instead of Carmina Laiades, &c.  as it has been since corrected.
Lombardi refers to Pansanias, where "the Nymphs" are spoken of as
expounders of oracles for a vindication of the poet's accuracy.
Should the reader blame me for not departing from the error of
the original (if error it be), he may substitute 

Events shall be the Oedipus will solve, &c. 

v.  67.  Elsa's numbing waters.] The Elsa, a little stream, which
flows into the Arno about twenty miles below Florence, is said to
possess a petrifying quality. 

v.  78.  That one brings home his staff inwreath'd with palm.]
"For the same cause that the pilgrim, returning from Palestine,
brings home his staff, or bourdon, bound with palm," that is, to
show where he has been. 

Che si reca 'I bordon di palma cinto. 

"In regard to the word bourdon, why it has been applied to a