FOOTNOTES:
——Non ebbe unqua pastore
Di me più lieto, o più felice amore!
See the canzone to Ginevra, quoted by Baruffaldi. Vita, p. 148.
[76] Monti. Poesie varie, p. 88.
[77] Translated by a friend.
[78] Sonnet 27.
[79] Stewart Rose's translation.
[80] The 26th, 27th, and 28th.
[81] Lycurgus, King of Thrace.
[82] Ariosto. Rime.
[83] The proofs may be consulted in Baruffaldi, "Vita di M. Ludovico Ariosto," published in 1807; and also in Frizzi, "Memorie della Famiglia Ariosto."
[84] Baruffaldi gives some family reasons, but they are far from being satisfactory.—See Vita, in p. 159.
[85] Ruscelli, Fabroni, Baruffaldi, and the late poet Monti, are all agreed on this point.
[86] Orlando Furioso, c. 42, st. 93.