"In somma ella non ha si del bestiale, Com' altri stima, perche la natura Del poco si contenta, e si prevale," &c. [Jesus.] Sir J. Hawkins, in his "Hist.

Rispose Orlando: Io tiro teco a un seguo, Che l'armi son del'uomo il primo onore; Ma non già che 'l saper faccia un men degno, Anzi l'adorna com' un prato il fiore; Ed è simile a un bove, a un sasso, a un legno, Che non pensa a l'eterno Creatore; Nè ben si puo pensar, senza dottrina, La somma maestade, alta e divina.

'usbergo L'arme sue tutte, in somma vi concludo, Avean pel bosco differente albergo.

Saba has, like most of these islands, its 'Somma' like that of Vesuvius; an outer ring of lava, the product of older eruptions, surrounding a central cone, the product of some newer one.

A single peak, with its Souffriere, rises to some 2000 feet; right and left of it are two lower hills, fragments, apparently, of a Somma, or older and larger crater.

A great part of the afternoon was spent in ascending among the defiles of Monte Somma, the highest pass on the road between Ancona and Rome.

According to the Venetian legend, it was this identical effigy which was taken by the blind old Dandolo, when he besieged and took Constantinople in 1204, and brought in triumph to Venice, where it has ever since been preserved in the church of St. Mark, and held in somma venerazione.

Now, such pictures may be excellently well painted, greatly praised by connoisseurs, and held in "somma venerazione," but they are offensive as regards the religious feeling, and, are, in point of taste, mannered, fantastic, and secular.

To this glowing description of agricultural Italy in the Augustan age may be annexed that of Machiavelli on the state of Tuscany in his youth: "Ridotta tutta in somma pace e tranquillità, coltivata non meno ne' luoghi più montuosi e più sterili che nelle pianure e regioni più fertili...."