note 34.] [Footnote 25: Guarino, in a sonnet, hinted at the second supposition.
See Rosini's _Saggio sugli Amori_, &c.

vol.xxxiii.of his edition of Tasso, p.

51.] [Footnote 26: _Lettere_, vol.iii.p.

xxxi.] It is obvious that, though Tasso's letters at this period show no signs of a diseased mind, his conduct began to strike outsiders as insane.
Francesco de'Medici used the plain words _matto_ and _pazzo_.

The courtiers of Ferrara, some in pity, some in derision, muttered 'Madman,' when he passed.