... rest of his successful contemporaries, and extremely frank in suffering it to be seen. He is full of anecdote, and talked about Mad. de Stael and Schlegel at the time they were here in 1815-16, of Manzoni , and of himself. He seems extremely well pleased that the Monaca di Monza has gone through eighteen editions, and declares that he is no imitator of Manzoni or anybody else; for that in 1808 he had...