...dation, he selected Professor Eugenio Alberi as the agent of the Library, after hearing much good of him from many persons, and among the rest from the Grand Duke and the Marquis Gino Capponi. Thus Mr. Ticknor 's former associations with literary and distinguished persons gave him valuable aid in his present undertakings. In Rome, where he passed the winter, he had no need, of course, to search for agen...