[308] See Bembo's elegy on Poliziano quoted by me in the Revival of Learning, p. 484.
[309] See Revival of Learning, p. 506, for the transference of scholarship to Lombardy.
[310] See the Latin hendecasyllables quoted by me in the Revival of Learning, p. 415, and the Defense of Italian in the treatise "Della volgare Lingua" (Bembo, Opere, Milan, Class. It. x. 28). Carducci in his essay Delle Poesie Latine di Ludovico Ariosto, pp. 179-181, gives some interesting notices of Ercole Strozzi's conversion to the vulgar tongue.
[311] See Revival of Learning, pp. 410-415, 481-485.
[312] Opere del Cardinale Bembo (Class. It. Milano, 1808, vol. x.).
[313] See his Latin treatise De Imitatione. It is in the form of an epistle.
[314] See Panizzi, Bioardo ed Ariosto, vi. lxxxi.
[315] Sonnet xxxvi. of his collected poems.
[316] My edition is in four volumes, Gualtero Scotto, Vinegia, MDLII. They are collected with copious additions in the Classici Italiani.
[317] It will be impossible to do more than make general reference to the vast masses of Italian letters printed in the sixteenth century. I must, therefore, content myself here with mentioning the collections of La Casa, Caro, Bernardo, and Torquato Tasso, Aretino, Guidiccioni, together with the miscellanies published under the titles of Lettre Scritte al Signor Pietro Aretino, the Lettere Diverse in three books (Aldus, 1567), and the Lettere di Tredici Uomini Illustri (Venetia, 1554).