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forts, in the same pursuits of which Folgore treats, are

imagined for the prodigals; each sonnet, too, being composed

with the same terminations in its rhymes as the correspond-

ing one among his. They would seem to have been written

after the ruin of the club, as a satirical prophecy of the year

to succeed the golden one. But this second series, though

sometimes laughable, not having the poetical

merit of the first, I have not included it.

My translations of Folgore's sonnets were made from the

versions given in the forlorn Florentine collection of 1816,

where editorial incompetence walks naked and not ashamed,

indulging indeed in gambols as of Punch, and words which

no voice but his could utter. Not till my book was in the

printer's hands, did I meet with Nannucci's Manuale del Primo

Secolo (1843), and am sorry that it is too late to avail myself

of lights cast here and there by him on dark passages through

which I had groped as I could. Nor is it only in these son-

nets that his suggestions might have done me serivce, though

fortunately the instances are never of much importance.