CONJECTURES AND RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE LOVE, MADNESS, AND IMPRISONMENT OF TORQUATO TASSO, BY RICHARD HENRY WILDE. VOL. I. Di mia favola, lunga il filo incerto Non può, se Dio non manda il cielo aperto, T. TASSO.-Sopra gli accidenti, della sua vita. Ebbe la fama, che volontier mirro. DANTE.-Paradiso, canto vi., v. 46-48. Quel da Esti il fe far, che m' avea in ira DANTE.-Purgatorio, canto v., v. 77, 78. NEW YORK: ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, 54 GOLD STREET. 1842. 782t 54525 Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER, 112 Fulton Street PQ4648 A5W5 1842 ΤΟ v.l MAIN JOHN W. WILDE, ESQ. MY DEAR BROTHER, An affection like ours rarely shows itself in words, and, if I now allow it utterance, it is rather in homage to truth than in compliment to you. If I knew any one more worthy of my esteem and regard than yourself, I might spare you the pain of a dedication; but, in all that tries the heart, you only have always withstood the proof, and to you my first work must be inscribed, that flattery or falsehood may not stain the inscription. RICHARD HENRY WILDE. Florence, 5th November, 1840. |