Re: "Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori." Leofranc Holford-Strevens writes: >Neither have I found it yet, but what classical author writes 'sicque'?
Good point. This suggests (and, sorry, I should have mentioned it) that the line may be from a neo-Latin poem. The quotation concludes the Life of Ariosto which is part of the endmatter of Harington's translation of Orlando furioso (1591). This English life is adapted from three 16th-cent. Italian lives by Fornari, Pigna, and Garofalo: the quotation may possibly (or possibly not) be taken from one of them, but I don't have access to any of them at present. Fornari's life was first published in the first volume (1549) of his _Spositione_, and reprinted in the Valvassori editions of OF; Pigna's was first published in his _I romanzi_ (1554) and reprinted in the Valgrisi and Franceschi editions of OF; and Garofalo's was first published with Pigna's in the Franceschi edition. I have been reading an extremely interesting article about how Harington's own hopes of a career combining writing with modest public office may be inferred, inter alia, from the discrepancies between his own account of Ariosto's life and the accounts given in the three Italian sources he is known to have used. See Jason Scott-Warren, "Sir John Harington's 'Life of Ariosto' and the Textual Economy of the Elizabethan Court", Reformation, 3 (1998), 259-301 (esp. p. 263). Simon Cauchi, Freelance Editor and Indexer, Hamilton, New Zealand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
