On his release from prison Murtola laid hands upon a satire, _La Cuccagna_, written some time previously by his rival.
This he laid before the duke, as a seditious attack upon the government of Savoy.

Marino now in his turn was imprisoned; but he proved, through the intervention of Manso, that the _Cuccagna_ had been published long before his arrival at Turin.

Disgusted by these incidents, he next accepted an invitation from the French Court, and journeyed to Paris in 1615, where the Italianated society of that city received him like a living Phoebus.

Maria de Medici, as Regent, with Concini for her counselor and lover, was then in all her vulgar glory.

Richelieu's star had not arisen to eclipse Italian intrigue and to form French taste by the Academy.