 38
- 178 EMIGRANTS from Italy, regulations of the Inquisition regarding, i. 227.ENZO, King (of Sardinia), a prisoner at Bologna, ii. 304.EPIC poetry, Italian speculations on, ii. 24; Ta.s.so's Dialogues on, 26.'EROICI Furori, Gli,' Bruno's, ii.
- 177 'CONFIRMATIONS,' Fra Fulgenzio's, ii. 201.CONSERVATISM and Liberalism, necessary contest between, ii. 386.'CONSIDERATIONS on the Censures,' Sarpi's, ii. 201.CONSTANCE, Council of, i. 92.CONTARINI, Gasparo: his negotiations be
- 176 CANELLO, U.A., on Italian society in the sixteenth century, i. 304 _n._ CANISIUS, lieutenant of Loyola in Austria, i. 259; appointed to the administration of the see of Vienna, 260.CANOSSA, Antonio, conspirator against Pius IV., i. 132.CAPELLO, Bianca, th
- 175 BARNABITES, Order of the: their foundation, i. 80.BAROCCIO, Federigo, ii. 349.BAROZZA, a Venetian courtezan, i. 394, 396.BASEL, Council of, i. 94.BEARD, unshorn, worn in sign of mourning, i. 36.BEDELL, William (Bishop of Kilmore), on Fra Paolo and Fra Ful
- 174 A ACADEMIES, Italian, the flouris.h.i.+ng time of, i. 52.ACCIAIUOLI, Roberto, i. 33.ACCOLTI, Benedetto, conspirator against Pius IV., i. 132.ACCORAMBONI, Claudio (father of Vittoria), i. 356.---Marcello (brother of Vittoria): intrigues for the marriage of
- 173 The relations of trust which _bravi_ occasionally maintained with foreign Courts, supply some curious ill.u.s.trations of their position in Italian society. One characteristic instance may be selected from doc.u.ments in the Venetian Archives referring to
- 172 Eleonora de'Medici, third of his daughters, introduces a comic element into these funereal records. She was affianced to Vincenzo Gonzaga, heir of the Duchy of Mantua. But suspicions, arising out of the circ.u.mstances of his divorce from a former wi
- 171 A chronic illness from which Bracciano had lately suffered furnished a sufficient pretext. This seems to have been something of the nature of a cancerous ulcer, which had to be treated by the application of raw meat to open sores. Such details are only ex
- 170 It is untrue that at Florence, or at Venice, he has cast one glance on any other woman. Let lightning strike him, if he deserts Umilia. But she has caused him jealousy by stooping to a base amour. To this point he returns with some persistence. Then he en
- 169 _The Lady of Monza_.Virginia Maria de Leyva was a descendant of Charles V.'s general, Antonio de Leyva, who through many years administered the Duchy of Milan, and died loaded with wealth and honors.[188][Footnote 186: In support of this a.s.sertion
- 168 (_ibid._ p. 105). 'When they play a losing game, they yet rise winners from the table. For it is their habit to insinuate themselves upon any condition demanded, having arts enough whereby to make themselves masters of those who bind them by prescrib
- 167 To take firm hold on Germany had been the cherished wish of Ignatius; 'for there,' to use his own words, 'the pest of heresy exposed men to graver dangers than elsewhere.' The Society had scarcely been founded when Faber, Le Jay, and B
- 166 CHAPTER IV.THE COMPANY OF JESUS.Vast Importance of the Jesuits in the Counter-Reformation--Ignatius Loyola--His Youth--Retreat at Manresa--Journey to Jerusalem--Studies in Spain and Paris--First Formation of his Order at Sainte Barbe--Sojourn at Venice--S
- 165 [Footnote 130: Sarpi's Letters abound in useful information on this topic. Writing to French correspondents, he complains weekly of the impossibility even in Venice of obtaining books. See, for instance, _Lettere_, vol. i. pp. 286, 287, 360, vol. ii.
