1810.] 
# poetical address to his benefactor gives 
a long account of his fancied flight 
through the regions of the universe, and 
evento the shades below. He was be- 
loved and respected at Florence; and 
Polentinus informs us that he some tume 
filled an ofiice of honour and authority, 
as a magistrate in that city. ; 
The family of the Carrari having at 
length usurped the government of Padua, 
he'received an order while he was on his 
return home, not.to approach within a 
certain distance of the city. Phis hap- 
pened perhaps about the year 1525, as 
we find him, in 1828, complaining that 
during nearly forty months he had been 
left in exile, stript of all his honours and 
his furtune, When Padua, in 1828, had 
opened its gates to Canis della Scala, 
Mussato flattered himself with the hope 
of being permitted to close a life which 
had been umiormly devoted .to the service 
of his native city, within its beloved and 
regretted walls; and he even ventured 
to return, But the venerable patriot’s 
fond lopes were disappointed; he was 
yemanded to the place of his exile, 
Chiozza, and forbidden ever to return. 
He devoted the short remainder of his 
lifé to literary pursuits and the revision. 
of his historical works, and though he 
sometimes wished, as he pathetically 
tells us, to enjoy the fate of him who is 
permitted, 
Propria canos effundere terra, 
Et veteres calcaré Lares, et sacra Penatum 
Visere, que venetrai thalamis servavit avitis, 
Hisque magis, quorum gelidus tardante se- 
nectus 
Sanguis hevet frigentque effete in corpore 
vires : 
Illis dulce mori caris astantibus, altos 
Pone thoros voces imas audire gementim, 
Queis post fata datum est-adolentia corpora 
membris 
Mausoleis patrum veterum componere bus- 
tis, &c. Re 
Thrice blest! amid his natal soil to shed 
The silvery honours of his hoary head; 
Whose favourd foctsteps, uncondemn’d to 
, roam, 
Press the lov’d precincts of his native 
Affection’s pious offices assuage 
For him theevils of declining age ; 
And in the fatal hour his pillow’d head 
Support, and Sympathy’s sweet sorrows shed ; 
Hang o’er his dying form, and at life’s close 
Give in his fathers’ tomb his ashes to re- 
posc— 
home: 
_ Yet the» recollection of his integrity, 
Phe cousciousness ef having upon every 
Memow's of Aibertinus Mussatus. 
oceaston consulted the good of his 
country, he adds, the favour of Minera 
va, enabled him to support with fortitude 
his severe and.unmerited fate. 
Et subeo exilii magno moderamine penas.. 
Tune me, nulla mover patric telluris imagay ¥ 
Wel cognatorum series, miserabile vulgus 
Desertum avxiliis, conjux carissima, nec me 
Pertzsum magni incepti, rerumque mearum 4 
Sed quo fata trahent, inquem, retrahentque 
sequemur, . wr 
Sic fors omme datum est, forsan sic postulat 
ordo .” ’ Ss a 
Fatorum.  Sxperanda omnis fortuna ferendo este 
Mussato died in exile,* June 1329, 
at an advanced age, His remains were 
some time afterwards removed to Padua. 
The prose works of Mussatus consist 
of sixteen books De Gestis Ienrici vit, 
Imperatoris; twelve Books De Gestis Ita- 
licorum, post Hienricum vii.,, Casarem, 
{of these last, however, three are in hex- 
ameter verse; and De Ludovici Bavari 
Gestis Liber. He wrote also De Naturd 
et Fortana, De Casibus Fortune, De 
Vira et Moribus suis Librom Singulums 
but this last remains inedited, » OF his 
poetry we have two Latin. tragediess 
1. Ecerrinis, on the fate of ‘Ecerinus, 
a tyrant of Verona; 2. Achilleis:: both 
written on the plan of the Greek drama, 
and in imitation of Seneca, and the ear-. 
liest specimens in this kind of compos 
sition in the interesting -period of the re«} 
vival of letters. Also xviii. Epistola, 
or Sermones in elegiac measure; x. Lié~ 
gies, Soliloquia Sacra, and various othe 
poems on different subjects, His Ovidian 
Cento is taken from the Tristia only of 
Ovid. Among his inedited poems are 
mentioned his Priapeia, suppressed by 
the pradence of the editors of his works? 
SERENE ee a 
* J.C. Walker, esq. in his very interesting 
© Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy,” 
(not seen’by me until sometime after this 
account of Mussatus was written) apud initinm, 
observes, ** Chiozza, the place ot Mussato’s 
‘banishment, is a little city which lies three 
miles from Brondolo, and thirteen from Vee 
nice, and is allowed by De la Lalande to be 
‘ assez agréable.”” The cathedral is a beauti- 
ful edifice, and commodious porticos extend 
along each side of the principal streets. 
Here, while the venerable patriot beguiled his 
time in revising his historical works, fancy 
may suppose him occasionally turning a tearful - 
eye to his native Padua, or extending his view 
over that city to the towering boundary of phe 
Alps, and Josing himself, ic imagination, 
among the rocks and forests, the snows and 
torreilisy of those majestic mountains.” 
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