• Tasso, Gerusalemme , XIII 60, Fairfax’s Tr. :⁠— “He that the gliding rivers erst had seen Adown their verdant channels gently rolled, Or filling streams, which to the valleys green, Distilled from tops of Alpine mountains cold, Those he desired in vain, new torments been Augmented thus with wish of comforts old; Those waters cool he drank in vain conceit, Which more increased his thirst, increased his heat.” ↩
• The upper valley of the Arno is in the province of Cassentino. Quoting these three lines. Ampère, Voyage Dantesque , 246, says:⁠— “In these untranslatable verses, there is a feeling of humid freshness, which almost makes one shudder. I owe it to truth to say, that the Cassentine was a great deal less fresh and less verdant in reality than in the poetry of Dante, and that in the midst of the aridity which surrounded me, this poetry, by its very perfection, made one feel something of the punishment of Master Adam.” ↩