Note 59 — THE HOMES AND HAUNTS OF THE ITALIAN POETS.
Reading edition
It is very doubtful and very difficult to determine at what period of his life the "Pastor Fido" was written. Ginguené (Hist. Ital. Lit. Part II. ch. xxv.) has sufficiently shown that the statements of the Italian biographers on this point are inaccurate. Probably it was planned and, in part, written many years before it was finished. It was first printed in 1590.