- 164 How little the subjects of S. Mark at this epoch trusted the good faith of laws securing liberty of thought in Venice, may be gathered from what happened immediately after the publication of the Index Expurgatorius in 1596. From an official report upon th
- 163 Meanwhile, the Inquisition rapidly took shape. In 1483 Thomas of Torquemada was nominated Inquisitor General for Castile and Aragon.Under his rule a Supreme Council was established, over which he presided for life. The crown sent three a.s.sessors to this
- 162 I have introduced this sketch of Gregory's relations in order to show how a Pope of his previous habits and personal proclivities was now obliged to follow the new order of the Church. It was noticed that the mode of life in Rome during his reign str
- 161 Menaces, meanwhile, had been astutely mingled with cajoleries. The French and the Imperial Courts were growing anxious on the subject of reform in secular establishments. Pius had threatened to raise the whole question of national Churches and the monarch
- 160 Aretino, with his usual blackguardly pointedness of expression, has given a hint of what the new _regime_ implied in the following satiric lines:-- Carafla, ipocrita infingardo, Che tien per coscienza spirituale Quando si mette del pepe in sul cardo.Paul
- 159 The Pope who succeeded Clement VII. in 1534 was in all ways fitted to represent the transition which I have indicated. Alessandro Farnese sprang from an ancient but decayed family in the neighborhood of Bolsena, several of whose members had played a forem
- 158 [Footnote 6: See, for instance, temp. Henri IV., _Sarpi's Letters_, vol.i. p. 233.]Yet the cession of Saluzzo was really the first dawn of hope for Italy.It determined the House of Savoy as an Italian dynasty, and brought for the first time into the
- 157 Renaissance in Italy.by John Addington Symonds.RENAISSANCE IN ITALY _THE CATHOLIC REACTION_ PART I NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1887 _AUTHOR'S EDITION_ PREFACE.At the end of the second volume of my 'Renaissance in Italy' I indulged the h
- 156 APPENDIX III._On Palmieri's "Citta di Vita."_ (_To ill.u.s.trate Part I. p. 171._) In the first part of this sketch of Italian literary history (_Renaissance in Italy_, vol. iv. p. 171, note 2) I promised, if possible, to give some further
- 155 "That frugal diet of plain herb and root You've changed to-day for quails and partridges; Some miracle has turned to flesh their fruit, Their acorns, brambles, and wild strawberries; The straw they slept on, hath grown dissolute With down and cu
- 154 We have learned to look upon it as the biography of man. To trace the continuity of civilization through the labyrinths of chance and error and suspended energy, apparent to a superficial glance or partial knowledge, but on closer observation and a wider
- 153 At the middle of the fifteenth century their communes had lost political liberty, and were ruled by despots. Martial spirit declined.Wars were carried on by mercenaries; and the people found itself in a state of practical disarmament, when the neighboring
- 152 [Footnote 567: For this argument he refers to Plato in cap. xiv.: "Sive animus mortalis sit, sive immortalis, nihilominus contemnenda est mors, neque alio pacto declinandum est a virtute quicquid accidat post mortem."][Footnote 568: See especial
- 151 The Renaissance in general may be called the Middle Ages in dissolution. That the period was transitional in its chief aspects, has often already been insisted on. The ma.s.sive fabrics of feudalism and the Church were breaking up. The vast edifice of sch
- 150 Qui giace l'Aretin poeta tosco, Che disse mal d'ognun fuorche di Cristo, Scusandosi col dir: non lo conosco.[Footnote 543: These lines have been, without authority, ascribed to Giovio; they may thus be rendered: Here lieth Aretine, in prose and
- 149 [Footnote 516: The Papal Court was attacked by him; but none other that I can discover. The only Prince who felt the rough side of his tongue was the Farnese: Impara tu, Pierluigi ammorbato, Impara, Ducarel da sei quattrini, Il costume d'un Re si ono
- 148 ecco il flagello De' principi, il divin Pietro Aretino.]Pietro was born at Arezzo in 1492. His reputed father was a n.o.bleman of that city, named Luigi Bacci. His mother, t.i.ta, was a woman of the town, whose portrait, painted as the Virgin of the
- 147 Ch'ormai ogni paese Hai ammorbato, ogn'uom, ogn'animale, Il ciel e Dio e 'l diavol ti vuol male.Quelle veste ducale, O ducali accattate e furfantate, Che ti piangono addosso sventurate, A suon di bastonate Ti saran tratte, prima che tu
- 146 Berni's theory of poetry revealed a common-sense and insight which were no less rare than commendable in that age of artificial literature. He refused to write at command, pleading that spontaneity of inspiration is essential to art, and quoting Vida
