 This was Battista Guarini; and Tasso, in his cell, had to allow odes and sonnets, poems of personal feeling, occasional pieces of compliment, to be collected and emended, without lifting a voice in the matter.A few years later, in 1585, two Florentine pedants of the Crusca Academy declared war against the "Gerusalemme".They loaded it with insults, which seem to those who read their pamphlets now mere parodies of criticism.