. Men and manners of old Florence. teplays cruel tricks ! Tullia, meanwhile, fearless andunconscious, replaced old loves with new ones; cold,impassive, and statuesque, she went upon her way,and neither in her eyes nor in her verses do we findthe trace of a single tear. As we have seen, she was in Rome in the year1531 ; early in 1535 she was in Adria, where hersister Penelope was born ; in 1537 she went toFerrara and thence to Venice, if Speroni is to bebelieved. After a stay in Siena, she went to Florencein the beginning of 1546, remaining there some twoand a half years, and after various othe
. Men and manners of old Florence. teplays cruel tricks ! Tullia, meanwhile, fearless andunconscious, replaced old loves with new ones; cold,impassive, and statuesque, she went upon her way,and neither in her eyes nor in her verses do we findthe trace of a single tear. As we have seen, she was in Rome in the year1531 ; early in 1535 she was in Adria, where hersister Penelope was born ; in 1537 she went toFerrara and thence to Venice, if Speroni is to bebelieved. After a stay in Siena, she went to Florencein the beginning of 1546, remaining there some twoand a half years, and after various other wanderingsshe died in Rome in»March, 1556. The poet Muzio,in his eclogue Argia, describes the adventures ofPenelope, who, with her mother, always followedthe fortunes of Tullia, and gives us in verse theitinerary of these three wandering women. And sinceit has been proved that his poetical information agreeswith that of more matter-of-fact documents, we maygo back a few years and take up the thread of thestory again at Ferrara,. Pholo] VITIORIA OLONNA, BY IIUZIAXO. [AUnari.[To face page i6(l- ? Ill SOME time before June, 1537, TuUia arrived inFerrara, to which town, in the April of thissame year, had come Vittoria Colonna, in all proba-bility for the purpose of restoring peace to the soulof Renata dEste and reconciling her with the this Lent the Siennese preacher, BernardinoOchino, had been profoundly moving all Ferrara withhis inspired words, spoken from the pulpit with marvellous fervour and a perfect voice, andthe Marchioness of Pescara, who was a staunch sup-porter of the Capucin friar, had found another reasonfor her journey to Ferrara in helping him to establisha house for his Order in that place. TuUia, who viedwith the Duchess for the admiration of the Ferrarese,strewed cinders on her head, as was the duty ofevery honest sinner, and did not fail to show herselfto the eyes of the citizens dressed in penitents garband mingling with the throng who hung on th
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