[203] Cf. B. Tasso, ii. 515; Robortelli, p. 2; etc.
[204] Don Quix. iv. 21.
[205] Hamlet, iii. 2.
[206] Scaliger, Poet. i. 2. Castiglione, in the second book of the Cortigiano, says that the comic writer, more than any other, expresses the true image of human life.
[207] Poet. i. 5.
[208] Poet. iii. 96.
[209] Symonds, Ren. in Italy, v. 124 sq., 533 sq.