The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

by Jacob Burckhardt

[1285] In his late work Actius.

[1286] Cardanus, De Propria Vita, cap. 13: ‘Non pœnitere ullius rei quam voluntarie effecerim, etiam quæ male cessisset;’ else I should be of all men the most miserable.

[1287] Discorsi, ii. cap. 2.

[1288] Del Governo della Famiglia, p. 114.

[1289] Comp. the short ode of M. Antonio Flaminio in the Coryciana (see p. 269):

Dii quibus tam Corycius venusta
Signa, tam dives posuit sacellum,
Ulla si vestros animos piorum
Gratia tangit,

Vos jocos risusque senis faceti
Sospites servate diu; senectam
Vos date et semper viridem et Falerno
Usque madentem.

At simul longo satiatus ævo
Liquerit terras, dapibus Deorum
Lætus intersit, potiore mutans
Nectare Bacchum.

[1290] Firenzuola, Opere, iv. p. 147 sqq.

[1291] Nic. Valori, Vita di Lorenzo, passim. For the advice to his son Cardinal Giovanni, see Fabroni, Laurentius, adnot. 178, and the appendices to Roscoe’s Leo X.