(Vol. ii., p. 146.; Vol. viii., p. 237.)
When I gave some account of La Tina of Antonio Malatesti, and its dedication to Milton, two years since, I was not aware that it had been printed, as I had no other edition of Gamba's Serie dell' Edizioni de' Testi di Lingua, than the first printed in 1812. That account was derived from the original MS. which formerly passed through my hands. I fear that my friend Mr. Bolton Corney will be disappointed if he should meet with a copy of the printed book, for the MS. contained no other dedication than the inscription on the title-page, of which I made a tracing. It represents an inscribed stone tablet, in the following arrangement:
"LA
Tina Equiuoci Rusticali
di Antonio Malatesti cō-
posti nella sua Villa di
Taiano il Settembre dell'
L'Anno, 1637.
Sonetti Ciquanta
Dedicati all' Illmo Signore