369. Apologia contro l'autor del Verato, Padova, Meietti, 1590.
370. Il Verato secondo, Firenze, Giunti, 1593, pp. 206-7; Carducci, 59-60.
371. I make no pretence at having myself examined all the texts mentioned in the following discussion. Many, indeed, are only to be found in out-of-the-way provincial libraries in Italy, and have, I believe, never been examined by any one but Carducci himself. The references in my notes equally testify my indebtedness to Rossi's monograph; indeed, my whole treatment of the subject is based on his work.
372. I shall endeavour to note the various verse-forms employed, as the evidence is often of use in determining the question of development. It may, however, be very easily misleading if unduly pressed, as by Carducci. In general, the terza rima may be taken as pointing to the influence of Sannazzaro's Arcadia; ottava rima, courtly or rustic, to that of Poliziano's Orfeo and Giostra and Lorenzo de' Medici's Nencia respectively; the endecasillabi sciolti, or blank verse, to that of the regular drama. Of the free measures, endecasillabi e settinarî, of the later plays I shall have to speak more in detail hereafter.
373. Edited from MS. by Felice Bariola, with other poems of Taccone's, Firenze, 1884, p. 14. Rossi, 1662; Carducci, 281.
374. Printed in the 'Opere dello elegante poeta Seraphino Aquilano,' Venetia, Bindoni, 1516, sig. D5. Rossi, 1671. For the date, Carducci, 292.
375. Of these authors little or nothing appears to be known. Both pieces have come down to us in MS.; see Adolfo Bartoli, Mss. italiani della Nazionale di Firenze, Firenze, 1884, ii. pp. 138 and 163. Concerning the first, see further, Poesie inedite di G. Del Carretto, by A. G. Spinelli, Savona, pp. 10-15; concerning the second, R. Renier, in the Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, 1885, v. p. 236, note 1. Rossi, 1672,3; Carducci, 302, 283.
376. Opere, 1516, as cited, sig. E. Rossi, 1674.
377. In Rime, ed. P. Fanfani, 1876-8, ii. p. 225. Rossi, 1681.
378. Rossi, 1692. Carducci, 263.