When that appointment was made, Mr. PANIZZI had already passed almost ten years in England. [Sidenote: MR. PANIZZI’S EARLY CAREER AND HIS LABOURS IN ENGLAND.] The greater part of them had been spent at Liverpool, as a tutor in the language and literature of Italy. Born at Brescello, in the Duchy of Modena, Mr. PANIZZI had been educated at Reggio and at Parma; in the last-named University he had graduated as LL.D. in 1818; and he had practised with distinction as an advocate. Part of his leisure hours had been given to the study of bibliography, and to the acquisition of a library. But he was an ardent aspirant for the liberty of Italy, and, in 1820, narrowly escaped becoming one of its many martyrs. After the unsuccessful rising of that year in Piedmont, he was arrested at Cremona, but escaped from his prison. After his escape he was sentenced to death. He sought a refuge first at Lugano, and afterwards at Geneva. But his ability had made him a marked man. Austrian spies dogged his steps, and appealed, by turns, to the suspicions and to the fears of the local authorities. Presently it seemed clear that England, alone, would afford, to the dreaded ‘conspirator’ for Italy, a secure abode. At Liverpool he acquired the friendship successively of Ugo FOSCOLO, of ROSCOE, and of BROUGHAM. In 1828, he received and accepted the offer of the Professorship of Italian Literature in the then London University, now ‘University College.’ In 1830, he began the publication of his admirable edition of the poems of BOJARDO and ARIOSTO, which was completed in 1834. [Sidenote: _Minutes of Evidence on the Constitution and Management of the British Museum_, 26 May, 1848, § 2764 (Report of 1850, p. 114).] When Mr. BABER announced, in March, 1837, his intention to resign his Keepership, Mr. PANIZZI made no application for the office, but he wrote to the Principal Trustees an expression of his hope that if, in the event, ‘any appointment was to take place on account of Mr. BABER’S resignation,’ his services would be borne in mind.