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Conjectures and Researches Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso (Volume 2)

Conjectures and Researches Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso (Volume 2)

Wilde, Richard Henry

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ISBN10: 1151999733
ISBN13: 9781151999733
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...to receive him, there is reason to suspect he was not to return to his usual apartments in the palace, but to his former prison.f Rosini, with great plausibility, supposes he was conducted to Belriguardo, to be more conveniently and secretly interrogated, and refers to this period a sonnet of Tasso's to the shade of Duke Hercules, Alphoxso's father, which begins thus: Shade of great Hercules! dost thou not see The cruel aim of him that calls thee sire, Serassi, Vita, p. 246, n. 4. Lettere, vol. ix., p. 237, ed. di Venezia. Letter to the Lords and Deputies of the People of Naples, ante, p. 93. t Serassi, Vita, p. 248. t Rosini, Cavedoniana, iii., p, 39, Who with unwonted arts would wring from me The words and acts that may increase his ire 1 From the pure milky way, above the gyre Of wandering stars, and far beyond the sun, Among the pitying angels send down one Who may their hearts with clemency inspire, etc. The Professor thinks the Princess herself may have participated in the harsh proceedings to which Tasso alludes.t This conjecture, though countenanced by the expression their hearts, is too revolting to be willingly indulged, and may be escaped from by supposing the allusion is to the Duke and Cardinal only. Yet it must be confessed there are other complaints Rime, torn. Hi., vol. v., p. 35, ed. di Pisa. SONNETTO 10X. Al Duca Ercole di Ferrara, che voglia dal cielo ispirar pieta ne'figli. Alme grande d' Alcide, io so che miri L' aspro rigor della Real tua prole, Che con insolite arti, atti e parole, Trar da me cerca, onde ver me s' adiri, Dal gran cerchio di latte, ove ti giri Sovra 1' erranti stelle, e sovra il sole, Un messagier di tua pieta sen vole, E spirto in lor d' umanitade inspiri, etc. t Rosini, ...

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