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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7), Italian Literature, Part 2

Note 474 — Chapter XIV

Reading edition

In some cases the readings of the second edition are inferior to those of the first, while both fall short of Boiardo. Boiardo wrote in his description of Astolfo (Canto i. 60):

Quel solea dir, ch'egli era per sciagura, E tornava a cader senza paura.

In the rifacimento of 1541 we have:

E alle volte cadeva per sciagura, E si levava poi senza paura.

In that of 1545:

Un sol dispetto avea: dice Turpino Che nel cader alquanto era latino.

I take these instances from Panizzi.

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