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Folletto, a, disturbs Tasso, II. 169, 175, 176.
Fontaine, quoted, II. 262.

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Galeani, his work concerning Tasso, I. 191.
Galileo visited by Milton, I. 51; writes a
discourse on the comparative merits of
Tasso and Ariosto, 2:8, 375; why he a-
dopted the mode of dialogue, II. 52.
Genius, necessity of labour to, I. 55; tor-
ments the young, 95; early manifests its
peculiarity, 99; facility of the taste of
men of, 144; unbending dignity of, 171;
should when young be encouraged, 178;
effect of, in increasing misery, 181, and
seq. 307.

Gentili, Scipio, a commentator of the Jeru-
salem, II. 78, 165.

Gesualdo, see Venosa.

Gibbon, his account of Turpin, I. 86; re-
mark on a first work, 104; his account of
the men of genius at Ferrara, 122; of the
temple of love, 129; of Rinaldo, 136; on
submitting a MS. to criticism, 208; quo-
ted, 345; his notion that love was the
cause of Tasso's madness, 367; remarks
Tasso's attention to history in his poem,

II. 129.

Giraldi, his epic poem, I. 90; quoted, 134.
Goethe, his Torquato Tasso, I. 136; beautiful
passage of, 356.

Goldoni, quotations from his Torquato Tasso,
I. 14, 238; II. 1:2, 347.

Gondoliers of Venice, sing the Jerusalem,
II. 131, 455,

Gonzaga, Ferrante, invites Tasso to Mo-

dena, I. 299; kindness to him, II. 98,
143, 217, 322.

Gonzaga, Scipio, a dear friend of Tasso, I.
116, 117, 138, 160; is desirous Tasso
should leave Ferrara, 199; one of the re-
visors of the Jerusalem, 200; letters to, on
this subject, chap. ix, x, xi, passim; love
of Tasso to, 258; visits him, Il. 98; letter
concerning the Crusca, 145; made Pa-
triarch of Jerusalem, 165; created cardi-
nal, 222, 448; his death, 298, analysis
of a letter, and discourse of Tasso to, 896,
and seq.

Vincenzo, prince of Mantua, his
kindness to Tasso, II. 23, 185; dedication
of a dialogue to, 69, 450; visits Tasso, 98;
obtains his deliverance, 179, and seq.;
succeeds his father, 202; dedication to
203; remarks on his character, and on th
probability that he murdered Crichto 1,
446, and seq.

Gray quoted, I. 168; his opinion of Aristotle,

211; account of an Italian fair, II.02;
quoted, 280; admired Tasso, 369.
Gregory XIII. I. 213; compliment to, in
the Jerusalem, 234.

Guarini, Battista, account of, I. 159, 342,

194, 143, 145, 146; a friend of Tasso, 160;
probable cause of Alphonso's persecution
of, 180; quarrels with Tasso, 186, 403;
borrows from the Rinaldo, 332; his Pastor
Fido, 180, 343; compared with he Amin-
ta, S69; letter on the death of Leonora
of Este, II. 451; quoted 95; kind offices
of, to Tasso, 106; quoted, 13; on 'ae
death of Tasso, 336.

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Haslam, Mi, quoted, II. 87, 104.
Hayley, Mr, Pref. ix, xxxiii, 44, 263; II. 17,
231, 289, 461, 467, 469.
Holland, Lord, quoted, I. 340.
Homer, quoted, I. 43; derived assistance
from antecedent writers, 56; is the foun-
tain of fiction, 82; quoted, 149; roman-
tic richness of his Odyssey, 267; remarks
on, 274; his allegories, 100; beautiful
incident in his Odyssey, I. 43; his mode
of praising, 109; reina ks of Tasso on,
480, 481; slavish imitation of by Tasso,
in his Jerusalem Con., ibid, and seq.
Hoole, Mr, I. 32, 116, 198, 351, 382, transla-
tion of part of a canzone, 240; censures
a passage of the Jerus. as abrupt, 250;
remark of, 331; his merit as a translator,
333; mistakes a passage in the Jerus.
337; remark of, II. 290; defends the Je-
rusalem, 362.

Hôpital, chancellor, quoted, I. 27.
Horace, on the immortality conferred by poets,
I. 174; quoted, 177; verses concerning
Hannibal, II. 30; quoted, 189, 446.
Houssaye, A. de, quoted, i. 154; of the gol-
den rose, II. 300.

Hume, recommends the Epigoniad, I. 340;
paraphrases the Syrea's song, of Tasso,

387.

Hurd, Dr, remark of, on Tasso's fictio is, I.
246.

