Satira vi.
There is some appearance of contradiction in this passage and the one referred to in the preceding note; but I think the conclusion in the test the probable one, and that he was not compelled to study the law in the first instance. He speaks more than once of his father's memory with great tenderness, particularly in the lines on his death, entitled De Nicolao Areosto.]
[Footnote 4: His brother Gabriel expressly mentions it in his prologue to the Scholastica.]
[Footnote 5:
"Già mi fur dolci inviti," &c.
Satira v.]
[Footnote 6: See, in the present volume, the beginning of Astolfo's
Journey to the Moon.]
[Footnote 7:
"Me potius fugiat, nullis mollita querelis,
Dum simulet reliquos Lydia dura procos.
Parte carere omni malo, quam admittere quemquam
In partem. Cupiat Juppiter ipse, negem."
Ad Petrum Bembum.]