veglie

Updated: May 26, 2025

To this period we may probably refer the "Veglie," or "Watches" of Tasso, the manuscript of which was discovered in the Ambrosian Library, at Milan, toward the end of the last century. They are written in prose, and express the author's melancholy thoughts in elegant and poetic language.

- Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 : A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History