Akenside, verses of, on Tasso's dependence, Alphor so, see Este.
Alamanni, unsuccessful as an epic poet, I. 87.
Alario, a persecutor of Tasso, II. 192, 214,
Albano Cardinal, I. 172, letter of Tasso to,
on the completion of his Jerusalem, 197,
letter to the Duke of Ferrara in behalf of
Tasso, II. 11. kind letter of, to the poet,
48, 55, on the death of Leonora of Este, 76.
Alceo a pastoral, I. 180.
Aidobrandino Card. Cynthio, exhorts Manso
to write the life of Tasso, Pref. xi. his
kindness to Tasso, II. 291, has the Jerus.
Conq. dedicated to him, 295; procures
Tasso the promise of a triumph, 317; his
last interview with the poet, 333.
Aldus the younger, prints the Aminta, I.
179; visits Tasso, II. 106; his account of
the admirable Crichton, 437; little de-
pendence to be placed on, 438, and seq.
Alembert D'. quoted, Pref. xviii. 99, 158;
his opinion of a compressed style, 218;
picture of envy, II. 120.
Alison Mr, I. 144.
Alle ory, in epic and romantic poems; re-
Amadigi, a romantic poem of B. Tasso, begun,
I. 65, 9, 10; its progress, 32, finished, 51,
altered, 53, revised by Sperone, 60; pub-
lication of, and cause of its want of suc-
cess, 62, and seq. numerous descriptions of
morning in 102, quoted 4.
Amadis, romance of, remark on its origin,
I. 64.
Amiata, allusions in to the festivals on Tasso's
arrival at Ferrara, I. 131; when perhaps
first conceived, 141; Tasso appears under
the name of Tirsi in 145, 177, 66, finish-
ed 176, not a favourite of its author, ib.
retailed examination of, and of the Pas-
or Fido, 360, and seq. style of admired by
Guarini, 372; remark concerning, II. 168.
Aastasio, quoted I. 14.
Antoniano Sylvio, a revisor of the Jerusalem;
account of, I. 242; his bigotted rigour,
247, 248, 261, 274, 280; apologetical let-
ter of Tasso to, 262, and seq. its little ef
fect, 269, and seq.
Aquinas St Thomas, II. 197, 198.
Archangelus, see Mercenarius.
Arcipanda, a tragedy, II. 307.
Arienti his Sfortunato, a pastoral drama, I. 141.
Ariosto, offence given by his catalogue of
friends, I. 4; gave grace to disorder, 50;
overshaded his successors, 67; idolatrous
admiration of, 88, 100; his verses on the
study of Law, 93; properly uses introduc-
tory verses, 102; his literary diligence, 210;,
why not patronised by Leo X. 230; taunt
of Cardinal Ippolito to, 348; emulation he
excited in Tasso, 303, II. 298, 324; argu-
ments to his poem offered by Tasso, 94;
comparison of his Orlando with the Jeru
salem, 131, and seq. beautiful verses of 141;
his fable concerning Pontifical patronage,
268; verse of, blamed, 326.
Horace compliments Tasso, I. 303;
writes arguments to the Jerusalem, II. 94;
wishes it not to be compared with the
Orlando, 152.
Aristotle, his poetics commended by Milton,
I. 185; his great influence, 203; his ob-
scurity, 211; conformity of the Jerusalem
to his rules, 373; improper to consider
such conformity as the sole test of excel-
lence, II. 491.
Armida, her fascinating beauty, I. 377, II.
363; this charm lost in the Jerus. Con.
484; her gardens, I. 175, 378.
Astolfo Felix, his account of Crichton's me-
mory, II. 433.
Augustine St, quoted, I. 402; a favourite of
Tasso, II. 197.
Bacon Lord, Pref. ii. I. 99, 403, II. 352.
Balzac, I. 163, 171.
Barbara of Austria, Duchess of Ferrara, her
first entrance into that city, I. 129; her
death, 175.
Barga Angelio da, a revisor of the Jerusalem,
account of, I. 200.
Bayle, I.212; his account of Dempster, II.431.
Beattie, his preference of the Jerusalem to
the Orlando, and mistake of, II. 131.
Beloe Mr, his notice of a note on a copy of
Virgil, II. 447.
Belriguardo, a palace of the Duke of Fer-
rara, I. 225.
Bendidio Lucretia, Tasso is enamoured of, I.
142, 145; she marries, 148.
