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
[65] "When, on the 7th of August 1814, the Bull of _Sollicitudo
omnium ecclesiarum_, came to sanction the work of restoration of the
Company of Jesus, the primitive cantons of Switzerland did not remain
insensible to the joys of Catholicism. Ignace Brocard, Jacques Roh,
Gaspard Rothenflue and several of their fellow-countrymen enlisted
under the banner of the newly-reinstated Order. The Valais gave back to
the Jesuits their old college of Brigg." (CRÉTINEAU-JOLY, _Histoire du
Sunderbund_, Vol. I., p. 428.)--B.
[66] _Dies Iræ_, Stanza 5:
Liber seri plus proferetur,
In quo totum continetur,
Unde mundus judicetur.--T.
[67] Francis I. lived till 1835.--T.
[68] Charles X. lived till 1836.--T.
[69] Ferdinand III. Grand-duke of Tuscany (1769-1824). _Vide supra_ p.
12, n. 1.--T.
[70] Charles Felix I. King of Sardinia (1765-1831) succeeded to the
throne on the abdication of his brother, Victor Emanuel I., in 1821,
the year before the Congress of Verona.--T.
[71] Pierre François Hercule Comte de Serre (1777-1822). He died as
Ambassador to Naples.--T.
[72] Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552-1616), the architect of many of the finest
buildings in North Italy.--T.
[73] Niccola Pisano (_circa_ 1206-1278), one of the greatest Italian
architects.--T.
[74] And not Signor Procurante, as the earlier editions of the Memoirs
have it.--T.
[75] VOLTAIRE: _Candide, ou l'Optimisme_, Part I., Chap. XXV.: _Candid
and Martin pay a Visit to Seignor Pococurante, a Noble Venetian._--T.
[76] Philippe de Comines (_circa_ 1445-1511), the statesman and
historian, author of the valuable _Cronique et hystoire faicte et
composée par messire Philippe de Comines._--T.
[77] JACOPO SANNAZARO.--_Author's Note._
[78] GABRIELLO CHIABRERA, _Canzoni eroiche_, III.: _Per Vittorio
Cappello, Generale de' Veneziani nella Morea_, 10-12.--T.
[79] Pierre Luc Charles Cicéri (1782-1868), a famous French
scene-painter, who executed numbers of stage-scenes for the Royal
Academy of Music, or grand Opera-house, in Paris.--B.
[80] Giorgio Barbarelli (_circa_ 1477-1511), known as Giorgione,
the great Venetian colourist and pupil of Giovanni Bellini (_vide
infra._)--T.
[81] Paolo Cagliari (1528-1588), of Verona, known as Paul Veronese, one
of the most celebrated painters of the Venetian School, went to Venice
in 1555 and remained there. He executed the decorations of the Library
of St. Mark in 1563 and the ceiling of the council-chamber in the
Palace of the Doges in 1577.--T.
[82] Jacopo Robusti (1518-1594), called Tintoretto from the trade of
his father, a dyer, received his first important order in 1546, for the
decoration of Santa Maria dell' Orto. In 1560, he began to paint the
Scuola di San Rocco and the Doges' Palace and, in the same year, seems
to have taken Titian's place as Court painter to the Doges.--T.
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