103.

The significance of this message to Panigarola is doubtful.

Did Tasso mean that the contrast between past and present was too bitter?
'Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.'] [Footnote 56: All the letters written from Mantua abound in references to this neglect of duty.] The rest of Tasso's life was an Odyssey of nine years.

He seemed at first contented with Mantua, wrote dialogues, completed the tragedy of _Torrismondo_ and edited his father's _Floridante_.

But when Vincenzo Gonzaga succeeded to the dukedom, the restless poet felt himself neglected.