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Excerpt from Castelvetro's Theory of Poetry
Lodovico Castelvetro was born in the year 1505, of a noble Citizen family at Modena, thirty miles from Reggio, the birthplace of Ariosto he was eleven years old when the Orlando F arioso was published, and when he died in 1571, Tasso was completing his long labours on the Gerusa lemme Liberata. Castelvetro's parents, Sparing neither diligence nor expense, 1 encouraged his early love of learning, thus enabling him to follow courses of study in the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, and Siena. At his father's wish, he studied law, but his predilec tions lay towards humanistic learning, and, in Siena especially, he had frequent opportunity for contact with like spirits to his own: for in that city, then the second (in Italy) for noble and most ardent minds devoted to the sciences, and particularly to the cultivation Of Philosophy, Erudition, and the more pleasing Letters, was the Accademia degl' Intronati. Attracted by such society, Castelvetro was disposed to extend his stay in Siena longer than was pleasing to his father, who had planned a diplomatic career for his son. So, in deference to his father, he took the doctorate Of Law at Siena, and betook him self to Rome, where a maternal uncle was acting as ambassador to the Pope for Francesco Maria dalla Rovere, Duke of Urbino. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
