aleardo

Updated: May 16, 2025

He could not altogether shake off the fear that he was still in Alfonso's power, and wherever he went he fancied that an officer was in pursuit of him to drag him back to the foul prison in St. Anne's. A modern Italian poet, Aleardo Aleardi, has graphically described the feelings of the gentle poet-knight, roaming, pale and dishevelled, as a mendicant from door to door.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood