The nurse, a poem / translated from the Italian of Luigo Tansillo ; by William Roscoe.

  • Tansillo, Luigi, 1510-1568.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The nurse, a poem / translated from the Italian of Luigo Tansillo ; by William Roscoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    r these circumstances, his charader as a poet stood high even among the most eminent of his contem- poraries. In the dialogue of Toaquato Tasso, en- titled II Gonzago, that celebrated author enume- rates Tansillo amongst the few writers to whose sonnets he gives the appellation of leggiadre, or elegant. The same opinion has been confirmed by- subsequent critics, cited by Zeno, in his Giornak cf Italia, vol. xi. one of whom in particular has not hesitated to assert, that Tansillo is a much better lyric poet than even Petrarca himself, It must however be observed, that this kind of commenda- tion, which is intended to elevate one distinguish- ed character at the expense of another, is of all praise the most equivocal. As every good author has his peculiar e;> cellencies, so he will have his peculiar admirers. What purpose is answered by