horess of _Ritratti di Uomini Illustri_ (see _Life_, pp. 331, 413,
etc.); Giuseppe Mezzofanti, 1774-1849, linguist; Angelo Mai (cardinal),
1782-1854, philologist; Andreas Moustoxides, 1787-1860, a Greek
archaeologist, who wrote in Italian; Francesco Aglietti (see _Life_, p.
378, etc.), 1757-1836; Andrea Vacca Berlinghieri, 1772-1826 (see _Life_,
p. 339).

For biographical essays on Monti, Foscolo, and Pindemonte, see "Essay on
the Present Literature of Italy" (Hobhouse's _Historical Illustrations
of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold_, 1818, pp. 347, _sq._). See, too,
_Italian Literature_, by R. Garnett, C.B., LL.D., 1898, pp. 333-337,
337-341, 341-342.]

[369] {325} [Shelley (notes M. Darmesteter), in his preface to the
_Prometheus Unbound_, "emploie le mot sans demander pardon." "The mass
of capabilities remains at every period materially the same; the
circumstances which awaken it to action perpetually change."
"Capability" in the sense of "undeveloped faculty or property; a
condition physical or otherwise, capable of being converted or turned to
use" (_N. Eng. Dict._), appertains rather to material objects. To apply
the term figuratively to the forces inherent in national character
savoured of a literary indecorum. Hence the apology.]

[370] [Addison, _Cato_, act v. sc. 1, line 3--

"It must be so--_Plato_, thou reason'st well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?"]

[371] [Shelley chose this refrain as the motto to his unfinished lines
addressed to his infant son--

"My lost William, thou in whom
Some bright spirit lived----"]

[372] [Scott commented severely on this opprobrious designation of "the
great and glorious victory of Waterloo," in his critique on the Fourth
Canto, _Q. R._, No. xxxvii., April, 1818.]

[373] {326} [_The substance of some letters written by an Englishman
resident in Paris during the last Reign of the Emperor Napoleon_. 1816.
2 vols.]

[374] [In 1817.]

[375] {327}

[Venice and La Mira on the Brenta.
Copied, August, 1817.
Begun, June 26. Finished, July 29th. MS. M.]

[376] [Byron sent the first stanza to Murray, July 1, 1817, "the shaft
of the column as a specimen." Gifford, Frere, and many more to whom
Murray "ventured to show it," expressed their approval (_Memoir of John
Murray_, i. 385).

"'The Bridge of Sighs,'" he explains (i.e. _Ponte de' Sospiri_), "is
that which divides