[606] See Satire v. 172-204.
[607] This is one of the pretty stories on which some doubt has lately been cast. See Campori, pp. 105-110, for a full discussion of its probable truth.
[608] "Small, but suited to my needs, freehold, not mean, the fruit of my own earnings." His son Virginio substituted another inscription which may still be seen upon the little house-front: Sic domus hæc Areostea propitios habeat deos olim ut Pindarica—"May this house of Ariosto have gods propitious as of old the house of Pindar."
[609] The date is uncertain. It was not before 1522, perhaps even so late as 1527.
[610] xv. 28; xxxiii. 24.
[611] See Panizzi, op. cit. vol. vi. p. cxix. for a description of these verbal changes.
[612] See especially Satire ii. 28-51, and Capitolo i.
[613] "Ludovici Areosti humantur ossa," etc., Op. Min. i. 365.
[614] See the Opere Minori, vol. i. p. 336. Also Carducci's eloquent defense of these Horatian verses in his essay, Delle Poesie Latine di L. Ariosto (Bologna, Zanichelli, 1876), p. 82. The latter treatise is a learned criticism of Ariosto's Latin poetry from a point of view somewhat too indulgent to Ariosto as a poet and a man. Carducci, for example, calls the four Alcaic stanzas in question "una cosellina quasi perfetta," though they contain three third lines like these:
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Furore militis tremendo.... Jacentem aquæ ad murmur cadentis.... Mecumque cespite hoc recumbens. |