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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
zoni. Grand Duke. Micali. Alberti manuscripts of Tasso. Gino Capponi. Italian society. Rome. Bunsen. ired, modest man, remarkable chiefly for his love of Tasso, and for his collection of books relative to Tasso, Tasso, which, in fact, induced me to visit him. It is a very remarkable collection, comprising every edition of the pobeen well known, contained at one time a quantity of Tasso's manuscripts, and when Foppa published, in 1666, his collection of Tasso's Inedita, he intimated in his preface that he had not published the whole contained in t therefore, as he says, sought for this remainder of Tasso's autographs, and found them ten years since, and pu possession of very curious autograph manuscripts of Tasso, which left no doubt that the mutual attachment betws, and other inconsiderable autograph manuscripts of Tasso; that he then, probably, entered into an arrangemently, the manuscripts which seem on all accounts to be Tasso's do not touch the interesting questions of his life
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
than on the reformation of the people. I went, too, to see Count Alberti, who has the famous contested manuscripts of Tasso, and made an appointment with him to come and look them over. He seemed to me to have all his nation's acuteness and dexcurious. The collection is large,—above an hundred pieces, I should think,—and begins with the first note of Eleonora to Tasso, when he sent her his first madrigal, and ends with a sort of testamentary disposition made at St. Onofrio, the day befornts, and the other was the singular way in which they seemed to fit a great number of small circtumstances in the life of Tasso about which there is no doubt. I did not like it, either, that Count Alberti intimated nothing about their questioned aurect. Count Alberti proceeded to publish the manuscripts at Lucca, in 1837, under the title of Manoscritti inediti di Torquato Tasso. So clearly was it proved, however, that they were not genuine, that in 1842, six numbers having appeared, the edi
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
tta had sent us the key to her box . . . . The interest and enjoyment of two delightful days at Como were much increased by the unexpected presence of Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Robinson for a part of the time. At Bergamo, the birthplace of Bernardo Tasso and of Tiraboschi, and the spot whence comes that peculiar Bergamesque dialect which, in the person of Harlequin or Truffaldino, amuses all Italy, another cordial meeting with Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Robinson occurred; but after breakfasting tWe procured four or five gondoliers, who went in one gondola, while we went in others, . . . . and embarking just at dark, rowed down the Grand Canal towards the Lagune. As soon as we were fairly in motion they began to sing. They took at first Tasso, and began in a sort of recitative, and in their soft Venetian dialect, to chant the episode of Armida. . . . . They were themselves much excited by it, and stood up and gesticulated as if they were improvisating. At first it did not produce muc
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
les, I. 416. Alba, Count da, I. 248, 249. Albani, Cardinal, I. 181. Albany, Countess of, I. 183, 184, II. 57. Albemarle, Earl of, II 149, 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 ander, I. 243. Tait, Bishop of London, II. 371, 384. Talfourd, Sir T. N., II. 181. Talleyrand, Prince, L 13, 123, 254, 258-263, II. 35, 113, 114. Talma, I. 126, 127. Tarentum, Archbishop of, I. 174. Tascher de la Pagerie, II. 131. Tasso Mss., forgery of, by Alberti, II. 52, 53, 79 and note. Tastu, Mad. Amable, II. 124, 128, 129. Tatistcheff, Madame de, I. 211. Tatistcheff, M. de, I. 210, 212. Taylor, Abbe, I. 173. Taylor, General, Zachary, President of the United States