[21] Ib. vol. iii. pp. 85, 86, 88, 163, iv. pp. 8, 166, v. p. 87.
[22] Letter to Fabio Gonzaga in 1590 (vol. iv. p. 296).
[23] Lettere, vol. iii. p. viii.
[24] Lettere, vol. iii. p. xxx. note 34.
[25] Guarino, in a sonnet, hinted at the second supposition. See Rosini's Saggio sugli Amori, &c. vol. xxxiii. of his edition of Tasso, p. 51.
[26] Lettere, vol. iii. p. xxxi.
[27] Lettere, vol. i. p. 139.
[28] Lettere, vol. i. p. 228.
[29] This is Rosini's hypothesis in the Essay cited above. The whole of his elaborate and ingenious theory rests upon the supposition that Alfonso at Belriguardo extorted from Tasso an acknowledgment of his liaison Leonora, and spared his life on the condition of his playing a fool's part before the world. But we have no evidence whatever adequate to support the supposition.
[30] Lettere, vol. i. 257-262.