[Footnote 124: Blessed Sir Thomas More (1470-1535), statesman and author, beatified by Pope Leo XIII., 9 December 1886.--T.] [Footnote 125: Edmund Spenser (_circa_ 1552-1599), the poet, went to Ireland in 1580 as secretary to Lord Grey de Wilton, was in 1581 made clerk to the Irish Court of Chancery, and in 1588 clerk to the Council of Munster. In his _View of the Stoic of Ireland_, written in 1596, but not published till 1633, he advocates the most oppressive measures. His unpopularity in Ireland was extreme.--T.] [Footnote 126: Lucius Cary, second Viscount Falkland (_circa_ 1610-1643), politician and man of letters.--T.] [Footnote 127: Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1608-1674), statesman and historian.--T.] [Footnote 128: Henry St. John, first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), Secretary of State and writer.--T.] [Footnote 129: I have contented myself with giving the dates of the figures celebrated in politics and literature who are here mentioned for the first time in the Memoirs. It is curious that Chateaubriand, while insisting on his not very strong point, should have omitted the name of Joseph Addison.--T.] [Footnote 130: Alphonse Marie Louis Lamartine (1790-1869), the poet and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government of 1848.--T.] [Footnote 131: Charles Duc de Bourbon, known as the Constable de Bourbon (1490-1527), fell in the assault of Rome which ended in the sack of the city (6 May 1527).--T.] [Footnote 132: Giacomo Buonaparte, the first Bonaparte mentioned in history, left a narrative of the _Sack of Rome_ in 1527, of which he was an eye-witness. This document has been translated into French by Charles Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon III.--B.] [Footnote 133: Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus, Roman Emperor (40-81), the son of Vespasian, and the "Delight of Mankind." He succeeded to the throne in June 79 and, in the twenty-seven months of his reign, finished the Coliseum and built the Baths of Titus.--T.] [Footnote 134: Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, Roman Emperor (53-117), surnamed Dacicus and Parthicus, succeeded in 98. The forum constructed under him is situated north of the Roman Forum.--T.] [Footnote 135: St. Paul's Without the Walls, a fourth-century basilica, was burnt down in 1823.--T.] [Footnote 136: Caius Plinius Cæcilius Secundus (62-113), known as Pliny the Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle, Pliny the Elder. He is the author of the Epistles and of a Eulogy of Trajan.--T.] [Footnote 137: Melmoth's PLINY THE YOUNGER, Book I., Letter 24: To Maximus.--T.] [Footnote 138: JUSTUS LIPSIUS.--_Author's Note._] [Footnote 139: TASSO, _Gerusalemme Liberata._--_Author's Note._] [Footnote 140: Cary's DANTE: _Paradise_, Canto XI., 46-56, 59-69.--T.] [Footnote 141: Chateaubriand returned to Paris on the 28th of May 1829. The subsequent pages, to the end of Book XIII., were written in Paris, in the Rue d'Enfer, in August and September 1830.--B.]