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There was no originality in him, for there was no experience; it was exquisite mechanism, his verse, nothing more. It might well deceive him, for it could not but flatter his ear and Tasso's silver march rang not more musically than did the chiming stanzas of Castruccio Cesarini. The perusal of this poetry, and his conversation with the poet, threw Maltravers into a fit of deep musing.
We of this age may miss in Tasso's poetical works the dramatic force to which we are accustomed in such productions; but we acknowledge the spell which the lyrical element that pervades them all, and towards which Tasso's genius was most strongly bent, casts over us. His own personal history strikingly illustrates the vanity of a life spent in dependence upon princes.
ARIOSTO'S house, TASSO'S prison, a rare old Gothic cathedral, and more churches of course, are the sights of Ferrara. But the long silent streets, and the dismantled palaces, where ivy waves in lieu of banners, and where rank weeds are slowly creeping up the long- untrodden stairs, are the best sights of all.
It is one to one." But a second glance told him who this solitary pursuer was. "The devil!" he laughed as one of Tasso's heroes might have laughed! "The devil! how that man loves me!" He was confident that the white horse would never overtake the black. On they flew, pursued and pursuer. At length Maurice bit his lip and frowned.
One of the ladies of the court impugned with success his twenty-first conclusion "that man loves more intensely and with more stability than woman;" but whether this success was the result of the goodness of her cause, and not rather of her own ability or of Tasso's gallantry, may be left an open question.
And yet it is difficult to agree with Professor Rosini, who has ably treated the whole question in a work entitled Amore de Tasso, and has come to the conclusion, after carefully weighing all the evidence, that this was the rock upon which Tasso's life made shipwreck. On this theory several circumstances are altogether inexplicable. We may dismiss at once the famous kiss as certainly a myth.
A Discourse of Witchcraft As it was acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax of Fuystone in the County of York, in the year 1621. V of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Soc. The editor says the original MS. is still in existence. Edward Fairfax was a natural brother of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton. He translated into English verse Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, and accomplished other poetic feats.
"That is the house, at least so they say, of Tasso's father; of course you visited that?" "Yes, it was a hotel in my time; I lodged there." "And I too. There I first read 'The Gerusalemine." The last words were said in Italian, with a low measured tone, inwardly and dreamily.
This translation, 'somewhat altered' to serve as a sequel to an English hexametrical version of Tasso's Aminta, was republished in 'The Countesse of Pembrokes Ivychurch' of 1591. Again in 1592 Watson produced another work entitled Amintae Gaudia, part of which was translated under the title An Old-fashioned Love, and published as by I. T. in 1594.
Two objects specially invited my attention in Ferrara: the one was the prison of Tasso, the other the palace of Renée, the Duchess of Ferrara. Tasso's prison is a mere vault in the courtyard of the hospital of St Anna, built up at one end with a brick wall, and closed at the other by a low and strong door.
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