Tasso and his brothers Kakko, Radoals, and Grimoald, while reining over the Lombard Duchy of Friuli, rule over the Slavs of the valley of the Gail River up to Matrei and impose a tribute upon them.
"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"
