On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Simon Cauchi wrote: > 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
Just a thought-- do you suppose it (the "pentameter" line in question) might be by Ariosto himself? He wrote a fair amount of Latin verse, including elegies. JMP ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
