The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
[Footnote 592: Giacomo Barrocchio, or Barozzi (1507-1573), known
as Vignola, after his birth-place, a noted Italian architect, who
succeeded Michael Angelo as architect of St. Peter's.--T.]
[Footnote 593: Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566), the painter.--T.]
[Footnote 594: Bartolomeo Pinelli, a celebrated Roman engraver. His
works include a _Raccolta di cinquante costumi pittoreschi incisi
all'acqua forte_ (1809) and a _Nuova raccolta di cinquante costumi
pittoreschi incisi all'acqua forte_ (1815), 100 folio plates in all. It
was doubtless out of this collection that he promised "twelve scenes"
to Chateaubriand.--B.]
[Footnote 595: Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen or Thorwaldsen (1770-1844),
the famous Danish sculptor. He lived in Rome from 1797 to 1838 and from
1841 to 1843.--T.]
[Footnote 596: Vicenzo Camuccini (1775-1844), an Italian historical
painter, Inspector-general of the Papal Museums and Keeper of the
Vatican Collections.--B.]
[Footnote 597: Claude Gelée (1600-1682), known as Lorraine, after his
native province. The house which he inhabited in Rome still stands at
the angle of the Vie Sistina and Gregoriana. He lived in Rome from 1619
to 1625 and from 1627 to his death.--T.]
[Footnote 598: Poussin and Claude Lorraine both died in Rome: the
former on the 19th of November 1665, the latter on the 21st of November
1682. Claude Lorraine was buried in the Church of Trinità-del-Monte,
and an inscription was placed on his tomb by his nephews. We shall see
later that Chateaubriand erected a monument to Nicolas Poussin in the
Church of San-Lorenzo-in-Lucina.--B.]
[Footnote 599: Charles Président de Brosses (1709-1777), author of the
_Lettres historiques et critiques écrites d'Italie_, visited Rome in
1739 and there met King James III., known also as the Pretender, Prince
James Edward, Chevalier de Saint Georges.--B.]
[Footnote 600: Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, _de jure_ James
III. King of England (1688-1766), retired to Rome soon after the
unsuccessful rising of 1715 and spent the last fifty years of his life
there.--T.]
[Footnote 601: François Rabelais (1595-1533), Curé of Meudon and author
of _Gargantua and Pantagruel_, from the latter of which the extracts
are taken.--T.]
[Footnote 602: Jean Cardinal du Bellay (1492-1560), Bishop of Bayonne
(1526), Archbishop of Paris (1533), and a cardinal (1535). He is noted
as a man of letters and the patron of Rabelais.--T.]
[Footnote 603: Hazlitt's MONTAIGNE, _Journey into Italy._--T.]
[Footnote 604: Urquhart and Motteux' RABELAIS, _Pantagruel_, Book V.
chap. I.: _How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island and of the
noise that we heard._--T.]
[Footnote 605: Florio's MONTAIGNE, Booke II. chap. XII.: _An Apologie
of Raymond Sebond._--T.]
[Footnote 606: Hazlitt's MONTAIGNE, _Journey into Italy._--T.]
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