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The duke replied to the cardinal January 22d, assuring him that his daughter-in-law would meet with a most affectionate reception. Spogli di Giambattista Almerici. i, 284. Ms. in the Oliveriana in Pesaro. Si per attendere a lavarse il capo, como anche per essere assai solitaria et remota di soa natura. Despatch from Rimini, January 22, 1502. Ferrante to Ercole, Rimini, January 23, 1502.
"Ho sempre amato la solitaria vita," Petrarch, referring to himself, declared, and Tiberius might have said the same thing. He was in love with solitude; ill with efforts for the unattained; sick with the ingratitude of man. Presently it was decided that he had lived long enough. He was suffocated beneath a mattress at that.
The streams, the plains and woods know well, he says, how he has tried to escape the perverse and stupid people who have missed the way to heaven: He pursues the same strain in that delightful book of his, DeVita Solitaria, which seems to have given Zimmerman the idea of his celebrated work on Solitude.
And at last, as an appropriate ending to such a storm, Domencio Thorner's Se solitaria preghi la sera that perfect echo of the heart's most importunate feeling, and its fluctuatons, when plangent passion sinks its voice like the sea, rocking itself to rest, and nearly finds forgetful calm; until suddenly the old pain revives the pain that cannot keep silence, the hunger of the heart, the everlasting sorrow and swells again in great and greater waves of melody.
"So che andar diritto mi bisogna, Ch' io non ci mescolassi una bugia, Che questa non è storia da menzogna; Che come in esco un passo de la via, Chi gracchia, chi riprende, e chi rampogna: Ognun poi mi riesce la pazzia; Tanto ch' eletto ho solitaria vita, Che la turba di questi è infinita.
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