The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
[224] Epictetus (_fl._ 1st Century), of Hierapolis, the Stoic
philosopher, was born a slave. When his master, Epaphroditus, who
subsequently freed him, broke his leg for him, he was content to
observe:
"I told you you would break it"
Epictetus was driven from Rome, with the other philosophers, by
the Emperor Domitian; he returned later and won the esteem of the
Emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius.--T.
[225] John III. King of Portugal (1502-1557) succeeded his father,
Emanuel I., in 1521. He established the Inquisition in 1526.--T.
[226] Angelo Malipieri, Podesta of Padua. Two years after the above
was written, Victor Hugo produced his tragedy of _Angelo_, of which
Malipieri is the hero, at the Théâtre-Français (28 April 1835).--B.
[227] St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), monk of the Order of
St. Francis and a native of Lisbon. He was wrecked on the coast
of Italy when on his way to Africa to convert the infidels. St.
Anthony is said one day to have preached to a school of fishes and
to have been heard with attention.--T.
[228] Antonio Beccadelli Panormita (1394-1471), of Palermo, a
distinguished man of letters of his day.--T.
[229] Livy, who was born and died at Padua, divided his History of
Rome into 425 books, of which only 35 have been preserved. These
books were contained in "Decades," or groups of ten books each. The
late Benjamin Jowett used to long for the recovery of the missing
books of Livy more than for that of any other lost specimens of
literature.--T.
[230] Good drink-money or "tips."--T.
[231] Francesco Albani (1578-1660), surnamed the "Painter of the
Graces" and the "Anacreon of Painting," the great painter of the
Bologna School.--T.
[232] Heliodonis Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly (_fl._ 4th Century),
was the author of the earliest Greek romance, the _Æthiopica,_
which relates the loves and adventures of Theagines and
Chariclea.--T.
[233] Isotta Nogarola (_d._ 1466), a great and learned lady of
Verona, famous for her beauty, her knowledge and her poetic talent.
She was the author of the _Dialogus quo utrum Adam vel Eva magis
peccaverit, quæstio satis nota, sed non adeo explicata, continetur_
(Florence: 1563).--T.
[234] Francis I. Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, the
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, etc. (1768-1835).--T.
[235] The Comte de Sainte-Aulaire (_cf._ Vol. V., p. 161, n. 2)
had been appointed Ambassador to Vienna earlier in that same year
1833.--T.
[236] The Duchesse de Berry's mother was Clementina Queen of the
Two Sicilies, daughter of Leopold II. Emperor of Germany, and
sister of Francis I. Emperor of Austria.--T.
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