[160] Pietro Cardinal Bembo (1470-1547), born in Venice, created a cardinal in 1539 and Keeper of the Library of St. Mark. He was the author of poems, letters, a History of Venice in Latin, and the Asolani, a series of dialogues on the nature of love.—T.
[161] Daniello Bartoli (1608-1685), born at Ferrara, Rector of the College of Jesuits in Rome, and author of an important Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù (1653-1675) and various physical treatises.—T.
[162] Matteo Maria Bojardo, Conte di Scandiano (circa 1434-1494), born at Reggio di Modena, author of Orlando Innamorato (1495), of which Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is the continuation.—T.
[163] Ippolyto Pindemonte (1753-1828), the poet, and Giovanni Pindemonte (1751-1812), his brother, the dramatist, were both born at Verona.—T.
[164] Alfonso Marchese di Varano (1705-1788), the poet, was born at Ferrara.—T.
[165] Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828), born at Fusignano, near Ravenna, author of the Bassevilliana(1793), directed against the French Revolution, and a number of other poems, tragedies and translations. Monti was Historiographer to the Court of Italy under Napoleon and a member of the Italian Institute.—T.
[166] Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was a native of Sorrento, but his father, Bernardo Tasso, was a North Italian, having been born in Venice in 1493.—T.
[167] Melchiore Cesarotti (1730-1808), born at Padua, a poet and miscellaneous writer. His translation of Ossian (1763) is his finest work, but he is also known for his Saggio sulla Filosofia delle Lingue (1785) and a number of prose and metrical translations besides that mentioned.—T.
[168] Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), known as Guercino, or the Squintling, from an accident which distorted his right eye in babyhood: a well-known painter of the Eclectic-Bologna School.—T.
[169] Ferrara Cathedral was consecrated in 1136; the interior was spoilt in the seventeenth century.—T.