Only the one is written in a Mixo-Lydian, the other in a Hyper-Phrygian mood.

[197] There is a streamlet called Reno near Bologna.

[198] See Scherillo's two books on the Commedia dell'Arte and the Opera Buffa.

[199] For the date 1615 see Carducci's learned essay prefixed to his edition of the Secchia Rapita (Barbera, 1861).

[200] Canto i. 2.

[201] Canto xii. 77.

[202] So Heine wrote of Aristophanes. See my essay in Studies of the Greek Poets.

[203] Canto viii. 33, 34.

[204] See Baini, Life of Palestrina, vol. ii. p. 20.

[205] While the choir was singing, the orchestra was playing concerted pieces called ricercari, in which the vocal parts were reproduced.