- 145 After pa.s.sing the Furies, and entering the very jaws of Hades, Baldus encounters the fantasies of grammarians and humanists, the idle nonsense of the schoolmen, all the lumber of medieval philosophy mixed with the trifles of the Renaissance.[443] He fig
- 144 Protinus Introitum spazzant talqualiter omnem, Ad Chyrios veniunt, quos miro dicere sentis c.u.m contrappunto, veluti si cantor adesset Master Adria.n.u.s, Constantius atque Jachettus.Hic per dolcezzam scorlabant corda vilani Quando de quintis terzisque c
- 143 [Footnote 424: In the first book of the _Moscheis_, line 7, he says: Gens ceratana sinat vecchias cantare batajas, Squarzet Virgilios turba pedanta suos.The end of the _Maccaronea_ sets forth the impossibility of modern bards contending with the great poe
- 142 [Footnote 409: Take one example, from the induction to Oda.s.si's poems (_Mac. Andr._ p. 63): O putanarum putanissima, vacca vaccarum, O potifarum potissima pota potaza ...Tu Phrosina mihi foveas, mea sola voluptas; Nulla mihi poterit melius succurre
- 141 Folengo, of course, has a mistress, to whom he turns at the proper moments of his narrative. This _mia diva Caritunga_ is a caricature of the fas.h.i.+onable Laura. See v. 1, 2: O donna mia, ch'hai gli occhi, ch'hai l'orecchie, Quelli di pi
- 140 [Footnote 375: _Op. cit._ p. 385.]Whatever may have been the crimes of Giulio against his father, Trissino used a cruel and unpardonable revenge upon his eldest son.Not content with blackening his character under the name of Agrilupo in the _Italia Libera
- 139 [Footnote 349: See _Revival of Learning_, p. 375.][Footnote 350: Rinaldo Corso, quoted by Tiraboschi.]Fabrizio, the father of Vittoria Colonna, was Grand Constable of Naples. He married Agnesina di Montefeltro, daughter of Duke Federigo of Urbino. Their c
- 138 Or this from a _Canzone_ on his love (No. 2): Qual chiuso albergo in solitario bosco Pien di sospetto suol pregar talora Corrier di notte traviato e la.s.so; Tal io per entro il tuo dubbioso, e fosco.E duro calle, Amor, corro e trapa.s.so.][Footnote 333:
- 137 He had secured the hearing of the world by his _Asolani_. Women and the leaders of fas.h.i.+onable society were with him; and he pushed his arguments home against the Latinizing humanists. "To abandon our own language for another," he reminded t
- 136 Luigi Alamanni was the greatest Italian poet of whose services Francis I. could boast, as Cellini was the greatest Italian artist. His works are numerous, and all are marked by the same qualities of limpid facility, tending to prolixity and feebleness. So
- 135 [Footnote 285: In the chapter on Burlesque Poetry I shall have to justify this remark.][Footnote 286: See _Revival of Learning_, p. 488.][Footnote 287: The best Life of Molza is that written by Pierantonio Sera.s.si, Bergamo, 1747. It is republished, with
- 134 Whether the distinctively Neapolitan note can be discerned in Sannazzaro, seems more than doubtful. As in his Sapphic Odes and Piscatory Eclogues, so also in his _Arcadia_ we detect the working of a talent self-restrained within the limits of finely-tempe
- 133 What has been well called _la volutta idillica_--the sensuous sensibility to beauty, finding fit expression in the Idyl--formed a marked characteristic of Renaissance art and literature. Boccaccio developed this idyllic motive in all his works which dealt
- 132 Nothing but the brilliance of the poet's wit reconciles us to his revelation of perversity. Aretino, by the animation of his sketches, by his prurient delight in what is vile, makes us comprehend that even the _Mandragola_ was possible. Machiavelli s
- 131 [Footnote 203: Act v. scs. 2 and 3.]Meanwhile the _Mandragola_ is claiming our attention. In that comedy, Machiavelli put forth all his strength. Sinister and repulsive as it may be to modern tastes, its power is indubitable. More than any plays of which
- 130 _Frate._ Ora sia _in nomine_ _Domini_, porterolla, e mostrerolla A chi vi pare.[Footnote 185: Act iv. sc. 4. In the last line but one, ought we not to read _mostreratela_ or else _mostrerollavi_?]We may further notice how the parish priest is here meant t
- 129 The year 1502, when Lucrezia Borgia came as Alfonso d'Este's bride to Ferrara, marks the climax of these Latin spectacles.[162] Ercole had arranged a theater in the Palace of the Podesta (now called the Palazzo della Ragione), which was connecte
- 128 [Footnote 140: It is certainly significant that the Spanish share with the English the chief honors both of the ballad and the drama. The Scandinavian nations, rich in ballads, have been, through Danish poets, successful in dramatic composition. The Niebe
