Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) / Italian Literature, Part 1

by John Addington Symonds

[147] Ibid. p. 231.

[148] Ibid. p. 214 and note. The popularity of this dance-poem is further proved by a pious parody written to be sung to the same air with it: "O vaghe di Gesù, o verginelle." See Laudi Spirituali (Firenze, Molini, 1863), p. 105.

[149] Ibid. pp. 217, 218.

[150] See ibid. pp. 252-256, 259, 263.

[151] It is enough to mention Exit diluculo, Vere dulci mediante, Æstivali sub fervore.

[152] I must briefly refer to Carducci's Essay on "Musica e Poesia nel mondo elegante italiano del secolo xiv," in his Studi Letterari, Livorno, Vigo, 1874, and to my own translations from some of the there published Madrigals in [Sketches and Studies in Italy], pp. 214-216.

[153] Carducci, Cantilene, pp. 265-296.

[154] Op. cit. p. 298.

[155] Op. cit. p. 301.

[156] Op. cit. p. 300.