Excerpt from Lives of the Italian Poets, Vol. 3 of 3 This celebrated man was born at Sorrento on the 11th of March 1544, and shortly after his father had taken his departure to join the army of the Emperor, in which his patron the Prince of Salerno had the command of the Italian infantry. Before his departure, heohad left directions that should the infant with which Portia was pregnant prove a son, he was to be borne to the font by his most intimate friend, Don Ernando del Torres, a noble man in every way worthy of his esteem, both from the excellence of his character and his elegant' taste for literature. As soon as that gentleman received intelligence of the birth of a son to Bernardo, he hastened from Naples to Sorrento, and as sponsor bestowed upon the favoured infant the name he was destined to render so celebrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.