[149] Vat. Urb. MSS., No. 906.
[150] Oliveriana MSS. In 1602 the Duke instructed his resident at Venice to procure for Gian Battista Leoni access to its archives for the life of Francesco Maria I. he had commissioned him to write, which was published three years later.
[*151] On Muzio, see Giaxich, Vita di Girolamo Muzio (Trieste, 1847); Morpurgo, Girolamo Muzio (Trieste, 1893), Nomi, in Miscellanea Stor. della Valdelsa, No. 24; Nottola, Appunti sul Muzio poeta (Aosta, 1895).
[*152] The fullest collection of his letters seems to be that of Gioliti, 1551. Cf. also Zenatti, Lettere inedite (Capodistria, 1896).
[153] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 1011, and No. 1023, f. 50.
[154] British and Foreign Quarterly Review, xi. 376.
[155] See above, [Vol. II., cap. xxv.]
[*156] How could Italy have a ballad poetry full of national sentiment before she became a nation? Her living poetry then and for centuries before, as now, is the Rispetto. Cf., for the Poesie Popolari generally, D'Ancona, La Poesia Popolare Italiana (Livorno, 1906); for the Marche especially Gianandrea, Canti Popolari Marchigiani (Torino, Loescher, 1875).
[*157] I shall not attempt to give a bibliography, however scanty, of Ariosto. He has really nothing to do with Urbino, and the work done concerning him would fill a library. The best life after those of Baretti, Campori, and Baruffaldi is that of Cappelli prefacing the Lettere (Hoepli, Milano, 1887). The best edition of his poems is that of Papini (Firenze, Sansoni, 1903). For Bibliographia Ariostesca, see Ferrazzi (Bassano, Pozzato, 1881). For the controversy, Ariosto-Tasso, see Vivaldi, La Più Grande polemica del Cinquecento (Catanzaro, Caliò, 1895). Consult also Edmund Gardner, Dukes and Poets at Ferrara (Constable, 1904), a charming and a learned book.
[*158] Ariosto has told us in great part his own life in his Satire; best edition that of Tambara (Livorno, 1903).