c., 1832,
ii. _s.f._)

[576] "And if the virtue or prudence of Laura was inexorable, he
enjoyed, and might boast of enjoying, the nymph of poetry."--_Decline
and Fall_, 1818, chap. lxx. p. 321, vol. xii. 8vo. Perhaps the _if_ is
here meant for _although_.

[577] {484} _Remarks on Antiquities, etc., in Italy_, by Joseph Forsyth,
p. 107, note.

[578] {485} _La Vita di Tasso_, lib. iii. p. 284 (tom. ii. edit.
Bergamo, 1790).

[579] _Histoire de l'Academie Francaise depuis_ 1652 _jusqu'a_ 1700, par
M. l' Abbe [Thoulier] d'Olivet, Amsterdam, 1730. "Mais, ensuite, venant
a l'usage qu'il a fait de ses talens, j'aurois montre que le bon sens
n'est pas toujours ce qui domine chez lui," p. 182. Boileau said he had
not changed his opinion. "J'en ai si peu change, dit-il," etc., p. 181.

[580] _La Maniere de bien Penser dans les Ouvrages de l'esprit_, sec.
Dial., p. 89, edit. 1692. Philanthes is for Tasso, and says in the
outset, "De tous les beaux esprits que l'Italie a portez, le Tasse est
peut-estre celuy qui pense le plus noblement." But Bohours seems to
speak in Eudoxus, who closes with the absurd comparison: "Faites valoir
le Tasse tant qu'il vous plaira, je m'en tiens pour moy a Virgile," etc.
(_ibid_., p. 102).

[581] _La Vita, etc_., lib. iii. p. 90, tom. ii. The English reader may
see an account of the opposition of the Crusca to Tasso, in Black's
_Life_, 1810, _etc_., chap. xvii. vol. ii.

[582] For further, and it is hoped, decisive proof, that Tasso was
neither more nor less than a _prisoner of state_, the reader is referred
to _Historical Illustrations of the IVth Canto of Childe Harold_, p. 5,
and following.

[583] {486} Orazioni funebri ... delle lodi di Don Luigi Cardinal d'Este
... delle lodi di Donno Alfonso d'Este. See _La Vita_, lib. in. p. 117.

[584] It was founded in 1582, and the Cruscan answer to Pellegrino's
_Caraffa_, or _Epica poesia_, was published in 1584.

[585] "Cotanto, pote sempre in lui il veleno della sua pessima volonta
contro alia Nazion Fiorentina." _La Vita_, lib. iii. pp. 96, 98, tom.
ii.

[586] _La Vita di M. L. Ariosto_, scritta dall' Abate Girolamo
Baruffaldi Giuniore, etc. Ferrara, 1807, lib. in. p. 262. (See
_Historical Illustrations, etc._, p. 26.)

[587] _Storia della Lett._, Roma, 1785, tom. vii. pt. in. p. 130.

[588] {486} _Op_. di Bianconi, vol. iii. p. 176, ed. Milano, 1802:
Lettera al Signor Guido Savini Arcifisiocritico, sull' indole di un
fulmine caduto in D