[387] See C. Mazzi, La congrega dei Rozzi di Siena, i. p. 139 and ii. p. 100.  Carducci, 31^{2}.  Also Rossi, 174^{3}; his suggestion of the possible identity of the two last-mentioned pieces has been shown by later research to be inadmissible.

[388] A battle was fought at Tai, near Pieve di Cadore.

[389] The number of such pieces is very large.  A list appended to the Assetta in 1756 runs to 109 items.  An exhaustive bibliography will be found in Mazzi’s work.  See also the useful collection by Giulio Ferrario, forming vol. x of the ‘Teatro antico’ in the ‘Classici italiani,’ Milan, 1812.  It is unfortunate that Symonds should have referred to Ferrario’s list as evidence of the fertility of the pastoral drama, even though adding that the list is ‘devoted solely to rural scenes of actual life,’ since he can hardly escape the charge of regarding the rustic compositions as part of the pastoral drama proper—­a position to which they certainly have no claim.

[390] Not, of course, to be confused with the sacra rappresentazione so called.

[391] See F. Flamini’s edition of Tansillo’s poems, Napoli, 1893.  Rossi, 171^{1}; Carducci, 39^{2}.

[392] Used, for example, by Sannazzaro, in his Farsa.  See his ’Opere volgari,’ Padova, 1723, p. 422.

[393] See E. Percopo, ‘M.  Ant.  Epicuro,’ in the Giornale storico, 1888, xii. p. 1.  Carducci, 39^{1}.  The earliest edition with the later title I have met with is one dated 1533, in my possession.  The British Museum has none earlier than 1535.

[394] Siena, Mazochi, 1530.  Carducci, 44^{3}.

[395] It continued to be occasionally reprinted till as late as 1612.  Carducci, 44.

[396] Venezia, Zoppino, 1538.  Carducci, 43^{1}.

[397] It may have been a direct borrowing, for we know that Tasso was acquainted with the plays of Epicuro, whom he imitated in his Rinaldo (V. 25, &c.).  The Mirzia is printed in ‘I drammi pastorali di A. Marsi,’ ed.  I. Palmerini, Bologna, 1887-8.  See also Percopo in the Giornale, as cited.  Carducci, 62.  The authorship is a little doubtful.  Creizenach, ii. 365^{1}.

[398] Firenze, 1545.  Carducci, 46^{1}.

[399] Rime, Venezia, Giolito, 1546.  Carducci, 51^{1}.

[400] Vinegia, Bertacagno, 1553.  Carducci, 53^{1}.

[401] Egle, s.l. et a.  Rossi, 176^{1}; Carducci, 54.

[402] This strong feeling concerning the incestuous nature of connexion between cousins, however strange to us, appears to have been very real in Italy in the sixteenth century. Sorella germana, a common term for a female cousin, is in itself sufficient evidence of the feeling.  Readers of the novelle will remember the discussion on the subject by Pietro Fortini in his Novelle de’ Novizi, xxxi.  The explanation of the phenomenon is no doubt to be sought in the peculiar conventions of Italian society.