Note 602 — Chapter VIII
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He penned the following couplet in 1503, when it is to be hoped he had yet not learned to know his master's real qualities:
Quis patre invicto gerit Hercule fortius arma, Mystica quis casto castius Hippolyto?
In another epigram, written on the death of the Cardinal, he pretends that Ippolito, hearing of Alfonso's illness, vowed his own life for his brother's and was accepted. See Opere Minori, i. 349.