Part I
., Chap. XXVI.: _Candid and Martin sup with six Strangers; and who they were._--T.
[216] Chateaubriand wrote the next day to Madame Récamier:
"_Thursday_ 19 _September_ 1833.
"All is changed. _They_ absolutely want me to go to the end of the journey, where _they_ dare not arrive without me. All my resistance was unavailing; I had to resign myself. So I am leaving. This will prolong my absence another month. I am going to send Hyacinthe to Paris; he will bring you a long letter and details. Nothing in my life ever cost me a greater pang than this last sacrifice, unless it be that attached to my resignation of Rome.--B. ]
[217] Pietro Liberi (1605-1687), born and died at Padua, a religious and historical painter of the Venetian School.--T.
[218] Jacopo Palma the Younger (_circa_ 1544-1628), a painter of the Venetian School, distinguished for the freshness of his colouring.--T.
[219] Giacomo Tatti (1479-1570), known as Sansovino, a noted Florentine sculptor and architect, held by some to be second, as a sculptor, to Michael Angelo alone. Sansovino is the architect of the Mint, the Library of St. Mark and the Palazzo Cornaro in Venice.--T.
[220] Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586), son of the above, is better known as a man of letters and grammarian than as an artist.--T.
[221] "For there's no day so fair but its night follows after."--T.
[222] Charles Patin (1633-1693) was a physician, like his father, but was distinguished especially for his antiquarian knowledge. He was sentenced to the galleys for distributing some copies of a lewd libel which he had been charged to suppress and fled from France. Eventually he settled in the Venetian States and, in 1677, was appointed Professor of Medicine at Padua. Charles Patin left several important numismatical works.--T.
[223] Gui Patin (1601-1672), the famous doctor and wit, earned an extraordinary reputation by his caustic sallies and eccentric habits. He was the author of a treatise on the _Conservation de la santé_(1632) and of Letters published nearly fifty years after his death. A collection of his _bons mots_ was published, under the title of Patiniana, in 1703.--T.
[224] Epictetus (_fl._ 1st Century), of Hierapolis, the Stoic philosopher, was born a slave. When his master, Epaphroditus, who subsequently freed him, broke his leg for him, he was content to observe:
"I told you you would break it"
Epictetus was driven from Rome, with the other philosophers, by the Emperor Domitian; he returned later and won the esteem of the Emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius.--T.
[225] John III. King of Portugal (1502-1557) succeeded his father, Emanuel I., in 1521. He established the Inquisition in 1526.--T.
[226] Angelo Malipieri, Podesta of Padua. Two years after the above was written, Victor Hugo produced his tragedy of _Angelo_, of which Malipieri is the hero, at the Théâtre-Français (28 April 1835).--B.
[227] St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), monk of the Order of St. Francis and a native of Lisbon. He was wrecked on the coast of Italy when on his way to Africa to convert the infidels. St. Anthony is said one day to have preached to a school of fishes and to have been heard with attention.--T.
[228] Antonio Beccadelli Panormita (1394-1471), of Palermo, a distinguished man of letters of his day.--T.
[229] Livy, who was born and died at Padua, divided his History of Rome into 425 books, of which only 35 have been preserved. These books were contained in "Decades," or groups of ten books each. The late Benjamin Jowett used to long for the recovery of the missing books of Livy more than for that of any other lost specimens of literature.--T.
[230] Good drink-money or "tips."--T.
[231] Francesco Albani (1578-1660), surnamed the "Painter of the Graces" and the "Anacreon of Painting," the great painter of the Bologna School.--T.
[232] Heliodonis Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly (_fl._ 4th Century), was the author of the earliest Greek romance, the _Æthiopica,_ which relates the loves and adventures of Theagines and Chariclea.--T.
[233] Isotta Nogarola (_d._ 1466), a great and learned lady of Verona, famous for her beauty, her knowledge and her poetic talent. She was the author of the _Dialogus quo utrum Adam vel Eva magis peccaverit, quæstio satis nota, sed non adeo explicata, continetur_ (Florence: 1563).--T.
[234] Francis I. Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, etc. (1768-1835).--T.
[235] The Comte de Sainte-Aulaire (_cf._ Vol. V., p. 161, n. 2) had been appointed Ambassador to Vienna earlier in that same year 1833.--T.
[236] The Duchesse de Berry's mother was Clementina Queen of the Two Sicilies, daughter of Leopold II. Emperor of Germany, and sister of Francis I. Emperor of Austria.--T.
[237] _Cf._ Vol., V., p. 81, n. 5. The Comte de Montbel's _Notice sur le Duc de Reichstadt_ had appeared in that year 1833. The Duke had died at Schonbrünn, three miles from Vienna, the residence of the Austrian Archdukes, on the 22nd of July; the distance is about 180 miles from Vienna to Prague, where Charles X. and his little Court took up their residence.--T.
[238] Leopold I. King of the Belgians (1790-1865) was the youngest son of Francis Duke of Saxe Saalfeld-Coburg when he was elected to the Belgian Throne in 1831. He was married first, in 1816, to Charlotte Princess Royal of England, who died in 1817. In 1832, Leopold married Louise Princesse d'Orléans, daughter of Louis-Philippe.--T.
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