E così spesi la mia fanciullezza, In caccie, in giochi d'arme e in cavalcare; Nè mi par che convenga a gentilezza, Star tutto il giorno ne' libri a pensare; Ma la forza del corpo e la destrezza Conviensi al cavaliero esercitare; Dottrina al prete, ed al dottor sta bene; Io tanto saccio quanto mi conviene.

To him, as Aeschylus sings, Io of old found her way, and from him received monition and knowledge of what should come to pass.

For these wanderers can find rest only in a suffering Saviour, by the vision of whose deeper Passion they lose their sense of grief,as Io on Caucasus in sight of the transfixed Prometheus, and the Madonna at the Cross.

So, to save Io from her, he changed the maiden to a white cow.

She cried out to him and told him to let the cow go; and her face was so full of wrath that, as soon as he saw her, he turned and fled, and left poor Io to her fate.

He will be as dull as Io without her gad-fly.

maniera si è, che io per me stimerei, che non fosse gran fatto disdicevole il credere, che quell' anima o quella virtù,