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re in 1800. He died, I think, about 1816. Carmignani readily promised to send me his memoirs and papers to look over, and see what I can find in them . . . . The evening was made pleasant to us by a visit from Rosini, the author of the Monaca di Monza, of Luisa Strozzi, etc.,—a round, easy, good-natured, vain, and very agreeable person, about as old as Carmignani; somewhat jealous, as an author, of the reputation of Manzoni, Grossi, and the 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 made collections for an historical romance on the times of Erasmus, in which Lorenzo dea Medici, and the coterie around him at Florence, were