[*178] For the life of Torquato Tasso, see Solerti, in three volumes (Torino, 1895). The first contains the Vita; the second, Lettere inedite e disperse di T.T. e di diversi; the third, Documenti e appendici. See d'Ancona's review in Rass. Bibl. Lett. Ital., vol. IV., p. 7 et seq. The most complete modern edition of his works is Rosini's, in 33 vols., 8vo. (Pisa), and of the Rime, that of Solerti, in 3 vols. (Bologna, 1898-99).

[179] Byron's Lament of Tasso.

[*180] See on the Rinaldo, Proto, Sul Rinaldo di T.T. (Napoli, 1895).

[*181] Cf. d'Ovidio, Di una antica testimonianza circa la controversia della Crusca con Tasso (Napoli, 1894) and Vivaldi, La più grande polemica del Cinquecento (Catanzaro Caliò, 1895). Solerti reviewed this last in Giornale Stor. d. Lett. Ital., vol. XXVII., p. 426.

[*182] It was in September, 1576. Tasso had in July thought himself insulted by Ercole Fucci and his brother Maddalò; he boxed Ercole's ears. Then, in September, they met him and assaulted him. There was no duel. Only Solerti has found out the truth.

[*183] He was placed under restraint in S. Francesco, in Ferrara, in fact.

[*184] On the whole subject of Tasso's madness, see Corradi, Le Infermità di T.T. in Memorie dell'Istit. Lombardo (1880), vol. XIV.; Roncoroni, Genio e Pazzia in T.T. (Torino, 1896); and Gaudenzi, Studio Psicopatol. sopra T.T. (Vercelli, 1898); and Solerti, op. cit., supra.

[185] At p. [303] above.

[*186] On the Court of Ferrara, cf. Campori e Solerti, Luigi, Lucrezia e Leonora d'Este (Torino, 1888), and Solerti, Ferrara e la Corte estense nella secunda meta del sec. XVI. (Città di Castello, 1899).

[*187] Cf. d'Ovidio, Il carattere, gli amori e le sventure di T.T. in Studi Critici (Napoli, 1879); see also Campori e Solerti, op. cit., supra, p. 229, note *1.