News from Parnassus: Second Century

OF THE REPORTS.

signor Dino da Mugello, Auditor of the Chamber in Parnassus, petitions that the Lords Reformers, because of the too-noisy trade they always exercise, move from his neighborhood. In his request, he is not heard. Report XVI. page 113

Tacitus having been excluded from the house of several of the most famous Liberties of Europe, he complains gravely of it to Apollo. By those Most Serene Ladies, with much reputation to himself, he is received and welcomed once again. Report XVII. page 116

The Cieco da Forlì The Blind Man of Forlì, a famous Italian Cantinbanco street performer or charlatan, having been admitted into Parnassus by Apollo to the wonder of the entire Senate of learned men, is employed by His Majesty in an important task. Report XVIII. page 119

Luigi Alemanni, having recounted the praises of the French nation with a most elegant oration, and later finding himself repentant of that action, asks Apollo for permission to be able to sing a Palinodia a poem retracting a former one, and is rejected by His Majesty. Report XIX. page 124

Corbulo having finished the time of his government of Pindus with much reputation, a renewal for another year is favoringly sent to him by Apollo, which is refused by him. Report XX. page 127

The Most Serene Prince of the Venetian Republic, Sebastiano Venieri, after his entry into Parnassus, petitions Apollo to precede all kings and hereditary monarchs, and receives a favorable decree from His Majesty. Report XXI. page 129

Apollo, greatly moved to pity at seeing a miserable soldier who had lost both hands in an action of war going about begging, sharply reproves princes for the ingratitude shown toward military men. Report XXII. page 134

Apollo, greatly pitying the lamentable shipwrecks that his learned men suffer in the courts of great princes, in order to secure their navigation, commands some of the most signal men of letters of his state to try to form a map for sailing by land. Report XXIII. page 135