[170] Ferrara was handed back to the Papal States in 1814, but the Austrians retained the right to keep a garrison there.—T.
[171] Bernardo Tasso (1493-1569), Torquato Tasso's father, author of the Amadigi di Francia (Amadis of Gaul, 1560) and a quantity of other poems, died at Ostiglia on the 14th of September 1569.—T.
[172] Rinaldo was published in 1562, while Tasso was a youth of eighteen studying law at Padua.—T.
[173] Produced at Ferrara in 1573.—T.
[174] Ippolito of Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, Archbishop of Milan, Lyons and Narbonne (1509-1572), uncle of Alphonsus II. and a favourite of the Court of France of that time.—T.
[175] 24 August 1572.—T.
[176] Anna Swanwick's Goethe: Torquato Tasso, Act I. Sc. i.—T.
[177] Ibid., Act II. Sc. i.—T.
[178] Ibid., Act III. Sc. iii.—T.
[179] Anna Swanwick's Goethe: Torquato Tasso, Act V. Sc. iv.—T.