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Imperialis, his account of Crichton, I. 429,
and seq.
Ingegneri, a friend and editor of Ta so, II.
44, 93, 96; assists in the publication of
the Jerus. Con. 292; publishes Tasso's
poem on the creation, 322.

Israeli, d', Mr, quoted, I. 382; II. 131, 455.
Italy favourable to the study of antiquity,
Pref. xi; wandering life of the literary
men of, 5; compared with France, 165.

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Jerusalem Delivered, planned, T. 107; its hap-
Py
choice as a subject, 110; why adopted
by Tasso uncertain, 111, 201; interesting
his patriotic feelings, 112; first sketch of,
ibid; resumed, 136; progress of 138;
sketched in prose, 156, 160; progress of,
165, 174, 191; obscure allusions in, ex-
plained, 192, 350, 234, 336; letters of
Tasso, on the completion of, 195, and seq.;
is.sent to be revised in Rome, 199; its re-
viso s, 200; their defects, 211, 213; ob-
jections to the episode of Olindo and So-
phronia, 214, 248, 279; defended, 215;
cor sidered as too much ornamented, 216;
pe culiarity of the style of, 217; two revi-
sions of, 219; progress of the second re-
v sion, 244, and seq.; origin of a verse in,
235; cancellation in, 249; defence of the
loves, and magic in, 202, 266; allegory of
277, 401; its conformity with the Aristote-

lian rules of poetry, 373; with history,
263; II. 129, 150: a mutilated edition of,
published, 75. other editions, 93; argu-
ments of, 94; controversy regarding it
with the Academy of Crusca, 119, and eq.;
compared with the Orlando, 131 and seq.;
sung by the Gondoliers, 131,455, title of,
not approved by Tasso, 296; remarks on,
ibid; compared with the Conquistata, 297,
482, and seg.; most beautiful stanza in the,
348; source of the defects in the, 355;
criticisms on, 357, and seq.; example of
imitative harmony in, 360; great writers
by whom it has been admired, 367, and
seq.

Conquered, II. 234, 244; Tasso 3
fondness of the, 279, 297; published 295,
remarks and dissertation on, 296, 477, and
seq.

Johnson, Dr, I. 43; writes the dedication of
Hoole's Jerusalem, 122; remarks of, 208,
377; II. 195, 205, 267, 371; dictates an
account of Crichton, 427; remarks on
Milton's style, 475.

Jones, Sir W. I. 17, 242; II. 444.
Jousts, what, I. 75.

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Mackenzie, Dr, mistakes of, II. 427.
Maffei, his theses on leve, I. 147.
Malacreta, quoted, I. 372.

Malatesta, Ginevra, is beloved by B. Tasso,
I. 4, 5, 325; compliment she receives
from Tasso, 147.
Manfredi, II. 107.
Manso, his Life of Tasso, Pref. x; remark
of, on the place of Tasso's birth, 14; his
account of his infancy, 17; of his mistres-
ses, 233; error of, 294; account of Tasso's
meeting with his sister, II. 3; believed the
story of Tasso's love for Leonora, 13, 78;
introduced to Tasso, 228, and seq.; his nar-
rative of the poet's conversation with a spi-
rit, 237; removes Tasso from the house of
the Count of Paleno, 252; dialogue on
Friendship, addressed to, 308; his kindness
to Tasso, 369; last parting with, 319; his
works, 21; bestows the MS, on Friendship,
on the monastery of St Onofrio, 328 wishes
to erect a monument to Tasso, 337; his
account of the poet's person, 342. bon
mots, 347; continence, 250, 446; his ac-

quaintance with Milton, and its conse-
quences, 282, and seq.; 459, and seq.
Manutiu, see Aldus.

Marino, his Adone, I. 941; quoted, II. 19;
his praise of Tasso, 30, 337; acquaintance
with Manso and Tasso, 228, 313; his mo-
nument, 338.

law, 94, quoted 95; early peculiarity of
his genius, 100, quoted 110, 111; his pro-
pensity to love, 142, quoted 185; his opi-
nion of the necessity of labour to genius,
210; his elisions, 218; his garden of Eden,
226, quoted 235; of allegory, 278; his
fondness of music, 286; of Plato, 334;

Marmont 1, remark concerning Didero, I. proposed punctuation of a passage in his

144; Fousseau, 302.
Methias, Mr, II. 335.

Mazzoni, I. 185; II. 431.

Medici, fime of their patronage, to what in
part oving, I. 122; rivalship between, and
the ho use of Este, 124, 229, 252.
Menage, quoted, II. 348.

