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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
ess of Comte de Kergorlay, I was accommodated with a seat in one of the tribunes. A member who came to me remarked that nous n'avons pas d'orages. Everything was very quiet. the debate was on a law regulating, courts-martial. Dined with Appleton; in the evening heard Ristori in Camilla, a piece of moderate merit, but very well acted. I did not like it so well as Maria Stuardo. May 6. Breakfasted with Mr. Senior; pleasant company again. Other guests were Tocqueville, Corcelle, Count Arrivabene, and Clives. Drove with Appleton to the review in the Champs de Mars, where were sixty thousand soldiers,—more than I have ever seen before, and more than I shall ever see again; dined at a restaurant, and then went to Theatre Porte St. Martin to see the new play entitled William Shakspeare; but after two acts was so tired I was obliged to get home. May 7. Went to Musee d'artillerie; made several calls. Passed my evening quietly; too tired for society or theatre. May 8. Went to P
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
, 1264. Some, misled by an error in a few of the early manuscript copies of the Divina Commedia, would have him born five years earlier, in 1260. According to Arrivabene, Secolo di Dante, Udine edition of 1828, Vol. III. Part I. p. 578. Sansovino was the first to confirm Boccaccio's statement by the authority of the poet him average age of man having been declared by the Psalmist to be seventy years, and the period of the poet's supposed vision being unequivocally fixed at 1300. Arrivabene, however, is wrong. Boccaccio makes precisely the same reckoning in the first note of his Commentary (Bocc. Comento, etc., Firenze, 1844, Vol. I. pp. 32, 33) an arrangement with Charles of Valois, who was preparing an expedition to Italy. Dante was meanwhile sent on an embassy to Rome (September, 1301, according to Arrivabene, Secolo di Dante, p. 654. He would seem to have been in Rome during the Jubilee of 1300. See Inferno, XVIII. 28-33. but probably earlier) by the Bianchi, wh