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A wider range of metrical effect, including not only terzines both sdrucciole and piane, but also hendecasyllables with internal rime and a canzone, and at the same time a more dramatic treatment, is found in another eclogue of Aquilano's . In this Palemone sends his herdsman Silvano to inspect his flocks after a stormy night.
They introduce a number of dialects, suited to various personages; Arcadian shepherds like Lucido, Silvano, and the rest; rustics with names such as Grítolo di Burano, mythological figures, and a satiro villan who speaks Dalmatian.
This secretary, Eugene Silvano by name, was a quiet self-contained young man, highly ambitious, and keenly interested in the political situation, and, though in the Premier's service, not altogether of his way of thinking. He called the Marquis's attention now to a letter that had missed careful reading on the previous day.
"I can do nothing;" said the Marquis irritably, "the lands they want belong to the Crown. The King can dispose of them as he thinks best." The secretary set the letter aside. "Shall I reply to that effect?" he enquired. The Marquis nodded. "I know," said Silvano presently with a slight hesitation, "that you never pay any attention to anonymous communications.
The prologue relates how the first archimandrita of the academy, the title assumed by the president, here called Silvano, was driven out by his followers because of certain innovations he made, 'Alzando i Rozzi e deprimendo i buoni. This would seem to imply that the head of the Addiacciati was expelled for evincing too particular an interest in the Sienese society, a piece of literary gossip fairly borne out by the little we know of the events which led up to Firenzuola's departure from Prato.
I sent it some days ago, and got an acknowledgment from the flunkey who writes Majesty's letters. But this afternoon I received a much more important document, a letter from Eugene Silvano, secretary to our very honourable and trustworthy Premier!
"Oracular!" said the Marquis carelessly; "To decide is one thing to fulfil the decision is another! Lotys, whoever she may be, can preach to her heart's content, for all I care! I am rather surprised, Silvano, that a man of your penetration and intelligence should attach any importance to revolutionary meetings, which are always going on more or less in every city under the sun.
The prologue, indeed, speaks of Silvano as already dead, which would appear to necessitate the placing of Firenzuola's death earlier by three years than the accepted date. The inference, however, is not necessary, since the expelled president might in his pastoral character be represented as dead though still alive in the flesh.
"Have you taken statistics of the lady's followers," he asked; "Are you one of them yourself?" Silvano raised his eyes, clear dark eyes, deep-set and steady in their glance. "Were I so, I should not be here;" he replied "But I know how she speaks; I know what she does! and from a purely political point of view I think it unwise to ignore her."
The herdsman meets Ircano in a melancholy mood, who when questioned endeavours to hide the nature of his grief by feigning that he has lost his flock in the storm. At that moment, however, the real cause of his sorrow enters in the shape of a nymph, and Ircano leaves Silvano in order to follow her with prayers and supplications.
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