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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
ays found in respectable Italian families, as a tutor and religious director. To this party was added to-day, to meet us, Baron Trechi, . . . . who some time since expiated the sin of having more than common talent and liberal views of politics, by a fifteen-months' confinement in an Austrian prison. The whole was pleasant, but the person who most interested me was Manzoni himself, who must, I suppose, be now admitted to be the most successful author Italy has produced since the days of Alfieri, and who has, besides, the merit of being a truly excellent and respectable man. He is now fifty-one years old, for, as he told me to-day, he was born in 1785, and he has been known as an author since he published his Inni sacri, in 1816 . . . . . But no degree of success encourages him to write much. He has a sensitive, retiring spirit, and what he has achieved amidst almost unbroken applause is said to be no compensation to himself for the occasional murmurs of critical censure that reac
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
ing, I was offered for lodging-rooms the very suite of apartments in her palazzo over that in which I used to visit her; the very suite, too, that was occupied by Alfieri, and where I passed a forenoon once in looking over his library and manuscripts. Au reste, she has not left any odor of sanctity behind her among the Florentinest, hoc proetexit nomine culpam,— and when she died she left him all her property; so the Palazzo Alfieri, as it is called, is turned into a lodging-house, and all Alfieri's books and manuscripts are carried off to the South of France, except a duplicate copy of his Tragedies, which Monsieur Fabre gave to the Laurentian Library. This annoys the Italians, and so much the more, because Alfieri, not in legal, but in poetical form, by a sonnet, had signified his wish that his library should be deposited in his native city of Asti; and I remember Tassi, who was his private secretary, told me, when he showed me the books, that at Mad. d'albany's death they would g
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
many more striking facts: such as, that he does not like to be in any sort of solitude, not even to go alone to say his prayers in church; that he makes no visits, because he does not know whom he may meet, etc. Yet with all this he has a high and even bold sense of duty, and not a little moral courage, maintaining his liberal opinions on all occasions with frankness. His popularity as a writer is extraordinary. Nothing like it has been known in Italy for a century; nor has any man since Alfieri produced so striking an effect on the popular feeling. Traces of the Promessi Sposi are found everywhere, from the Pitti Palace where the Grand Duke is having a room painted in fresco with designs from it—to the chintz on the sofas and chairs in the taverns, which are often covered with its story. Of the editions of it there seems to be no end. Meantime, he himself loses nothing either of the simplicity or shyness of his character; and the timidity, which seems to be based in a sort of p
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
in his own hand. Twenty years ago I remember being shown, at Ferrara, the original manuscript of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and the old librarian pointed out to me, at the bottom of a blotted page, these words, with a date, all in pencil, Vittorio Alfieri vide e venero, adding that when Alfieri wrote them, his tears fell so fast that they dropped on the paper and blistered it. It was impossible to avoid having something of the same feeling when looking at these venerable remains of two of theAlfieri wrote them, his tears fell so fast that they dropped on the paper and blistered it. It was impossible to avoid having something of the same feeling when looking at these venerable remains of two of the greatest men, in the opposite departments of science and poetry, that the world has ever seen . . . . There was one thing, however, that Professor Smyth was anxious to show us, and we went, of course, to see it. It is an original portrait of Cromwell, kept in the apartments of the Master of Sydney College. It is in colored chalks, beyond all doubt done from the life, and done, too, after anxiety had made deep lines of care in his face. Smyth will have it that it justifies and illustrates
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
49, 150. Alberi, Professor, Eugenio, II. 315. Albert, Prince, Consort, II. 429. Alberti, Count, Tasso Mss., II. 52, 53, 78, 79 and note. Aldobrandini, Princess, I. 256 and note. See Borghese, Princess. Alertz, Dr., II. 85. Alfieri, Marquis, II. 42. Alfieri, Vittorio, I. 184, II. 67; anecdote of, 158. Alhambra, I. 230, 281, 232 and note. Alison, Dr., I. 427, II. 164, 175. Alison, Miss, II. 164 Alison, Mrs., I. 426-427, II. 164, 175. Alison, Rev., Dr, I. 280, 4Alfieri, Vittorio, I. 184, II. 67; anecdote of, 158. Alhambra, I. 230, 281, 232 and note. Alison, Dr., I. 427, II. 164, 175. Alison, Miss, II. 164 Alison, Mrs., I. 426-427, II. 164, 175. Alison, Rev., Dr, I. 280, 414 Allen, John, I. 265, 408, II. 149, 150, 176. Allen, Miss, II. 77. Allston, Washington, I. 316 and note, 388, II. 76, 196, 269. Almack's, I. 296, 412, 413. Alps, Austrian and Bavarian, II. 27-34; Swiss, 34; Tyrolese, etc., 99. Althorp, visits, II. 170-173. Alvin, M., II. 312. Amberley, Viscount and Viscountess, II. 482. American Institute, G. T. lectures before, I. 393. Amiens, Bishop of, I. 254. Amory, William, II. 445 note. Ampere, J. J., II. 343 and note,