Beni Paul, a commentator of the Jerusalem,
I. 49, 192, 202; remark on the changes
in the Jer. Con. II. 316; on Tasso's de-
scription of the Devil, 364.
Boccacio, his style not approved by Tasso, I.
Boccalini, his satire on Crichton, II. 414.
Boileau, II. 366.
Bolognetti, an Italian epic writer, I. 106.
Boyardo, I. 86, 137; beautiful prefaces of
Berni in the rifacciamento of his poem,
277, 333.
Brantome, quoted, I. 27, 162.
Brunswick house of, allied to that of Este, I.
121, 122, n.
Brusoni Jerome, novel of concerning Tasso,
II. 346.
Buchanan George, II. 415, 442.
Burney, his opinion of a passage in Tassoni
concerning James I. of Scotland, II. 314.
Burns, origin of his despondence, I. 43; his
mistaken idea of independence, 102; re-
marks concerning, 180, 339; his jealous Charnes Abbe de, a biographer of Tasso,
quoted, I. 165, II. 123.
Chartier Alain, quoted, I. 169.
Chaucer, his use of rythm royal, II. S05.
Chivalry, rise of, I. 74; education and initi-
ation of the knights, ib. their courtesy,
superstition, and propensity to love, 75,
and seq. its effects on poetry, 81, 328.
Cicero, his opinion of Aris otle's style, I. 212;
why he wrote in the form of dialogue, II.
52; his criterion of a sound mind, 179.
Claudian, first describes an infernal council,
II. 361.
Clement VIII. elected II. 279; verses of Tas-
so to, 280; his gracious reception of the
poet, 320; settles a pension on him, 323;
seizes Ferrara, 317.
Cleves, Princess de, hero of that novel, I. 132.
Coccapani, steward of the Duke of Ferrara,
I. 311, 313, 543; II. 66, 99.
Cats, sonnets of Tasso to, II. 63, 407.
Catullus, his beautiful picture of an infant, I. Collins, his beautiful verses on Tasso, II. 369.
Combat, the Judicial, I. 72.
Cavalletta Signora, disputes with Tasso, I. Commandine, teaches Tasso mathematics, I.
Cellini Benvenuto, his account of the Fer- Condorcet remarks of, on the biography of a
rarese, I. 543; his visions, II. 173.
Cercantes, quoted, I. 55; his opinion of Ama-
dis, 65.
Chamfort, quoted, I. 162, 183; remarks by,
on the influence of chivalry on poetry,
Chapelain, quoted,' II. 127.
Charles IX. his verses to Ronsard, I. 158;
receives Tasso graciously, 161; his cha-
racter and death, 163.
great man, Pref. xxv. on the subjuga-
tion of Greece by the Turks, 108; his
character of the Duchess of Guise, 132;
remark of on insanity, 322; on envy, II.
Constantino, a dear friend of Tasso, II. 162,
180, 216, 223, 252, 270; last letter of the
poet to, 329.
Cowper, remark of, on biography, Preface
xxvi, sources of his despondency, 44, 288,
on submitting a MS. to criticism, 207, on
Milton's style, 218; Homer's allegories,
400; his account of his convalescence, II.,
6; industry during his sickness, 16; com-
pares himself, like Tasso, to a shipwrecked
person, 244; happier than Tasso, 256;
translations by, 230, 358, 429, 466.
Creation, Tasso's poem on the, II., 300, and
seq.; published, 322; its style imitated by
Milton, 469, and seq.
Derangement mental, sometimes preceded
by violent love, I. 289; influence of the
weather on, 308; suspicions which pre-
cede and accompany it, 294, 301, 305,
310, 318; II. 34, treatment of 7, 8, modi-
fications of, 16, 174; its effect on the me-
mory, 54, 104; does not [in the form of
Melancholia,] impair the appetite, 113,
175, 187, 266.
Dialogue, remarks on the mode of writing
in, II. 50, and seq.
Crescimbeni, I., 86, 145, 360; II., 294.
Crichton, the admirable, dissertation on his
talents and murder, II., 413, and seq.
Crichton, Dr, physiological remarks of, I., Douglas, tragedy of, I. 373.
289; II, 173.
Dole, Ludovico, I. 32; writes a preface to
the Amudigi, 62.
Crusades, remarks on the, I., 107, and seq.;
their fitness for the embellishments of
poetry, 110.
Crusca, Academy of, its contest with Tasso,
II., 119, and seq.
