This does not, however, appear to have impaired its popularity, or to have injured its author's reputation.

Soon after the appearance of _Adone_, Marino, then past fifty, returned to Naples.

He was desirous of reposing on his laurels, wealthy, honored, and adored, among the scenes from which he fled in danger and disgrace thirty years before.

His entrance into Naples was an ovation.

The Iazzaroni came to meet his coach, dancing and scattering roses; noblemen attended him on horse-back; ladies gazed on him from balconies.