[Footnote 2: See in his Latin poems the lines beginning, "Hæc me verbosas suasit perdiscere leges." _De Diversis Amoribus._]
"Mio padre mi cacciò con spiedi e lancie," &c.
There is some appearance of contradiction in this passage and the one referred to in the preceding note; but I think the conclusion in the test the probable one, and that he was not compelled to study the law in the first instance. He speaks more than once of his father's memory with great tenderness, particularly in the lines on his death, entitled _De Nicolao Areosto_.]
[Footnote 4: His brother Gabriel expressly mentions it in his prologue to the _Scholastica_.]
[Footnote 6: See, in the present volume, the beginning of _Astolfo's Journey to the Moon_.]
"Me potius fugiat, nullis mollita querelis, Dum simulet reliquos Lydia dura procos. Parte carere omni malo, quam admittere quemquam In partem. Cupiat Juppiter ipse, negem."
[Footnote 8: Panizzi, on the authority of Guicciardini and others. Giulio and another brother (Ferrante) afterwards conspired against Alfonso and Ippolito, and, on the failure of their enterprise, were sentenced to be imprisoned for life. Ferrante died in confinement at the expiration of thirty-four years; Giulio, at the end of fifty-three, was pardoned. He came out of prison on horseback, dressed according to the fashion of the time when he was arrested, and "greatly excited the curiosity of the people."--_Idem_, vol. i. p xii.]
"Che debbo fare io qui? Agli usatti, agli spron (perch'io son grande) Non mi posso adattar, per porne o trarne." _Satira_ ii.]
[Footnote 10: "Per la lettera de la S.V. Reverendiss. et a bocha da Ms. Ludovico Ariosto ho inteso quanta leticia ha conceputa del felice parto mio: il che mi è stato summamente grato, cussi lo ringrazio de la visitazione, et particolarmente di havermi mandato il dicto Ms. Ludovico, per che ultra che mi sia stato acetto, representando la persona de la S.V. Reverendiss. lui anche per conto suo mi ha addutta gran satisfazione, havendomi cum la narratione de l'opera the compone facto passar questi due giorni non solum senza fastidio, ma cum piacer grandissimo."--Tiraboschi, _Storia della Poesia Italiana_, Matthias' edition, vol. iii. p. 197.]