Meanwhile, he imported his movables from Venice, hired a suite of rooms in the Guiccioli palace, executed his marvellously close translation of Pulci's Morgante Maggiore, wrote his version of the story of Francesca of Rimini, and received visits from his old friend Bankes and from Sir Humphrey Davy.

Byron's choice of this measure may have been suggested by Whistlecraft; but, he had studied its cadence in Pulci, and the Novelle Galanti of Casti, to whom he is indebted for other features of his satire; and he added to what has been well termed its characteristic jauntiness, by his almost constant use of the double rhyme.

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The stories are selected from the five principal narrative poets, Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso; they comprise the most popular of such as are fit for translation; are reduced into one continuous narrative, when diffused and interrupted, as in the instances of those of Angelica, and Armida; are accompanied with critical and explanatory notes; and, in the case of Dante, consist of an abstract of the poet's whole work.

The stories from goodnatured Pulci I have been obliged to compress for other reasonschiefly their excessive diffuseness.

Heaven PULCI.

Columbus's discovery, as the reader will see, was anticipated by Pulci.]

] PULCI: Critical Notice of PULCI'S LIFE AND GENIUS.

] PULCI: Critical Notice of PULCI'S LIFE AND GENIUS.

Pulci, who is the first genuine romantic poet, in point of time, after Dante, seems, at first sight, in the juxtaposition, like farce after tragedy; and indeed, in many parts of his poem, he is not only what he seems, but follows his saturnine countryman with a peculiar propriety of contrast, much of his liveliest banter being directed against the absurdities of Dante's theology.

Luigi Pulci, son of Jacopo Pulci and Brigida de' Bardi, was of a noble family, so ancient as to be supposed to have come from France into Tuscany with his hero Charlemagne.

Luigi Pulci, son of Jacopo Pulci and Brigida de' Bardi, was of a noble family, so ancient as to be supposed to have come from France into Tuscany with his hero Charlemagne.

It is not improbable that, during the eclipse of the fortunes of the Medici family, after the death of Lorenzo, Pulci may have partaken of its troubles; and there is certainly no knowing how badly his or their enemies may have treated him; but miserable ends are a favourite allegation with theological opponents.

Pulci appears to have been slender in person, with small eyes and a ruddy face.

The intercourse between Lorenzo and Pulci was of the most familiar kind.

Pulci was sixteen years older, but of a nature which makes no such differences felt between associates.

" "And where's Luigi Pulci?

" In a letter written to Lorenzo, when the future statesman, then in his seventeenth year, was making himself personally acquainted with the courts of Italy, Pulci speaks of himself as struggling hard to keep down the poetic propensity in his friend's absence.

'Pulci, pulci.'

'Pulci, pulci.'

Well, I will pit any two pulci of Porto Rico against any ten you can bring from Italy, and I should be sure to see them bite the dust before the bites of our Porto Rico breed.

He learned Italian in order to read the romancersAriosto, Tasso, Pulci, and Boiardopreferring them to Dante.

I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian."

There exists a poem by Luca Pulci on the story of Polyphemus and Galatea in the form of an eclogue.

La Beca is ascribed by mistake to Luca Pulci in the first edition of Symonds' Renaissance.