Menzini, beautiful verses of, on Tassc, II.

132.

Mercenar us, Archangelus, disputes with

Crichton, II. 430.

Mercuriale, Jerome, prescribes for Tasso, II.

110.

Metastasio, of Aristotle's poetics, I. 211, ap-
proves the Episode of Sophronia, 215;
praises Tasso's style, II. 137; letter of, on
the comparative merits of Tasso, and Ari-
osto, 152;' quoted, 157, 206; remarks of,
on rhyme, 303.

Metauro, canzone of Tasso, to the, II. 381.
Mickle, Mr, his prejudiced admiration of
Cariöens, I. 387, and seq; 402.
Millar quoted, I. 73.

Milton, not named by Serassi, I. 19; his ad-
vantages of education, 35; studies mathe-
matics, 51; visits Galileo, ibid. his thirst
of reading, and admiration of Dante and
Petrarch, 55; quoted, 75, 76; his dislike of

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Paradise Lost, 364; his confidence in his
powers, II. 66, qucted 68; verses on Tas-
so's madness, 79; imitates a passage of
Tasso, 164, not fitted to write tragedy,
205; his verses to Manso, 228, 230, 308,
310, 358; compared with those of Tasso,
251; not a wit, 278; proud, 280; fond of
metaphysical research, 285; obligations
to Lubartas, 287; his verses on light, 301;
imitates Tasso, 361, 365, 489; his sonnets
not after the model of Dante, 374; remark
concerning, 430; his introduction to Man-
so, 22, and seq. Dissertation on his emula-
tion cf Tasso, 459, and seq.
Misfortunes, effects of early, on the mind, I.

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of Leo X. 229; of Montecatino, 237,
quoted 317, 345, 34; patronised by the
family of Este, 349; anecdote of Tasso,
II. 15; remarks on the poet's confinement,
82, 454; character of Vincenzo Gonzaga,

448.

Muretus, I. 164; remark of Tasso concern-
ing, II. 325.

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Naples, beauties of, II. 227.
Newton, I. 99, II. 90.

Niegossecio Stanislaus, account of, II. 489.
Nobili Flaminio de, a revisor of the Jerusa-
lem, I. 201; his scrupulousness, 213; re-
mark of, 272.

Papio John A. I. 25, 28, 106, II. 190, 220.
Pasquier, misrepresented, II. 427.
Pastor fido, see Guarini.

Pastoral comedy invented, and perfected at
Ferrara, 1. 123, 141.

Pedantry, at the revival of literature, I. 205.
Pellegrino Camillo, a 'dialogue of, II. 122,
235, 289.

Petrarch, a favourite of Milton and Tasso,
I. 55, 56; his delicate manner of treating
love, 79; a friend of the Princes of Ferrara,
346, quoted II. 2, 70, 71, 72, 81, 264; his
little satisfaction from his triumph, $21,
quoted 349; his excellence in lyric poetry,
373, 374.

Nores Monsig. de, letter of, concerning Tas- Philip II. of Spain, his neglect of the Ama-

so, II. 323.

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Oddi Father, his whimsical objections to the
Jerusalem, I. 202; kindness to Tasso, II.

248.

Olindo, see Jerusalem.

Orlando Furioso, see Ariosto.

Ossat Cardinal, quoted, 11. 384, 448.

Ovid, his dislike of law, I. 31, lines on his
banishment, 319, quoted I. 61; writes
arguments to Virgil, 935.

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Palaye St, I. 75; remark of, on the decay of

tournaments in France, 126.

Paleno Count of, his kindness to Tasso, II.

27, 236, 245, 278; the poet's suspicions
of him, 281.

Palingenius, I. $48.

digi, I. 63, 118.

Philips, his Splendid Shilling, II. 472.
Piccolomini, his commentary on the Poetics,
I. 213.

Pigna, I. 102; a favourite of Alphonso, 145;
his canzoni commented on by Tasso, 144:
introduced into the Aminta, 145, 178; and
Jerusalem, 145; death of, 236.
Pinel, quoted, I. 292, 308; II. 16.
Pinelli, L. 202; II. 112.

Place la, quoted, II. 280.

Plato, admiration entertained for him by the
epic poets, I. 334; his dialogues, II. 50, 55;
deeply studied by Tasso, 242, 326, 353.
Pole Cardinal, I. 46.

Pope, verses of on delicacy of sensation, I.
183; beautiful address to, II. 120; resem-
blance of to Tasso, 138, quoted 243.
Possevino, his history of the house of Gon-
zaga, II. 445, 448.

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