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All the quotations in this chapter are from Muratori's life. See note supra p. 1. LIFE OF CASTELVETRO 3 a man of some influence. From the secretaryship to Alfonso I, Duke of Ferrara, he passed by the consent of his master into the service of the Duke of Urbino, who had need of a capable man to undertake an embassy to Rome ; and later, as a reward for the success of this undertaking, he was made Count Hereditary. With such influence behind him, Castelvetro could hope for ' ' illustrious advancements of fortune in that Queen of Courts": but the life of affairs in LIFE OF CASTELVETRO 9 his Poetica d'Aristotele, which thus appeared first in 1570, dedicated to its author's new protector, Maximilian. Soon, however, misfortunes returned-Vienna was plague-smitten, and Castelvetro had to return to Chiavenna, where he proposed to winter before proceeding to Basle. But death forestalled him on the 21st of February 1 57 1. "So in the sixty-sixth year of his age, Lodovico Castelvetro ceased to live, and wrote finished to the Iliad of his disasters, a humanist of the acutest mind and of rare knowledge. Philosopher and Critic of great reputation, one whose life was spent in rough times, worthy though he assuredly was of better fortunes." CHAPTER I. Renaissance Criticism. 1. Naugerius, p. 352.
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