AGNES, PRINCESSE DE BOURGOGNE. ΙΟΙ This Romance relates the amours of Agnes Princess of Burgundy, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, who was one of the great fomenters of the quarrels in the Reign of the unfortunate Charles 6.th with the Count of Clermont the son of the Duke of Bourbon. The Count met the Princess in his flight from Dijon when the contests ran high; he was afterwards introduced in disguise at the Court of the Duke her father, who gave him high employments, tho he considered him only as a Chevalier from one of the Provinces. The Count here had frequent opportunities of renewing his love with the Princess, which after a short time was cruelly interrupted by the Duke of Clarence, who sought refuge at this Court when banished his own Country: (he must have been the son of Edward the third of England.) The Duke of Clarence aspired to the hand of Agnes, and invented a tale of her falsehood to her lover, which so imposed upon him that he renounced her, though the Duke, her father, had consented to their Union. The Duke was so enraged at his Daughters supposed misconduct that he shut her up and reported her death, upon which the Duke of Clarence confessed his perfidy; and the marriage took place with the Count of Clermont now become Duke of Bourbon. This Union terminated the disaffection of the house of Burgundy to the interests of the Dauphin afterwards Charles the Seventh. The history of these lovers was written at that time but it was only discovered a short time since in an old Castle in Auvergne which belonged for sometime to the Dukes of Bourbon. ART. IX. TULLIA D'ARAGONA. Rime della Sig. Tullia d'Aragona di nuovo date in luce da Antonio Bulifon, e dedicate All' Illustrissima Signora D. Isabella Mastrilli, unica figliuola dell' Eccellentiss. Signor Duca di Marigliano, etc. In Napoli, presso Antonio Bulifon. M. DC. XCII. 12.° pp. 76. with Ded." α SONETTO QUAL vaga Filomena: che fuggita E' da la odiata gabbia, et in superba Er' io da gli amorosi lacci uscita Schernendo ogni martire, et pena acerba De l'incredibil duol, che in se riserba Qual ha per troppo amar l'alına smarrita. Ben havev' io ritolte (ahi Stella fera). Del tempio di Ciprigna le mie spoglie, E di lor pregio me n'andava altera: Quand' a me Amor, le tue ritrose voglie Muterò, disse, et femmi prigioniera Di tua virtù, per rinovar mie doglic. » (1) (1) P. 15. SONETTO. DIVE, che dal bel monte d'Helicona Fra queste rive, onde è che d'ogn' intorno Il gran nome Thoscan più altero sona; D'eterni fior tessete una corona A lui, che di virtù fa 'l mondo adorno Per cui l'antico vitio n'abbandona. Che solo è da voi sole, et non d'altrui, TULLIA D'ARAGONA flourished about 1550. (1) P. 4. |