Daniel translates a chorus of the Aminta, I.
302.
Dante a favourite of Tasso and Milton, I. 55,
56; his dislike of Ferrara, 123, 346; co-
incidence of his poem with the taste of
his age, 127; pretends to allegory, 401;
his Beatrice, II. 298; remark of Tasso
concerning, $25; general mistake with re-
gard to his sonnets, 373.
Davila, quoted, I. 352.
Dempster, Thomas, notices of, II. 433, and
seq.; his account of Crichton, ibid.
Denina, remark of, on the Italian prose
writers, II. 376.
Doyne, Mr, translates the Jerusalem, I. 337.
Drayton, remark of, on octave rhyme, II.
Drummond, of Hawthornden, I. Ss8; II.
373.
Dryden, remark of, on Virgil's style, I. 218:
on the Aminta, 371; the Jerusalem, I.
$69.
Dubartas, probable influence of his poem, on
Tasso and Milton, II. 286.
Dunster, Mr, II. 287.
Ellis, Mr, his definition of romance, I. 80.
Epic poetry, Tasso's discourses on, I. 339,
and seq.; marvells necessary in, 266; and
attention to history, II. 129; and uni-
ty, 132; and a proper quantity of subject,
479; fit subjects for, 295.
poets culled beauties from others, I.
56; number of in Italy, 68; tastes of the
different, 285; general misery of the,
341; difference between the Epic and tra-
gic writer, 204.
Erythraeus quoted, II. 191, 370, 432, 415.
Este, family of, account of, and of its sup-
port to literature, I 121, 345, and seq.;
its attachment to France, 157; jealousy of
the Medici, 229, 252.
Alphonso, II. of, Duke of Ferrara,
character of I. 124, 313; his magnificent
court, 125; marriage of, and splendid
pageantry on the occasion, 129; pompous
expedition of, 137; receives Tasso into
his service, and kind treatment of him,
173, 225, 312; explanation which his
flight to France gives of a passage in the
Jerusalem, 192; meets Henry III. at Ve-
nice, 193; wishes to be king of Poland,
194; his hatred of the Medici, 231; ap-
plies to hinder a surreptitious edition of
the Jerusalem, 297; letters of, concerning
Tasso, II 12, 14; his third marriage, 56;
orders Tasso to be confined, 58; his mo-
tives dubious, 86, 160, 413, 452; poetical
supplications to, 408; refuses to be recon-
ciled with Tasso, 315; dies 317.
Anne of, marries the Duke of Guise, I.
132; her character, ibid; explanation of
an important passage of the Jerusalem, al-
luding to this marriage, 350.
Don Caesar of, his marriage, II. 168,
177; driven from Ferrara, becomes Duke
of Modena, $17.
Cardinal Ippolito of, his patronage of
learned men, I. 36, 175; his villa at
voli, 175.
Lewis of, raade Cardinal, I. 125; the
Rinaldo dedicated to him, 97; his affabi-
lity, 129; carries Tasso to France, 161.
Este, Leonora of, account of, 132, 133; her
devotion, 157; friendship for Tasso, 259;
canzone to, by, 135, 352; invites him to
Consandoli, 285; whether he was ena-
moured of her, 143, 156, 161, 188; II.
13, 15, 17, 59; writes him, 9; her sick-
ness and death, 73, and seq.; examination
of the hypothes s which attributes Tasso's
derangement and confinement to love for
this princess, 78, and seq.; 399, 452.
Lucretia o, account of, 1. 132; mar-
ries the Duke of Urbino, 153; carries
Tasso to Cas.el Durante, 186; sonnet on
her beauty, .87; resides at Ferrara, 224;
corresponds with Tasso, 256, 259.
Fairfax, I. 193; misinterprets a passage in
the Jerusalem, 336; his translation, II.
$49, 369.
Ferrara, magnificence of the court of I. 125,
129; danger of to literary men, 345; its
present desolation, 128. See Este.
Feudal system, and its moral effects, I. 69,
and seq.
Ficino, I. 246; II. 170.
Fiction, romantic, hypotheses on the origin
of, I. 82; its probable derivation from
classical fiction, 83, and seq.; circunst, n-
ces in which the writers of romantic
poetry agreed, 86; see also, 328.
Fleuri quoted, I. 264.
Floridar te, a poem of B. Tasso, I. 120, 140
pubished, 11. 187.
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