[622] The third elegy is a beautiful lamentation over his separation from his mistress. Written to ease his heart in solitude, it is more impassioned and less guarded than the epistle.
[623] It may be interesting to compare this scarcely disguised satire with the official flatteries of Canzone ii. and Elegies i., xiv., where Ariosto praises the Medici, and especially Lorenzo, as the saviours of Florence, the honor of Italy.
[624] 22-69.
[625] As when, for instance, he calls the sun in the first Canzone, "l'omicida lucido d'Achille." Several of the sonnets are artificial in their tropes.
[626] De Sanctis, ii.
[627] See especially the lines entitled De suâ ipsius mobilitate.
[628] See Sonnets xii. xi. xxvi. xxiii.
[629] See Ermolao Rubieri, Storia della Poesia Popolare Italiana, p. 45.
[630] Carducci, Intorno ad Alcune Rime, p. 107.
[631] Opere Volgari di L.B. Alberti, vol. i. p. ccxxv.