[373] Edited from MS. by Felice Bariola, with other poems of Taccone’s, Firenze, 1884, p. 14.  Rossi, 166^{2}; Carducci, 28^{1}.

[374] Printed in the ‘Opere dello elegante poeta Seraphino Aquilano,’ Venetia, Bindoni, 1516, sig.  D5.  Rossi, 167^{1}.  For the date, Carducci, 29^{2}.

[375] Of these authors little or nothing appears to be known.  Both pieces have come down to us in MS.; see Adolfo Bartoli, Mss. italiani della Nazionale di Firenze, Firenze, 1884, ii. pp. 138 and 163.  Concerning the first, see further, Poesie inedite di G. Del Carretto, by A. G. Spinelli, Savona, pp. 10-15; concerning the second, R. Renier, in the Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, 1885, v. p. 236, note 1.  Rossi, 167^{2},^{3}; Carducci, 30^{2}, 28^{3}.

[376] Opere, 1516, as cited, sig.  E. Rossi, 167^{4}.

[377] In Rime, ed.  P. Fanfani, 1876-8, ii. p. 225.  Rossi, 168^{1}.

[378] Rossi, 169^{2}.  Carducci, 26^{3}.

[379] See B. Croce, ’Napoli dal 1508 al 1512 (da un antico romanzo spagnuolo),’ in Archivio storico per le provincie napolitane, anno xix, fasc. i, pp. 141 and 157.  Carducci, 29^{1}.

[380] Opera nova, Venetia, Rusconi, 1508.  In the old edition the pieces are merely termed ‘commedie,’ the designation ‘pastorali’ being due to the ‘Arcadian,’ G. M. Crescimbeni, whose Istoria delia volgar poesia originally appeared in 1698.  Carducci, 41^{1}.

[381] See Carducci, p. 35.  Stiefel, being only aware of the edition of 1543, hoped to find in the piece a link between Casalio and Beccari.  Among several female characters introduced is one ’la quale volentieri starebbe in mezzo di due amanti o mariti:  il che,’ pursues Carducci, ’e del tutto opposto all’ idealita delia favola pastorale.’  One would have thought that certain traits in the characters of Dafne and Corisca would have occurred to him.  Bitter satire on women was indeed one of the most permanent features of pastoral comedy, as it had been of the Latin eclogue.

[382] See D’Ancona, ‘II teatro mantovano nel secolo XVI,’ in the Giornale storico, v. p. 19.  Rossi, 170^{1}.

[383] See G. Campori, Notizie sulla vita di L. Ariosto, Modena, 1871, p. 68.  Rossi, 172^{1}.  No mention of these is made by Carducci, his thesis being that the ecloga rappresentativa did not obtain at Ferrara, the home par excellence of the Arcadian drama.  Thus, on p. 54 he writes:  ’Delie parecchie ecloghe pastorali e rusticali passate in rassegna fin qui non una ce n’ e o scritta o rappresentata o stampata in Ferrara, non una d’origine ferrarese.  In Ferrara entriamo classicamente e signorilmente con l’Egle [1545].’

[384] Rossi, 173^{1}.  Carducci, 37.

[385] See L. Frati, ‘Un’ ecloga msticale del 1508,’ in the Giornale storico, xx(1892), p. 186.  Carducci, 27^{2}.

[386] See O. Guerrini, Narrazione di Paolo Palliolo, Bologna, Romagnoli, 1885, p. 96.  Carducci, 31^{1}.