Note 160 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Nicolò was a descendant of the princely house of Correggio. He married Cassandra, daughter of Bartolommeo Colleoni. His Cefalo was a mixed composition resembling the Sacre Rappresentazioni in structure. In the Prologue he says:
Requiret autem nullus hic Comœdiæ Leges ut observentur, aut Tragœdiæ; Agenda nempe est historia, non fabula.
See D'Ancona, op. cit. vol. 2, pp. 143-146, 155.