_Numpholeptos_, for instance, an imaginative poem, full too of refined and fanciful emotion, is curiously wanting in intellectual foundation.
The _Numpholeptos_ is in the volume entitled _Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in Distemper_.

Part of the poems in it are humorous, such as _Pacchiarotto_ and _Filippo Baldinucci_, excellent pieces of agreeable wit, containing excellent advice concerning life.

One reads them, is amused by them, and rarely desires to read them again.

In the same volume there are some severe pieces, sharply ridiculing his critics.

In the old days, when he wrote fine imaginative poetry, out of his heart and brain working together, he did not mind what the critics said, and only flashed a scoff or two at them in his creation of Naddo in _Sordello_.