The streams, the plains and woods know well, he says, how he has tried to escape the perverse and stupid people who have missed the way to heaven: Cercato ho sempre solitaria vita (Le rive il sanno, e le campagne e i boschi) Per fuggir quest' ingegni storti e loschi Che la strada del ciel' hanno smarrita.

He pursues the same strain in that delightful book of his, DeVita Solitaria, which seems to have given Zimmerman the idea of his celebrated work on Solitude.

in monasteries and about churchyards, loca paludinosa, ampla aedificia, solitaria, et caede hominum notata, &c. (marshes, great buildings, solitary places, or remarkable as the scene of some murder.)

Si malum exasperantur, homines odio habent et solitaria petunt.

solitaria Sin inscripción alguna, Donde habite el olvido, Allí estará mi tumba?

eletto ho solitaria vita, Che la turba di questi è infinita.