56).

'Io non posso acquetarmi in altra fortuna di quella ne la quale gia nacqui' (_Ibid._ p.

243).] [Footnote 43: It is addressed to the Metaurus, and begins: 'O del grand, Apennino.'] Francesco Maria della Rovere received him with accustomed kindness; but the spirit of unrest drove him forth again, and after two months we find him once more, an indigent and homeless pedestrian, upon the banks of the Sesia.

He wanted to reach Vercelli, but the river was in flood, and he owed a night's lodging to the chance courtesy of a young nobleman.
Among the many picturesque episodes in Tasso's wanderings none is more idyllically beautiful than the tale of his meeting with this handsome youth.

He has told it himself in the exordium to his Dialogue _Il Padre di Famiglia_.