The printers of Modena and Padua refused; Giuliano Cassiani had been sent to prison in 1617 for publishing some verses of Testi against Spain.

The Inquisition withheld its _imprimatur_.

Attempts were made to have it printed on the sly at Padua; but the craftsman who engaged to execute this job was imprisoned.
At last, in 1622, Tassoni contrived to have the poem published in Paris.
The edition soon reached Italy.

In Rome it was prohibited, but freely sold; and at last Gregory XV.

allowed it to be reprinted with some canceled passages.