‘A youthful Pepin there his legions pours
That from Fornaci reach to Juda’s shores[1].’
I will remark with respect to another line in this stanza, that when Ariosto says,
And on Rialto’s shore his battle post,
he does not mean the bridge, mistakenly so called by almost all modern English writers on Italy except Mr. Rogers, but the island which was the first seat of Venetian empire, afterwards transferred to St. Mark’s. To confound Rialto with the bridge of Rialto is (as it has been well remarked) the same thing as to confound Westminster with Westminster-bridge.
Burgundian Lewis ye behold descend.
Stanza xviii. line 1.
“Lewis of Burgundy, making an expedition into Italy, was conquered by the Emperor Berengarius I. and made prisoner, but set at liberty on his taking an oath never more to invade Italy. The Burgundian, afterwards forgetting his oath, renewed hostilities, and being again taken prisoner by Berengarius II. was, as a punishment for his breach of faith, deprived of his sight; and in this condition he returned home.”—H.
You see him named from Aries, victorious Hugh.
Stanza xix. line 1.
“Hugh, count of Aries, called in by the Italians to their assistance against the Berengarii: he succeeded greatly at first, but, being afterwards overpowered, was constrained to ask for peace, and retired to Aries, leaving his son Lothario behind him, who soon after died.”—H.
You see, her goodly pastor to sustain, &c.
Stanza xx.
“Pope Clement IV. invited Charles of Anjou, brother of St. Lewis, king of France, against Manfred, an enemy to the church,
