[Footnote 30: I need hardly guard myself against being supposed to mean that the form of _Ballata_ in question was the only one of its kind in Italy.] [Footnote 31: See my _Sketches in Italy and Greece_, p. 114.] [Footnote 32: The originals will be found in Carducci's _Studi Letterari_, p. 273 _et seq._ I have preserved their rhyming structure.] [Footnote 33: Stanza XLIII. All references are made to Carducci's excellent edition, _Le Stanze, l'Orfeo e le Rime di Messer Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano._ Firenze: G. Barbéra. 1863.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series, by John Addington Symonds