Tu libero e disciolto, Sei di pallor dipinto; Io di catene avvinto, Sento pietà di te. Adoration of Divinity: Te solo adoro, Mente infinita, Fonte di vita, Di verità; In cui si move, Da cui dipende Quanto comprende L'eternità. A faithless friend will never make a faithful lover: Avran le serpi, O cara, Con le colombe il nido, Quando un amico infido Fido amator sarà. Nell' anime innocenti, Varie non son fra loro Le limpide sorgenti D'Amore e d'amistà. If the sorrows of everybody could be known, how few would be envied: Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si vedesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai ch' invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pietà! Si vedria che i lor nemici Hanno in seno; e si riduce Nel parere a noi felici Ogni lor felicità. The age of gold still lives in the hearts of the innocent: Ah! ritorna, età dell'oro, Alla terra abbandonata, Se non fosti immaginata Nel sognar felicità. Non è ver; quel dolce stato Non fuggì, non fu sognato; Ben lo sente ogn' innocente Nella sua tranquillità. CHAPTER XIV. PARINI. If the Eighteenth Century was frivolous and luxurious, it was also picturesque and elegant. The age of Dresden china, the age of Watteau and Liotard in painting, must also have left its impress of refined gaiety on poetry. We find that impress in the satires of Pope, in the lighter poems of Voltaire, and in the musical verse of Parini. GIUSEPPE PARINI was born of humble parents at Bosisio, a hamlet in the district of Milan, near the lake of Pusiano, on the twenty-second of May, 1729. He was educated in Milan at the Arcimboldi Gymnasium, under the direction of the Barnabite Fathers. He showed marked ability and strong inclination for literature. But he had his parents to support, and necessity forced him to become a law-writer. This occupation furnished him with the means of studying Theology, and he entered the priesthood. In 1752 he published his first volume of poems, which, immature as it was, contained sufficient elements of promise to gain for him many friends and admirers, and he was elected a member of the Academy of the Trasformati of Milan and of the Arcadia of Rome. Still, he was in great distress, and he was compelled by poverty to become a tutor in private families, and when his father died, he sold the bit of land that came to him in order to supply his mother with the necessaries of life. But, in spite of misfortune, his ambition was not dormant, and he determined that nothing from his pen should see the light until it was brought to the utmost height of perfection. He conceived the plan of his great work, _Il Giorno,_ and the first part, entitled _Il Mattino,_ was published in 1763, and the second part, entitled _Meriggio,_ two years later.