Excerpt from Tasso and His Times B were four, who had met at Ferrara. For two of us the dull city was the Mecca of our pilgrimage; We were deep in the sad story of Tasso and the study of the century in which he lived. And there came two artists to our inn, of whom one was an amateur, a Harvard man, and the other was a professional painter, a cosmopolitan, Parisian bred. The latter was painting the quaint old colonnades of Via San Romano the American was busy making many sketches; now trying to catch the sunbeams that play on the columns of Casa Romei, now dipping his brush in sepia to record the sombre shadows of Via Delle Votte. 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.