[159] Ercole Bentivoglio (_circa_ 1512-1573), the poet and diplomatist, was born at Bologna; Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio (1579-1644), Nuncio to Flanders (1607) and France (1617) and author of _Della Guerra di Flandra_ (1633-1639), Letters (1631) and Memoirs (1648), was born at Ferrara, as was Cornelio Cardinal Bentivoglio, Archbishop of Carthage (1668-1732), Nuncio to France and the author of some sonnets and a translation of Statius' _Thebais._--T. [160] Pietro Cardinal Bembo (1470-1547), born in Venice, created a cardinal in 1539 and Keeper of the Library of St. Mark. He was the author of poems, letters, a History of Venice in Latin, and the _Asolani_, a series of dialogues on the nature of love.--T. [161] Daniello Bartoli (1608-1685), born at Ferrara, Rector of the College of Jesuits in Rome, and author of an important _Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù_ (1653-1675) and various physical treatises.--T. [162] Matteo Maria Bojardo, Conte di Scandiano (_circa_ 1434-1494), born at Reggio di Modena, author of _Orlando Innamorato_ (1495), of which Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_ is the continuation.--T. [163] Ippolyto Pindemonte (1753-1828), the poet, and Giovanni Pindemonte (1751-1812), his brother, the dramatist, were both born at Verona.--T. [164] Alfonso Marchese di Varano (1705-1788), the poet, was born at Ferrara.--T. [165] Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828), born at Fusignano, near Ravenna, author of the _Bassevilliana_(1793), directed against the French Revolution, and a number of other poems, tragedies and translations. Monti was Historiographer to the Court of Italy under Napoleon and a member of the Italian Institute.--T. [166] Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was a native of Sorrento, but his father, Bernardo Tasso, was a North Italian, having been born in Venice in 1493.--T. [167] Melchiore Cesarotti (1730-1808), born at Padua, a poet and miscellaneous writer. His translation of Ossian (1763) is his finest work, but he is also known for his _Saggio sulla Filosofia delle Lingue_ (1785) and a number of prose and metrical translations besides that mentioned.--T. [168] Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), known as Guercino, or the Squintling, from an accident which distorted his right eye in babyhood: a well-known painter of the Eclectic-Bologna School.--T. [169] Ferrara Cathedral was consecrated in 1136; the interior was spoilt in the seventeenth century.--T. [170] Ferrara was handed back to the Papal States in 1814, but the Austrians retained the right to keep a garrison there.--T. [171] Bernardo Tasso (1493-1569), Torquato Tasso's father, author of the _Amadigi di Francia_ (Amadis of Gaul, 1560) and a quantity of other poems, died at Ostiglia on the 14th of September 1569.--T. [172] _Rinaldo_ was published in 1562, while Tasso was a youth of eighteen studying law at Padua.--T. [173] Produced at Ferrara in 1573.--T.