_I look at the crisp golden-threaded hair Whereof, to thrall my heart, Love twists a net; Using at times a string of pearls for bait, And sometimes with a single rose therein. I look into her eyes, which unaware, Though mine own eyes to her heart penetrate; Their splendour, that is excellently great, To the sun’s radiance seeming near akin, Vet from herself a sweeter light to win. So that I, gazing on that lovely one, Discourse in this wise with my secret thought: “Woe’s me! why am I not, Even as my wish, alone with her alone,-- That hair of hers, so heavily uplaid, To shed down braid by braid, And make myself two mirrors of her eyes Within whose light all other glory dies?_” Another writer of mark, nearer than Fazio to Dante both in style and subject, is FREDERICO FREZZI, citizen and bishop of Foligno, who died at the Council of Constance in 1416. His _Quatriregio_, a moral poem describing the author’s progress through the realms of Love, Pluto, the Vices and Virtue, so close an imitation of Dante as to border upon servility, is, notwithstanding, not a mean performance. Frezzi has considerable rhetorical, if not much poetical power, and many passages are really impressive. The diction also is good; but the book’s chief repute at this day is among artists, on account of the remarkable designs adorning the edition of 1506, which present an affinity to Botticelli’s illustrations of Dante, and have been attributed, although on insufficient authority, to Luca Signorelli. The poem was republished at Foligno in 1725, with a learned commentary, of which it was in great need. MATTEO PALMIERI’S poem, _Città di Vita_, probably much in Frezzi’s style, arouses interest from its having been suppressed as heretical, but its poetical merit has never yet sufficed to allure a publisher. “The object,” says Symonds, who read it in MS., “is to show how free-will is innate in men.” It is founded upon an actual vision, according lo the assertion of the author.