at sea, from the twelfth canto, with a literal translation:-- _Jam gridor æterias hominum concussit abyssos, Sentiturque ingens cordarum stridor, et ipse Pontus habet pavidos vultus, mortisque colores. Nunc Sirochus habit palmam, nunc Borra superchiat; Irrugit pelagus, tangit quoque fluctibus astra, Fulgure flammigero creber lampezat Olympus; Vela forata micant crebris lacerata balottis; Horrendam mortem nautis ea cuncta minazzant. Nunc sbalzata ratis celsum tangebat Olympum, Nunc subit infernam unda sbadacchiante paludem._ TRANSLATION _Now the clamour of the men shook the ethereal abysses, And the mighty crashing of the ropes is felt, and the very Sea has pale looks, and the hue of death. Now the Sirocco has the palm, now Eurus exults over it; The sea roars, and touches the stars with its waves, Olympus continually blazes out with flaming thunder, The pierced sails glitter torn with frequent thunderbolts; All these threaten frightful death to the sailors. Now the ship tossed up touched the top of Olympus, Now, the wave yawning, it sinks into the infernal lake._ Teofilo Folengo was followed by a number of imitators, of whom it will be sufficient to state that he stands in talent as far above his followers as above those who preceded him. One of these minor Italian macaronic writers, named Bartolommeo Bolla, of Bergamo, who flourished in the latter half of the sixteenth century, had the vanity to call himself, in the title of one of his books, "the Apollo of poets, and the Cocaius of this age;" but a modern critic has remarked of him that he is as far removed from his model Folengo, as his native town Bergamo is distant from Siberia. An earlier poet, named Guarino Capella, a native of the town of Sarsina, in the country of Forli, on the borders of Tuscany, approached far nearer in excellence to the prince of macaronic writers. His work also is a mock romance, the history of "Cabrinus, king of Gagamagoga," in six books or cantos, which was printed at Arimini in 1526, and is now a book of excessive rarity.