Ferdinando Francesco dagli Avalos, Marquis of Pescara (1496-1525), took Milan November 19, 1521, fought at Lodi, etc., was wounded at the battle of Padua, February 24, 1525. He was the husband of Vittoria Colonna, and when he was in captivity at Ravenna wrote some verses in her honour. François Eugene (1663-1736), Prince of Savoy-Carignan, defeated the French at Turin, 1706, and (with Marlborough) at Malplaquet, 1709; the Turks at Peterwardein, 1716, etc. Raimondo Montecuccoli, a Modenese (1608-1680), defeated the Turks at St. Gothard in 1664, and in 1675-6 commanded on the Rhine, and out-generalled Turenne and the Prince de Condé] [302] Columbus, Americus Vespusius, Sebastian Cabot. [Christopher Columbus (circ. 1430-1506), a Genoese, discovered mainland of America, 1498; Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), a Florentine, explored coasts of America, 1497-1504; Sebastian Cabot (1477-1557), son of Giovanni Cabotto or Gavotto, a Venetian, discovered coasts of Labrador, etc., June, 1497.] [303] {263}[Compare-- "Ah! servile Italy, griefs hostelry! A ship without a pilot in great tempest!" _Purgatorio_, vi. 76, 77.] [cf] _Yet through this many-yeared eclipse of Woe_. --[MS. Alternative reading.] _Yet through this murky interreign of Woe_.--[MS. erased.] [cg] _Which choirs the birds to song_---.--[MS. Alternative reading.] [ch] _And Pearls flung down to regal Swine evince_.--[MS. Alternative reading.] [ci] _The whoredom of high Genius_----.--[MS. Alternative reading.] [304] {264}[Alfieri, in his _Autobiography_ ... (1845, _Period III_. chap. viii. p. 92) notes and deprecates the servile manner in which Metastasio went on his knees before Maria Theresa in the Imperial gardens of Schoenbrunnen.] [cj] _And prides itself in prostituted duty_.--[MS. Alternative reading.] [305] A verse from the Greek tragedians, with which Pompey took leave of Cornelia [daughter of Metellus Scipio, and widow of P. Crassus] on entering the boat in which he was slain. [The verse, or verses, are said to be by Sophocles, and are quoted by Plutarch, in his Life of Pompey, c. 78, _Vitæ_, 1814, vii. 159. They run thus-- Ὅστις γὰρ ὡς τύραννον ἐμπορεύεται, Κείνου ἐστὶ δοῦλος, κἂν ἐλεύθερος μῃ. ("Seek'st thou a tyrant's door? then farewell, freedom! Though _free_ as air before.") _Vide Incert. Fab. Fragm_., No. 789, _Trag. Grec. Fragm_., A. Nauck, 1889, p. 316.] [306] The verse and sentiment are taken from Homer. [Ἥμισυ γάρ τ' ἀρετῆς ἀποαίνυται εὐρύοπα Ζεύς ᾿Ανέρος, εὗτ᾿ ἅν μιν κατὰ δούλιον ἦμαρἕλῃσιν. _Odyssey_, xvii. 322, 323.] [307] {265}Petrarch. [Dante died September 14, 1321, when Petrarch, born July 20, 1304, had entered his eighteenth year.]