The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 1 (of 2): Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc.Fagan, Louis
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The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 1 (of 2): Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc.
Fagan, Louis
Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879
Sir Henry Ellis—Parliamentary Committee, 142 to 175.
1835-6—Keepership—Removal of the Library from Montague
House—“Temporary Assistants”—Superintendence of
Catalogue—Rev. R. Garnett—J. Winter Jones—Thomas
Watts—J. H. Parry—Additions to Library, 1838, and
Deficiencies—Annual Grant
CHAPTER VI.
Bridport Election—Desire to Visit Modena—Mazzini—Post 176 to 198.
Office Espionage—Biographer’s Personal
Reminiscences—Portland Vase—Psalter, 1457—Interview with
Francis IV.—Libri
CHAPTER VII.
Thiers—“Spanish Marriages”—Downfall of Lord Melbourne’s 199 to 254.
Administration—Corn Laws—Coolness between Panizzi and
Thiers
CHAPTER VIII.
The Royal Commission, 1847-49 255 to 265.
CHAPTER IX.
Mr. Grenville—Bequest—A Portrait by Manzini—Chartist 266 to 293.
Demonstration—Copyright Act—Mr. Bohn
CHAPTER X.
Lord Vernon’s Dante—Sir G. Cornewall Lewis on Milton and 294 to 312.
Dante—“Chi era Francesco da Bologna?”—John Harris
CHAPTER XI.
Minor Incidents—Holland House—Sydney Smith—Ecclesiastical 313 to 329.
Commission Act (1836)—Joseph Parkes—Count d’Orsay—Lord
Melbourne—Mrs. Norton—Dr. Hampden’s Case—Watt’s Portrait
of Panizzi—Lord Holland—Sir T. D. Hardy’s Life of Lord
Langdale
CHAPTER XII.
Panizzi and Austria—Policy of Lord Palmerston 330 to 337.
Discussed—Mr. E. Ellice—Scotch Sabbath—Mr. Gladstone on
Tasso—Panizzi and Thomas Carlyle
CHAPTER XIII.
The New Reading-Room—Sir C. Barry’s Plans—Completion and 338 to 390.
Breakfast—Mr. Hosking’s Plans—Controversy—Bust by Baron
Marochetti—Austria applies for Plans of Reading-Room
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. I.
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