The nurse : a poem / translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo by William Roscoe.

  • Tansillo, Luigi, 1510-1568.
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The nurse : a poem / translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo by William Roscoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appearance in thè sanie year at Naples, in a small quarto of eight leaves, under thè be- fore mentioned title, and was afterwards printed with many variations, in several collections of Italian poetry. The Stanze in lode della Menta, have also been attributed to Tansillo, and bear so strong a resemblance to his manner, that they have in some edi- tions been united with, and forni a part of thè Vendemmiatore. In thè year 1 539, Tansillo accompanied his great benefactor Don Garzia di Toledo, then generai of thè Neapolitan galleys to Sicily ; where, in thè month of December in thè sanie year, that nobleman gave a splendid reception to Donna' Antonia Car- dona, daughter of thè Marquis of Collesano, to vvhoni he then paid his addresses. On tliis