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NOTES old Guelf family. (Par. xvi. 104.) A merchant. Held office under the Commune during the affair of the Ciompi. Probably died of the plague in 1400. Wrote more than 200 novelle and a great quantity of verse.

 (page 164 foll.). Lamentations of unwilling nuns and of young women with vigilant parents are frequent in popular Italian poetry.

 (page 170). Born at Venice. Procuratore of San Marco, 1443. A classical scholar; translated Plutarch. Wrote many Strambotti and Canzonette, modelled on the popular songs of Italy, and set them to music. The strambotto probably had its origin in Sicily [v. A. D'Ancona, La poesia popolare italiana, Livorno, 1906]. Wrote sacred poems late in his life.

 (page 171). Ferrarese: fl. temp. Niccolò III d'Este. Wrote Le Fatiche d'Ercole and a commentary on Boccaccio's Teseide.

 (page 174). Born at Scandiano. A favourite at the court of Ferrara during the reigns of Borso d'Este and Ercole I; was one of the courtiers appointed to receive the Emperor Frederick III; went to Rome with Borso, where the latter was granted the title of duke by Paul II, 1471. Capitano ducale of Modena, 1481–3, of Reggio 1487–94. Orlando Innamorato, Amorum liber (in three books: Reggio, 1499), Capitoli sopra el timore, Ecloghe; Timone, a comedy in five acts based on one of Lucian's dialogues, and some translations and Latin poems. [Sonetti e Canzoni di M. M. Boiardo, ed. Panizzi, Milano, 1845.]

 (page 180). Born at Pesaro; studied law in Padua; judge at Bologna, 1472–3, procuratore generale at Pesaro for Costanzo Sforza, 1477. Went on an embassy to Sixtus IV, 1483; became involved in legal tangle and was imprisoned for sixteen months; afterwards exiled. Went into the service of Lorenzo the Magnificent; was podestà of Florence in 1490; ducal councillor of 546