Shelley translated the Homeric Hymns into English in ottava rima. The ottava rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters. The poem is written in ottava rima (oitava rima in Portuguese). William Browne's "Britannia's Pastorals "also contains passages in ottava rima. Latium shares the ottava rima folk tradition with nearby Tuscany and Abruzzo. In English, ottava rima first appeared in Elizabethan translations of Tasso and Ariosto. In the epoch of Baroque Giambattista Marino employed ottava rima in "Adone" (1623). He also used sophisticated strophes, for instance ottava rima. Many classic works were translated into ottava rima. Poems written in ottava rima are usually translated into Polish in the same form. "La Sfera" was written in ottava rima, a construction of stanzas of eight. Pushkin's poem opens with a lengthy tongue-in-cheek discussion of the merits of ottava rima. The poem "Morgante" is composed of 28 "cantari" (chapters) written in ottava rima. Part three is composed of 53 ottava rimas. Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin.