The poems of the Spanish author, Francisco de Rioja, who lived in the
first half of the seventeenth century, are few in number, but much
esteemed. His ode on the Ruins of Italica is one of the most admired of
these, but in the only collection of his poems which I have seen, it is
said that the concluding stanza, in the original copy, was deemed so
little worthy of the rest that it was purposely omitted in the
publication. Italica was a city founded by the Romans in the south of
Spain, the remains of which are still an object of interest.
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