Time was, the trade was nobler, if not honest; When they that robb'd were men of better faith Than kings or pontiffs; where such reverence The poet drew among the woods and wilds, A voice was heard, that never bade to spare, Crying aloud, "Hence to the distant hills! Tasso approaches; he, whose song beguiles The day of half its hours; whose sorcery Dazzles the sense, turning our forest glades To lists that blaze with gorgeous armoury, Our mountain-caves to regal palaces: Hence, nor descend till he and his are gone. Let him fear nothing!" (ROGERS, _Italy: Banditti_, 5-17).--T. [188] Ippolito Aldobrandini, Pope Clement VIII. (1536-1605), elected Pope in 1592.--T. [189] LUKE, XXIII., 46.--T. [190] Now the Quai Voltaire.--T. [191] Giovanni Battista Manso, Marchese Della Villa (1561-1645). Milton was ambitious of his acquaintance, as the friend of Tasso, and was introduced to him in Naples in 1638. To him Milton addressed his Latin epistle, _Ad Mansum_; Tasso had addressed his dialogue on Friendship to him and complimented him in the twentieth canto of the _Gerusalemme Conquistata_, as the introduction to _Ad Mansum_ shows: "Joannes Baptista Mansus, Marchio Villensi, vir ingenii laude, turn literarum studio necnon et bellica virtute, apud Italos clarus in primus est; ad quern Torquati Tassi Dialogus extat di Amicitia scriptus; erat enim Tassi amicissimus; ab quo etiam inter Campanile principes celebratur, in ilio poemate cui titulus 'Gerusalemme Conquistata,' lib. 20. Fra cavalier magnanimi, è cortesi Risplende il Manso. "Is auctorem Neapoli commorantem summa benevolentia prosecutus est, multaque ei detulit humanitalis officia: ad hunc itaque hospes ille, antequam ab ea urbe discederet, ut ne ingratum se ostenderet hoc carmen misit."--T. [192] In Venice, in 1806.--_Author's Note._ [193] Titian.--_Author's Note._ [194] In 1803.--_Author's Note._ [195] I was right in saying the orange-tree: it is an orange-tree that stands in the convent-yard of Sant' Onofrio.--_Author's Note_ (Paris, 1840). [196] This is one of several cases in which the author coins a word: his expression, _nécrolithe_, is not known in the French dictionaries.--T. [197] Obizzo I. first Marquis of Este (_fl._ 1180); Obizzo II. Marquis of Este and Lord of Ferrara and Verona (_d._ 1293) added Modena and Reggio to his dominions.--T. [198] Nicholas III. Marquis of Este (_d._ 1471) was the father of. [199] Hercules I. first Duke of Ferrara (_d._ 1505), the father of Alphonsus I.--T. [200] FONTANES (_Cf._ Vol III., p. 10): "Tasso, wandering from town to town, One day, by his evils overcome, Sat down by the sumptuous laurel-trees Which spread out for ever to the breeze Their green branches over Virgil's tomb," etc.--T.