In the palace of the Cardinal Gonzaga there are rooms and beds always ready for his use, and men reserved for his especial service.

Yet he runs away and mistrusts even that friendly lord.

In short, it is a sad misfortune that the present age should be deprived of the greatest genius which has appeared for centuries.

What wise man ever spoke in prose or verse better than this madman ?[57] In the following August, Scipione Gonzaga's servants, unable to endure Tasso's eccentricities, turned him from their master's house, and he took refuge in a monastery of the Olivetan monks.

Soon afterwards he was carried to the hospital of the Bergamasques.