Wordsworth says of him, in his _Essay on Epitaphs_, where translations of two of those Epitaphs of Chiabrera first appeared (see _The Friend_, February 22, 1810, and notes to _The Excursion_)--"His life was long, and every part of it bore appropriate fruits. Urbino, his birth-place, might be proud of him, and the passenger who was entreated to pray for his soul has a wish breathed for his welfare.... The Epitaphs of Chiabrera are twenty-nine in number, and all of them, save two, upon men probably little known at this day in their own country, and scarcely at all beyond the limits of it; and the reader is generally made acquainted with the moral and intellectual excellence which distinguished them by a brief history of the course of their lives, or a selection of events and circumstances, and thus they are individualized; but in the two other instances, namely, in those of Tasso and Raphael, he enters into no particulars, but contents himself with four lines expressing one sentiment, upon the principle laid down in the former part of this discourse, when the subject of the epitaph is a man of prime note...." Compare the poem _Musings near Aquapendente_. In reference to the places referred to in these Epitaphs of Chiabrera, it may be mentioned that Savona (Epitaphs III., IV., V., VII., VIII.) is a town in the Genovese territory; Permessus (Epitaphs V. and IX.) a river of Boeotia, rising in Mount Helicon and flowing round it, hence sacred to the Muses; and that the fountain of Hippocrene--also referred to in Epitaph V.--was not far distant. Sebeto (Epitaph VII.), now cape Faro, is a Sicilian promontory.--ED. VARIANTS: [1] 1837. Twine on the top of Pindus.-- ... 1810. [2] 1837. ... Song 1810. [3] 1837. And fixed his Pindus upon Lebanon. 1810. FOOTNOTES: [A] Wordsworth's extended commentary on this sonnet in his _Essay on Epitaphs_ (see his "Prose Works" in this edition), should here be referred to.--ED. [B] In _The Friend_, January 4.--ED. 1810 As indicated in the editorial note to the poems belonging to the year 1809, those of 1810 were mainly sonnets, suggested by the events occurring on the Continent of Europe, and the patriotic efforts of the Spaniards to resist Napoleon. I have assigned the two referring to Flamininus, entitled _On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History_, to the same year. They were first published in 1815, and seem to have been due to the same impulse which led Wordsworth to write the "Sonnets dedicated to Liberty."--ED. "AH! WHERE IS PALAFOX? NOR TONGUE NOR PEN" Composed 1810.--Published 1815 All the sonnets of 1810 were "dedicated to Liberty." In every edition this poem had for its title the date _1810_.--ED.