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 NOTES TO THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER age, active in works of piety and charity, and employing his leisure in study and in the society of a certain noble lady for whom he had formed a lasting Platonic friendship. His writings include marine eclogues, elegies, etc., in Latin, but his best known work is L' Arcadia, an Italian prose romance inter- spersed with verse, of which sixty editions are said to have appeared before 1600. It is regarded by Mahaffy as having originated the idea that the Greek Arcadia was the especial home of pastoral poetry, and probably served Sidney as a model for his poem of the same name. Hardly less famous were Sanna- zaro's anti-Borgian epigrams, to which Symonds ascribes no small part of the gruesome legend of Lucrezia's crimes. He was buried in a church built by him near the so-called tomb of Virgil, and his monument behind the high altar bears the Latin inscription by Bembo, in which he is described as " near alike to Virgil's muse and sepulchre." Note 176, page 113. Motet is " a term which for the last three hundred years has been almost exclusively applied to certain pieces of church music, of mod- erate length, adapted to Latin words (selected, for the most part, either from Holy Scripture, or the Roman office-books), and intended to be sung at high mass, either in place of, or immediately after, the Plain Chaunt Offertoriunt of the Day." (Grove.) The motet was sometimes founded on the air of some non-sacred song, as in the case of Josquin's Stabat Mater, which was based upon the ballad Comme Femme. (Ambros.) Note 177, page 113. JOSQUIN (more properly JOSSE) DE Pres, (born about 1450; died 1521), seems to have been a native of St. Quentin, Hainault, Belgium, and was one of the celebrated musicians of the Renaissance. Having been the pupil of Ockenheim, the greatest composer of the day, he was at the papal court of Sixtus IV, and successively in the service of Lorenzo de' Medici, Louis XII of France, and the Emperor Maximilian I. He returned to Italy about 1503 and lived at the court of Ferrara. He is the earliest composer whose works are preserved in such quantity as adequately to present his power, and was called " the father of harmony " by Dr. Burney. Music began to be printed (1498) when Josquin was in his prime. Note 178, page 114. Other contemporary evidence amply confirms this account of the occasional grossness that marked the table manners of the period. Note 179, page 115. The two princes here referred to are Ferdinand the Catholic of Spain (see note 392) and Louis XII of France (see note 250). Note 180, page 116. Paolo Niccol5 Vernia, called Nicoletto (little Nick) from his shortness of stature, (died 1499), was a native of Chieti, near the Adriatic. He probably studied at Padua, and remained there teaching physics, although in 1444 he took his degree in philosophy, and fourteen years later in medicine. He wrote chiefly on philosophy, but was noted also as a wit. 359