Note 83 — Chapter V
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Sanzi exults over the cowardly confederates in a triplet, whose sound ingeniously echoes the sense:—
"Cum pompa excelsa, al suon di molte trombe, Empiendo l'aria d'alte voci humane Par che ogni valle del remor ribombe."
The ruin occasioned by this campaign is supposed to have overtaken the poet's family, and to have induced them to exchange their roof-tree at Colbordolo for the more secure shelter of Urbino, where Raffaele was born.