His meeting with Petrarch. Chaucer was in Italy in 1372-3, but his meeting with Petrarch is only a matter of conjecture. He probably did not meet Boccaccio, the author of the “Decameron.”
Ugolino. See p. [275].
portrait of Ariosto. Hazlitt probably refers to the Portrait of a Poet in the National Gallery, now ascribed to Palma.
[P. 321.] the mighty dead. Thomson’s “Winter,” 432.
creature of the element. Cf. “Comus,” 299:
“Of some gay creatures of the element,
That in the colors of the rainbow live,
And play i’ the plighted clouds.”
That was Arion. “Faërie Queene,” IV, ix, 23.
For Captain C., M. C., Miss D——, “Literary Remains” supplies Admiral Burney, Martin Burney, Miss Reynolds.
with lack-luster eye. “As You Like It,” ii, 7, 21.