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[589] "Appa.s.sionato ammiratore ed invitto apologista dell' _Omero Ferrarese_." The t.i.tle was first given by Ta.s.so, and is quoted to the confusion of the _Ta.s.sisti_, lib. iii. pp. 262, 265. _La Vita di M. L.

Ariosto, etc_.

[590]

"Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus."

[591] {488} Plin., _Hist. Nat_., lib. ii. cap. 55.

[592] _Columella_, De Re Rustica, x. 532, lib. x.; Sueton., in _Vit.

August_., cap. xc., et in _Vit. Tiberii_, cap. lxix.

[593] Note 2, p. 409, edit. Lugd. Bat. 1667.

[594] _Vid_. J. C. Boulenger, _De Terrae Motu et Fulminib_., lib. v. cap.

xi., _apud_ J. G. Graev., _Thes. Antiq. Rom_., 1696, v. 532.

[595] ??de?? ?e?a????e?? ?t??? ?st?, ??e? ?a? ?? ?e?? t??ta? [Ou)deis keraunotheis a)/timo/s e)sti, o(/then kai o(s theos tima~tai].

Artemidori _Oneirocritica_, Paris, 1603, ii. 8, p. 91.

[596] {489} Pauli Warnefridi Diaconi _De Gestis Langobard_., lib. iii.

cap. x.x.xi., _apud_ La Bigne, _Max. Bibl. Patr_., 1677, xiii. 177.

[597] I. P. Valeriani _De fulminum significationibus declamatio_, _apud_ J. G. Graev., _Thes. Antiq. Rom_., 1696, v. 604. The declamation is addressed to Julian of Medicis.

[598] {490} See _Menum. Ant. Ined_., 1767, ii. par. i. cap. xvii. sect.

iii p. 50; and _Storia delle Arti, etc_., lib. xi. cap. i. tom ii. p.

314, note B.

[599] _Nomina gentesque Antiquae Italiae_ (Gibbon, _Miscell. Works_, 1814). p. 204, edit. oct.

[600] {492} The free expression of their honest sentiments survived their liberties. t.i.tius, the friend of Antony, presented them with games in the theatre of Pompey. They did not suffer the brilliancy of the spectacle to efface from their memory that the man who furnished them with the entertainment had murdered the son of Pompey: they drove him from the theatre with curses. The moral sense of a populace, spontaneously expressed, is never wrong. Even the soldiers of the triumvirs joined in the execration of the citizens, by shouting round the chariots of Lepidus and Plancus, who had proscribed their brothers, _De Germanis, non de Gallis, duo triumphant consules_; a saying worth a record, were it nothing but a good pun. [C. Vell. Paterculi, _Hist_., lib. ii. cap. lxxix. p. 78, edit. Elzevir, 1639. _Ibid_., lib. ii. cap.

lxvii.]

[601] {494} _Il Principe di Niccol Machiavelli_, Paris, 1825, pp. 184, 185.

[602] _Storia della Lett. Ital._, edit. Venice, 1795, tom. v. lib. iii.

par. 2, p. 448, note. Tiraboschi is incorrect; the dates of the three decrees against Dante are A.D. 1302, 1314, and 1316.

[603] {495} So relates Ficino, but some think his coronation only an allegory. See _Storia, etc., ut sup._, p. 453.

[604] By Varchi, in his _Ercolano_. The controversy continued from 1570 to 1616. See _Storia, etc._, edit. Rome, 1785, tom, vii. lib. iii. par.

iii. p. 187.

[605] {496} Gio Jacopo Dionisi _Canonico di Verona_. Serie di Aneddoti, n. 2. See _Storia, etc._, edit. Venice, 1795, tom. v. lib. i. par. i. p.

24, note.

[606] "Vitam Literni egit sine desiderio urbis." See T. Liv., _Hist._, lib. x.x.xviii. cap. liii. Livy reports that some said he was buried at Liternum, others at Rome. _Ibid._, cap. lv.

[607] _Trionfo della Cast.i.ta_, _Opera_ Petrarchae, Basil, 1554, i. _s.f._

[608] {497} See Note 6, p. 476.

[609] The Greek boasted that he was ?s????? [i)so/nomos].

See the last chapter of the first book of Dionysius of Halicarna.s.sus.

[610] {498} "E intorno _alla magnifica risposta_," etc. Sera.s.si, _Vita del Ta.s.so_, lib. iii. p. 149, tom. ii. edit. 2. Bergamo.

[611] {499} "Accingiti innoltre, se ci e lecito ancor l'esortarti, a compire l'immortal tua Africa ... Se ti avviene d'incontrare nel nostro stile cosa che ti dispiaccia, ci debb' essere un altro motive ad esaudire i desiderj della tua patria." _Storia della Lett. Ital._, edit.

Venice, 1795, tom. v. par. i. lib. i. p. 75.

[612] {500} _Cla.s.sical Tour_, chap. ix. vol. iii. p. 355, edit. 3rd. "Of Boccaccio, the modern Petronius, we say nothing; the abuse of genius is more odious and more contemptible than its absence, and it imports little where the impure remains of a licentious author are consigned to their kindred dust. For the same reason the traveller may pa.s.s unnoticed the tomb of the malignant _Aretino_." This dubious phrase is hardly enough to save the tourist from the suspicion of another blunder respecting the burial-place of Aretine, whose tomb was in the church of St. Luke at Venice, and gave rise to the famous controversy of which some notice is taken in Bayle. Now the words of Mr. Eustace would lead us to think the tomb was at Florence, or at least was to be somewhere recognised. Whether the inscription so much disputed was ever written on the tomb cannot now be decided, for all memorial of this author has disappeared from the church of St. Luke.

[613] {501} "Non enim ubique est, qui in excusationem meam consurgens dicat: juvenis scripsit, & majoris coactus imperio." The letter was addressed to Maghinard of Cavalcanti, marshal of the kingdom of Sicily.

See Tiraboschi, _Storia, etc._, edit. Venice, 1795, tom. v. par. ii.

lib. iii. p. 525, note.

[614] {502} _Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane_, Diss. lviii. p.

253, tom. iii. edit. Milan, 1751.

[615] _Eclairciss.e.m.e.nt, etc., etc._, p. 648, edit. Amsterdam, 1740, in the Supplement to Bayle's _Dictionary_.

[616] {503} _Opera_, i. 540, edit. Basil, 1581.

[617] Cosmus Medices, Decreto Publico, Pater Patriae.

[618] Corinne, 1819, liv. xviii. chap. iii. vol. iii. p. 218.

[619] {504} _Discourses concerning Government_, by A. Sidney, chap. ii.

sect. xxvi. p. 208, edit. 1751. Sidney is, together with Locke and Hoadley, one of Mr. Hume's "despicable" writers.

[620] {505} t.i.t. Liv., lib. xxii. cap. v.

[621] _Ibid._, cap. iv.

[622] _Ibid._

[623] {506} _Hist._, lib. iii. cap. 83. The account in Polybius is not so easily reconcilable with present appearances as that in Livy; he talks of hills to the right and left of the pa.s.s and valley; but when Flaminius entered he had the lake at the right of both.

[624] {507} About the middle of the twelfth century the coins of Mantua bore on one side the image and figure of Virgil. _Zecca d'Italia_, iii.

pl. xvii. i. 6. _Voyage dans le Milanais, etc._, par A. L. Millin, ii.

294. Paris, 1817.

[625] {509} _Storia delle Arti, etc._, lib. xi. cap. i. pp. 321, 322, tom. ii.

[626] Cicer., _Epist. ad Attic.u.m_, xi. 6.

[627] Published by Causeus, in his _Museum Romanum_.