- 127 One beautiful story, borrowed from the annals of their own city, was treated by the two Sienese novelists, Illicini and Sermini. The palm of excellence, however, must be awarded to the elder of these authors.Of Bernardo Lapini, surnamed Illicini or Ollici
- 126 Most of them turn upon the foibles and the vices of the clergy. The fourth _Novella_, which is perhaps the best of all in style and humor, presents a truly comic picture of the parish priest, while the fifth describes the interior of a dissolute convent a
- 125 The same judgment may be pa.s.sed upon a large portion of the _Novelle_ which deal with secular characters. They are indecent anecdotes, and do not ill.u.s.trate any specific quality in the author or in the temper of his times.[71] The seasoning of horror
- 124 [Footnote 53: Canto xliii. 169.]Homer had compared the wound of Menelaus to ivory stained by a Maeonian woman with crimson.[54] Ariosto refines on this conceit:[55]Cos talora un bel purpureo nastro Ho veduto partir tela d'argento Da quella bianca man
- 123 [Footnote 28: Canto x.x.xvi., especially stanza 50.][Footnote 29: Canto x.x.xix. 10-15; cp. _ib._ 67-72.][Footnote 30: Canto x.x.xvii. 15.][Footnote 31: Canto x.x.xix. 69.]After the more finished portrait of Bradamante, we find in Isabella and Fiordeligi,
- 122 Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature.by John Addington Symonds.PART II CHAPTER IX.THE ORLANDO FURIOSO._Orlando Furioso_ and _Divina Commedia_--Ariosto expresses the Renaissance as Dante the Middle Ages--Definition of Romantic, Heroic, Burlesque, Heroi
- 121 If I diverge a hand's breadth from the way, One croaks, one scolds, while everybody cries, "Ware madman!" when he sees me trip or stray.I've made my mind up to a hermit's life, So irksome are the crowd and all their strife.Erewhil
- 120 So that it seems from what I learn and see, That what I say, and worse, is like to be."What Gano with Marsilio planned before, I know not, since I did not think thereon: But he's the same, methinks, he was of yore; Wherefore this needs no divina
- 119 "Faith's as man gets it, this, that, or another!See then what sort of creed I'm bound to follow: For you must know a Greek nun was my mother, My sire at Brusa, mid the Turks, a mollah; I played the rebeck first, and made a pother About the
- 118 Why didst thou so wound me?Why breaks my heart through thee, My heart which burns with Love?It burns and glows and finds no place to stay; It cannot fly, for it is bound so tight; It melts like wax before the flame away; Living, it dies; swoons, faints, d
- 117 She with left hand cradling Rocked and hushed her boy, And with holy lullabies Quieted her toy.Who so churlish but would rise To behold heaven's joy Sleeping?--In what darkness drowned, Dead and renegade?-- Little angels all around Danced, and carols
- 116 _THE CRY FOR COURTESY._ Courtesy! Courtesy! Courtesy! I call: But from no quarter comes there a reply.They who should show her, hide her; wherefore I And whoso needs her, ill must us befall.Greed with his hook hath ta'en men one and all, And murdered
- 115 Non puesc mudar q'un chantar non esparja.This fact will seem to many minds conclusive on the point in question.But, following the investigations of recent scholars, we find this form of verse pretty generally referred to the watch-song of the Modenes
- 114 Quis patre invicto gerit Hercule fortius arma, Mystica quis casto castius Hippolyto?In another epigram, written on the death of the Cardinal, he pretends that Ippolito, hearing of Alfonso's illness, vowed his own life for his brother's and was a
- 113 The first three years after his father's death were spent by Ariosto in the neighborhood of Reggio, and to this period of his life we may perhaps refer some of the love-affairs celebrated in his Latin poems. He held the Captaincy of Canossa, a small
- 112 [560] _Sonetti e Canzone [sic] del poeta clarissimo Matteo Maria Boiardo Conte di Scandiano_, Milano, 1845. The descriptions of natural beauty, especially of daybreak and the morning star, of dewy meadows, and of flowers, in which these lyrics abound, are
- 111 [527] The _Reali di Francia_ sets forth this legendary genealogy at great length, and stops short at the coronation of Charles in Rome and the discovery of Roland. Considering the dryness of its subject-matter, it is significant that this should have surv
- 110 The love lamentations of Prasildo, the love-languors of Angelica, the frenzy of Marfisa, the wrath of Ferraguto, the truculency of Rodamonte, the impish craft of Brunello, Origille's cunning, Brandimarte's fervor, Ruggiero's impatience to t
- 109 Chivalry at no time took firm root in Italy, where the first act of the Communes upon their achievement of independence had been to suppress feudalism by forcing the n.o.bles to reside as burghers within their walls. The true centers of national vitality