Lives of the Italian poets

Henry Stebbing

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ITALIA-ESPANA
EX-LIBRIS
M. A. BUCHANAN^LIVES
THE ITALIA?TTOETS.
THEBY
REV. HENRY STEERING,
M. H.S.I..M.A.
WITH TWENTY MEDALLION PORTRAITS.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
EDWARD 1IOLLES STREET.BULL,
1831.PREFACE.
IT had been a favourite idea with melong
the thatbefore thework,commencing present
Lives of the Italian Poets offered a on
subject
which the of the be em-pen biographer might
with the The men
ployed greatest advantage.
whose fortunes he would have to describe, ap-
to withinvested singularpeared my imagination
and of them lived indignity splendour. Many
times when conferred itsgenius upon possessors
rank and as fame others had toinfluence well as ;
vicissitudes with which it ispass through always
instructive and to see the human mind
animating
and and all ofvirtuously successfully struggling;
them had a and forenthusiastic venerationdeep
their which renders their career of theart, worthy
\ 3IV PREFACE.
constant observation and imitation of men ofliterary
It was in this thatother and countries.ages light
first itself to me as abound-the subject presented
inin of the interest nor is it a;ing topics highest
of view less of at-point deservingpurely literary
tention. was the cradle of modernItaly learning,
and to her we owe in measure its
poets great pre-
the of Princessent diffusionamong people Europe.
have fostered men of but it isoccasionally learning,
the have andwhilewho itself;poets learning
the lives of these men are left unstudied,great
one of the most useful and valuablewe closedkeep
volumes in the of the human mind. Inhistory
addition to these there is oneconsiderations, pe-
to readers. The Italian
culiarly applicable English
Muse held commerce with our andown,early
of theher some sweetest of hertaught mysteries
and in the several of our mostart; present day
havewriters themselves well em-elegant thought
in their anployed giving countrymen opportunity
of the noble sentiments and brilliant in-
enjoying
ventions of Italian in their owngenius language.