Eclogues; edited with introd. and notes by Wilfred P. Mustard

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o Mantua. 8. The more important later Variant arementioned in re notes. The pellin is modi fie to fuit the conveniene of the modern reader. The punctuation S

words Hen the se leaden sediment V of ootnotes. I amrather astianae of this unlovel feature, ut I feel that nyone ho has te to fini an modem account o Mantuanwhicli is at oce definite and accurate ill e incline to excuse it Pthaps Iciliould ad that a partis in materiallias atready en printed in the Transactions of the American Philologra Association, Ol. XL. have de ted a good ea os pace to the stor of Mantuan's oularit in England and trie to ho sonaething of thel recise ange and character of his influencethere. I x ut be interestin to no v hether his Eclogues ex cise any suci influence in Italy, o France, o Germany ut that subjec must be est to therS. M Notesare maint concerned illi the question os

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T HIS edition has been repare in the ope that omescholar might e la to stud a se of orgo ite poemSwhicli ad a very considerable influence pon the Englisti

o Mantua, 498. The more important later Variant arementione in the notes. The pellin is modifie to fuit the convenienCe of the modem reader. The punctuation S

words Hen e the V leaden sediment V of ootnotes. I amrather astianae of this unlovel feature, ut I feel that nyone ho has trie to findon modem account o Mantuanwhi h is at orice definite an accurate ill e incline toeaecus it. Perhaps Iciliould ad that a par of m materiallias atready been printed in the Transactions of the American Philological Ssociation, Ol. XL. have devote a good ea os pace to the Stor of Mantuan' popularit in England an trie to ho Something of the precise ange an Character of his influencethere. It wout be interestin to no whether his Eclogue exercise any suci influenCe in Italy o France, o Germany but that subject must be est to therS. Μ Νotes are maint concerne with the question of

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S PREFACEul nae age, and besides the reade may be la to aveth Eclogues printed for iace, O that he an See more hana e lines at a time. ver since Ascensius publi hed his long-live commentary the have regulari been Printed with alternate stretches of eX an noles Ora the Same age. hos e that mos of m obligation to earlier riter arediat achnowledge in the ootnotes My Introductior is much etter hancit might have been ecause of the generosit of r. HENRY ALTERs o Baltimore, ho allo edme the ree se of his magnificent private librar o Italian incunabula. An it is further enriched by material hich was able to collec las Summe during a vacation Our of the reat public libraries of Italy It ives me pie ureto recal the uniform Courtes and in iness hicli I received rom various librar ossiciat in Turin, Milan. Mantua Ferrara Bologna, and a doren other cities And

pie arat. V. P. M.

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PAGE INTRODUCTION

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INTRODUCTION

Venetia, Venetia, Chi non ti ede non ii pretia.

This later Mantuan a bor Apri 17, 448. He was a pupil of Gregorio Tifernate and of Georgius Merula '

In ne of the letters of sabella d Este Aug. 23, 5o4 he is

calle R. frate Bap. pagnolo V S. vo Arx Romanische ForSchungen, XXVI, 8I3. In a proclamatio of the arquis of Mantua June 25, 3Iq he R. in mag. ' Bap. pagnolo V Luzio- Renter, tornate storico delia letteratura taliana, XXXIV, 37. In the closin nove of Sabadino' Porretiane hecis maestro Baptista Spagnolo maniciano. Tiraboschi ,ives thii date, from documents of the Carmelite monastery ab Mantua.' In in litile poem Vitae suae stilom iurauthor states that he was bor in the rei gn o Pope Nicholas V istius accepi lucis primordia quintus in solio Petri cum icolaus erat V-whicli means no earlier thai Marcii , I 447. In the dedi cator episti prefixe to his Eclogues, Sept. I, 498, he calis im-self quinquagenarius'. He eem to have studie unde both of these eacher atiantua: F. Gabotto, Ancora tin letterato det Quattrocento, Ι 89Ο, PP. 22-23.

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aiid e aster variis studi ei philosoph a Padua. About i 0 he en tered the Carmeli te monaster a Mantua. In 147 he was appo in te lector V in the monaster of an Martino a Bologna. 'Dur in his term o service here his monaster Was visited

by the plague; but he was heltere an nursed by wealth frien in the ity, Lodovico oscarari:

Nuper in cenobium nostrum dirae pestilentiae immisso veneno toti urbi coeperamus esse timori pellebamur non a colloquio tantum

verum etiam a consPectu hominum . . . interclusi eramus nec ulla videbatur evadendi via omnia mortem intentabant . . . tu cum Refrigeri nostro . . . Pem vitae confirmasti, xenia misisti, in amplas

ac magnificas aedes tuas hospitio me suscepisti, lautissime et elegantissime savisti.'

An he fierward found a refugerat the villa o Gio Baptista Refrigerio, in the upper ater of the torrent Cla

terna, On the way to Rome :Gregorio seem to have been in Mantua rom April, 46o, ill December, I 46 Merula, rom 46 tili 463. Gregorio a the Umber V of the Ecloguos IV, I, 3 I. 246 I. V IOD VII, IO; IX, 2oo , a Mantuan himself explaine to Thomas Wolf, r. in theyear 5OΟ. See note o Ecl. IV, I. Cf. also the pologia rittenby the poei' brother Tolonaeo: Gregorium Tiphernatem quem poeta noster habuit praeceptorem V Lyon ed. I 3I6, sol Ee, v), anda et ter rit te by Mantuano Pico della Mirandola, the o unger, Jan. 3, 495 mors Georgii Merulae primum condiscipuli postea praeceptoris mei nam sub Gregorio Tiphernate commilitavimus tristitia me affecit V Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Concordiae Comitis opera, Bolo a d. I 496 fol. I 6 Ib . See the dedication os his elogues ante religionem, dum in gymnasio Paduano philosophari inciperem. Religio placuit iuveni,' etci, ita suae Epito me. The date usuali given, 464 seem to e to early. The rs ei glit Eclogues were rit te ante religionem V the ourth lament the de ath fGregorio Tifernate and Gregorio seem to have live a least illI464. Florido Ambrogio, De rebus gestis ac scriptis operibus aptistae Mantuani Turin, 784, p. 28. In the ille os the De vita beata prin te in i 474 he is calle Prosessor V. Probabi c. 478 se Muratori, Annali ' Italia, Anno 478. L. Frati ives the exac date as 479, Giorn. stor. d. leti ita , XII, 327. Dedicatio of the rs Parrhenice, Published Feb. II. 48I.