In character and physical qualities Torquato inherited no little from his father.

Bernardo was handsome, well-grown, conscious of his double dignity as a nobleman and poet.

From the rules of honor, as he understood them, he deviated in no important point of conduct.

Yet the life of courts made him an incorrigible dangler after princely favors.

The _Amadigi_, upon which he set such store, was first planned and dedicated to Charles V., then altered to suit Henri II.