Lord Byron as a satirist in verse

by Claude Moore Fuess

[255] Morgante Maggiore, XXVIII., 138–9.

[256] Don Juan, XV., 19.

[257] Ibid., V., 159.

[258] Other examples occur in the Morgante Maggiore, I., 4; II., 1; XIV., 1; XVI., 1; XXI., 1; XXIV., 1; XXVIII., 1.

[259] Don Juan, X., 4.

[260] Morgante Maggiore, I., 8.

[261] Morgante Maggiore, XXV., 283.

[262] Ibid., XXVIII., 35.

[263] Don Juan, XV., 20.

[264] It is significant that Byron was able to make his translation of the first canto of the Morgante so faithful to the original. On September 28, 1820, he wrote Murray:—“The Pulci I am proud of; it is superb; you have no such translation. It is the best thing I ever did in my life” (Letters, i., 83). It is obvious that there were features in Pulci’s style which appealed to Byron.