[11] See Lettere, vol. ii. p. 80: to Giacomo Buoncompagno.
[12] 'Egli mi disse, allor che suo mi fece: Tu canta, or che se' 'n ozio.'
[13] This is how he wrote in his Diary about Lucrezia. 'Finally the Duke decided upon his marriage with Donna Lucrezia d'Este, which took place, though little to his taste, for she was old enough to have been his mother.' 'The Duchess wished to return to Ferrara, where she subsequently chose to remain, a resolution which gave no annoyance to her husband; for, as she was unlikely to bring him a family, her absence mattered little.' 'February 15, 1598. Heard that Madame Lucrezia d'Este, Duchess of Urbino, my wife, died at Ferrara during the night of the 11th.' (Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino, vol. iii. pp. 127, 146, 156.) Francesco Maria had been attached in Spain to a lady of unsuitable condition, and his marriage with Lucrezia was arranged to keep him out of a mésalliance.
[14] Lettere, vol. i, p. 47. The sonnet begins, 'Sdegno, debil guerrier.'
[15] Tasso consulted almost every scholar he could press into his service. But the official tribunal of correction was limited to the above named four acting in concert with Scipione Gonzaga.
[16] Lettere, vol. i. p. 114.
[17] Ib. vol. i. p. 192.
[18] Vol. i. pp. 55-215.
[19] Lettere, vol. iii. p. 41, iv. p. 332.
[20] Lettere, vol. iii. p. 164, v. p. 6.