It is also far more likely that the Leonora episode passed in his mind for another proof of mental infirmity than that he judged it seriously.

It was quite enough that Tasso had put himself in the wrong by petulant abuse of his benefactor and by persistent fretfulness.

Moreover, he was plainly brain-sick.

That alone justified Alfonso in his own eyes.
[Footnote 48: _Lettere_, vol.ii.

34.] [Footnote 49: _Ibid._ pp.