They visited Siena, Bologna and Mantua.

At Mantua, Tasso made some halt, and took a new long poem, the _Gerusalemme Conquistata_, seriously in hand.

But the demon of unrest pursued him, and in November 1591 he was off again with the Duke of Mantua to Rome.

From Rome he went to Naples at the beginning of the following year, worked at the _Conquistata_, and began his poem of the _Sette Giornate_.[60] He was always occupied with the vain hope of recovering a portion of his mother's estate.

April saw him once more upon his way to Rome.