Satire IV.
[99]Apollo and the Muses are supposed to speak here, and Ariosto replies to them.
[100]The cardinal's steward.
"E fin ch'a Roma s'andò a far leone."
Satire IV.
"a crearlo
Leon d' umile agnel."
Satire VII.
[102]Annibale Maleguccio, to whom the Satire is addressed.
[103]A serpent, supposed to have horns; probably the hooded snake of the East Indies,—one of the most venomous and deadly of the kind: here it is the emblem of avarice.