[Footnote 551: Jan Count Potoçki (1761-1815), the Polish traveller, archæologist and historian. He committed suicide on the 2nd of December 1815.--T.] [Footnote 552: St. Jerome (_circa_ 331-420), a father of the Church, honoured on the 30th of September, the anniversary of his death.--T.] [Footnote 553: The bridge of Spoleto is the highest in Europe.--T.] [Footnote 554: GRAY, _Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College_, 51-54.--T.] [Footnote 555: "Man's misery leads him back to God."--T.] [Footnote 556: Tommaso Cardinal Bernetti (1779-1852), created a cardinal in 1727, and Secretary of State from 1828 to 1836.--T.] [Footnote 557: Pierre Narcisse Baron Guérin (1774-1833), a French historical painter and pupil of Regnault. He gained the Prix de Rome in 1797, became an academician in 1815 and, in 1816, returned to Rome as director of the French Academy in that city.--T.] [Footnote 558: Chateaubriand here gives only the commencement of his letter of 11th October. The other letters to Madame Récamier contained in the present book have all been more or less modified by the author, who sometimes curtails and sometimes adds to the original text. Madame Lenormant, in the second volume of her _Souvenir de Madame Récamier_, has reprinted the great writer's letters in their entirety, after the originals in her possession.--B.] [Footnote 559: Giacomo Antonio Cardinal Benvenuti (1665-1838), created a cardinal in 1826 and Legate _a letere_ of the Marches in 1831.--B.] [Footnote 560: Carlo Cardinal Oppizoni (1769-1855), Archbishop of Bologna (1802) and a cardinal (1804).--B.] [Footnote 561: Agostino Cardinal Rivarola (1758-1842) had been Governor of Rome.--B.] [Footnote 562: Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi (1786-1841), created a cardinal in 1823.--B.] [Footnote 563: Pietro Cardinal Vidoni (1759-1830).--T.] [Footnote 564: When I left Rome, he bought my calash and did me the honour to die in it on his way to Ponte-Mole.--_Author's Note_ (Paris, 1836).] [Footnote 565: Christian Karl Josias Baron von Bunsen (1791-1860), a distinguished scholar and diplomatist. He was successively secretary of Legation, _Chargé d'affaires_ and Minister to Rome (1818-1838), Minister to Switzerland (1839-1841) and Minister to London (1841-1854), and published a number of erudite historical works in the German language.--T.] [Footnote 566: Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1774-1831), a celebrated German historian, philologist and critic, was born at Copenhagen and was in the Danish Civil Service until 1806, when he entered that of Prussia. He was Prussian Minister to Rome from 1816 to 1823, with Bunsen as his secretary of Legation. Niebuhr's _Römische Geschichte_ (1811-1832) revolutionized the study of Roman history.--T.] [Footnote 567: Maria Antonovna Narischkine, wife of Alexander Narischkine, a graceful and poetic Russian beauty, much admired by Alexander I.--B.]