...ieri,—two columns fit to sustain the mightiest pressure! I was not aware till I read the latter that such a mind had shone upon our times; the finding him out seems like getting near Homer or Shakspeare . And Manzoni still lives! All his writings are full of the most fervent morality, and the Promessi Sposi will do the preaching of myriads of sermons. Botta writes with the heart of a Roman of t...