Chapter VIII: Ariosto

Ancestry and Birth of Ariosto--His Education--His Father's Death--Life at Reggio--Enters Ippolito d'Este's Service--Character of the Cardinal--Court Life--Composition and Publication of the _Furioso_--Quiet Life at Ferrara--Comedies--Governorship of Garfagnana--His Son Virginio--Last Eight Years--Death--Character and Habits--The Satires--Latin Elegies and Lyrics--Analysis of the Satires--Ippolito's Service--Choice of a Wife--Life at Court and Place-hunting--Miseries at Garfagnana--Virginio's Education--Autobiographical and Satirical Elements--Ariosto's Philosophy of Life--Minor Poems--Alessandra Benucci--Ovidian Elegies--Madrigals and Sonnets--Ariosto's Conception of Love 493

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APPENDICES.

No. I.--Note on Italian Heroic Verse 523

No. II.--Ten Sonnets translated from Folgore da San Gemignano 526

No. III.--Translations from Alesso Donati 531

No. IV.--Jacopone's "Presepio," "Corrotto," and "Cantico dell'Amore Superardente," translated into English Verse 532

No. V.--Passages translated from the "Morgante Maggiore" of Pulci 543

No. VI.--Translations of Elegiac Verses by Girolamo Benivieni and Michelangelo Buonarroti 561

RENAISSANCE IN ITALY.