He showed Monsignor Cesi that he had a poor opinion of his literary judgment, came into collision with the pedants who despised Italian, and finally uttered satiric epigrams in writing on various members of the university.

Other students indulged their humor in like pasquinades.

But those of Tasso were biting, and he had not contrived to render himself generally popular.

His rooms were ransacked, his papers searched; and finding himself threatened with a prosecution for libel, he took flight to Modena.

No importance can be attached to this insignificant affair, except in so far as it illustrates the unlucky aptitude for making enemies by want of _savoir vivre_ which pursued Tasso through life.