Orpheus bewailing his fate.
[Figure 43]
[W: I weep not, I am not sighing, tho' thou art from me taken.
What use to sigh]
Orpheus' joy in bringing back Eurydice.
[Figure 44]
[W: Gioi-te al canto mio serve frondo di che in su l'au rora]
[14] It is interesting to note as to the prevalence of Latin,
that Dante's "Divina Commedia" was the first important
poem in Italian. Latin was used on the stage in Italy
up to the sixteenth century; the stationary chorus
stationed on the stage remained until the seventeenth
century and was not entirely discontinued until the
first half of the eighteenth century.