Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama / A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England

by W. W. Greg

379. See B. Croce, 'Napoli dal 1508 al 1512 (da un antico romanzo spagnuolo),' in Archivio storico per le provincie napolitane, anno xix, fasc. i, pp. 141 and 157. Carducci, 29¹.

380. Opera nova, Venetia, Rusconi, 1508. In the old edition the pieces are merely termed 'commedie,' the designation 'pastorali' being due to the 'Arcadian,' G. M. Crescimbeni, whose Istoria delia volgar poesia originally appeared in 1698. Carducci, 41¹.

381. See Carducci, p. 35. Stiefel, being only aware of the edition of 1543, hoped to find in the piece a link between Casalio and Beccari. Among several female characters introduced is one 'la quale volentieri starebbe in mezzo di due amanti o mariti: il che,' pursues Carducci, 'è del tutto opposto all' idealità delia favola pastorale.' One would have thought that certain traits in the characters of Dafne and Corisca would have occurred to him. Bitter satire on women was indeed one of the most permanent features of pastoral comedy, as it had been of the Latin eclogue.

382. See D'Ancona, 'II teatro mantovano nel secolo XVI,' in the Giornale storico, v. p. 19. Rossi, 170¹.

383. See G. Campori, Notizie sulla vita di L. Ariosto, Modena, 1871, p. 68. Rossi, 172¹. No mention of these is made by Carducci, his thesis being that the ecloga rappresentativa did not obtain at Ferrara, the home par excellence of the Arcadian drama. Thus, on p. 54 he writes: 'Delie parecchie ecloghe pastorali e rusticali passate in rassegna fin qui non una ce n' è o scritta o rappresentata o stampata in Ferrara, non una d'origine ferrarese. In Ferrara entriamo classicamente e signorilmente con l'Egle [1545].'

384. Rossi, 173¹. Carducci, 37.

385. See L. Frati, 'Un' ecloga msticale del 1508,' in the Giornale storico, xx(1892), p. 186. Carducci, 27².

386. See O. Guerrini, Narrazione di Paolo Palliolo, Bologna, Romagnoli, 1885, p. 96. Carducci, 31¹.

387. See C. Mazzi, La congrega dei Rozzi di Siena, i. p. 139 and ii. p. 100. Carducci, 31². Also Rossi, 174³; his suggestion of the possible identity of the two last-mentioned pieces has been shown by later research to be inadmissible.

388. A battle was fought at Tai, near Pieve di Cadore.