With Byron in Itlay; a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron relating to his life in ItalyEdited by Anna Benneson McMahan . I wish also to see the Fall of think to return to Venice by Ravenna and Rimini, ofboth of which I mean to take notes for Leigh Hunt, whowill be glad to hear of the scenery of his Therewas a devil of a review of him in the Quarterly a yearago, which he answered. All answers are imprudent: but,to be sure, poetical flesh and blood must have the lastword — thats certain. I thought, and think, very highlyof his Poem; but I warned him of the row his fa
With Byron in Itlay; a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron relating to his life in ItalyEdited by Anna Benneson McMahan . I wish also to see the Fall of think to return to Venice by Ravenna and Rimini, ofboth of which I mean to take notes for Leigh Hunt, whowill be glad to hear of the scenery of his Therewas a devil of a review of him in the Quarterly a yearago, which he answered. All answers are imprudent: but,to be sure, poetical flesh and blood must have the lastword — thats certain. I thought, and think, very highlyof his Poem; but I warned him of the row his favouriteantique phraseology would bring him into. THE LAMENT OF TASSO At Ferrara in the Library, are preserved the originalMSS. of Tassos Gerusalemme and of Guarinis PastorFido, with letters of Tasso, one from Titian to Ariosto; 1 Tasso [1544-1595] was imprisoned by Alfonso II. as a lunatic in theHospital of Sant Anna at Ferrara, from March, 1579, to July, 1586. 2 Compare Childe Harold, IV, stanza The Story of Rimini. [ 18 ] JPOMB of Torquato Tasso, in Convent of S. Onofrio,Rome. Statue by De Fabris. rORQVATO TASSO O pf. Peace to Torqnatos injured shade . V was hisIn life and death to he the mark where WrongAiind with her poison d arrows, but to miss. — Childe Harold, Canto IV, stanza xxxix, p. C9 THE YEARS 1817, 1818, 1819 and the inkstand and chair, the tomb and the house ofthe latter. But, as misfortune has a greater interest forposterity, and little or none for the cotemporary, the cellwhere Tasso was confined in the hospital of St. Annaattracts a more fixed attention than the residence or themonument of Ariosto — at least it had this effect on are two inscriptions, one on the outer gate, thesecond over the cell itself, inviting, unnecessarily, the wonderand the indignation of the spectator. Ferrara is muchdecayed, and depopulated : the castle still exists entire;and I saw the court where Parisina and Hugo were be-headed, according to the annal of Gibbo
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