La Secchia Rapita: The Rape of the Bucket; Volume I

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Excerpt from La Secchia Rapita, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, the Rape of the Bucket In the beginning of 1597 he went to Rome, and was employed by the Cardinal Ascanio Colonna, with whom in 1600 he proceeded to Spain, in a diplomatic capacity. About this time he wrote his celebrated ssiderazioni 30pm le Rime (lel Petrarca, in which he is said to have omitted nothing that had any ten dency to depreciate, and turn into ridicule the Flo rentine bard. Cardinal Colonna died in 1608, which deprived Tassoni of employment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.