The Duke of Savoy, Carlo Emanuele, offered him the same appointments as he had enjoyed at Ferrara.

Nothing, however, would content his morbid spirit.

Flattered and caressed through the months of October and November he began once more in December to hanker after his old home.

Inconceivable as it may seem, he opened fresh negotiations with the duke; and Alfonso, on his side, already showed a will to take him back.

Writing to his sister from Pesaro at the end of September, Tasso stay that a gentleman had been sent from Ferrara expressly to recall him.[45] The fact seems to be that Tasso was too illustrious to be neglected by the House of Este.