[733] L’Italia liberata da Goti, Rome, 1547.
[734] See above, p. 319, and Landau’s Boccaccio, 64-69. It must, nevertheless, be observed that the work of Boccaccio here mentioned was written before 1344, while that of Petrarch was written after Laura’s death, that is, after 1348.
[735] Vasari, viii. 71, in the Commentary to the Vita di Rafaelle.
[736] Much of this kind our present taste could dispense with in the Iliad.
[737] First edition, 1516.
[738] The speeches inserted are themselves narratives.
[739] As was the case with Pulci, Morgante, canto xix. str. 20 sqq.
[740] The Orlandino, first edition, 1526.
[741] Radevicus, De gestis Friderici imp., especially ii. 76. The admirable Vita Henrici IV. contains very little personal description, as is also the case with the Vita Chuonradi imp. by Wipo.
[742] The librarian Anastasius (middle of ninth century) is here meant. The whole collection of the lives of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis) was formerly ascribed to him, but erroneously. Comp. Wattenbach, Deutschland’s Geschichtsquellen, i. 223 sqq. 3rd ed.