Note *157 — Chapter L

I shall not attempt to give a bibliography, however scanty, of Ariosto. He has really nothing to do with Urbino, and the work done concerning him would fill a library. The best life after those of Baretti, Campori, and Baruffaldi is that of Cappelli prefacing the Lettere (Hoepli, Milano, 1887). The best edition of his poems is that of Papini (Firenze, Sansoni, 1903). For Bibliographia Ariostesca, see Ferrazzi (Bassano, Pozzato, 1881). For the controversy, Ariosto-Tasso, see Vivaldi, La Più Grande polemica del Cinquecento (Catanzaro, Caliò, 1895). Consult also Edmund Gardner, Dukes and Poets at Ferrara (Constable, 1904), a charming and a learned book.