102/147 If we may trust Manso, Leonora herself wrote urgently insisting upon his return.[34] Yet in his own letters Tasso says that he addressed apologies to the duke and both princesses. Leonora replied coldly that she could not help him.[35] [Footnote 34: Manso, _ib._ p. 147.] [Footnote 35: _Lettere_, vol.i.p. 275.] Anyhow, Ferrara drew him back. It is of some importance here to understand Tasso's own feeling for the duke, his master. |