Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) / The Catholic Reaction

by John Addington Symonds

[1] This is doubtful. Serrassi believed that Bernardo's mother was also a Tasso.

[2] He speaks in his letters of the difficulty 'di sottrarre il collo all difficile noioso arduo giogo della servitù dei Principi.' Lettere Ined. Bologna, Romagnoli, p. 34.

[3] Lett. Ined. p. 100

[4] Letter di Torquato Tasso, February 15, 1556, vol. II. p. 157.

[5] 'Sentendo in me non so qual nuova insolita contentezza,' 'non so qual segreta divozione.' Lettere, vol. ii. p. 90.

[6] Bernardo's Letter to Cav. Giangiacopo Tasso, December 6, 1554.

[7] Dated February 13, 1556.

[8] See Opere, vol. iv. p. 100, for Tasso's description of the farewell to his mother, which he remembered deeply, even in later life.

[9] Lettere, vol. i. p. 6.

[10] Cardinal Ferdinando de'Medici succeeded in a like position to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. But Luigi d'Este did not survive his brother.