as alike unhappy and beloved, alludes to her recent widowhood. Costanza Monti, who inherited no small portion of her fathers genius, and all her mother's grace and beauty, married the Count Giulio Perticari of Pesaro, a man of uncommon taste and talents, and an admired poet. He died in the same year with Canova, to whom he had been a favourite friend and companion: while his lovely wife furnished the sculptor with a model for his ideal heads of vestals and poetesses. Those who saw the Countess Perticari at Rome, such as she appeared seven or eight years ago, will not easily forget her brilliant eyes, and yet more brilliant talents. She, too, is a poetess. In her father's works may be found a little canzone written by her about a year after the death of her husband, and with equal tenderness and simplicity, alluding to her lonely state, deprived of him who once encouraged and cultivated her talents, and deserved her love.[94] Vincenzo Monti died in October 1828:--his widow and his daughter reside, I believe, at Milan. FOOTNOTES: [89] Worn by the young men who are intended for the Church. [90] Barry Cornwall. [91] Opere Varie v. iii. This sonnet to his wife was written when Monti was ill at the house of his son-in-law, Count Perticari. [92] Edit. 1826, vol. vi. [93] In the original, Monti designates himself by an allusion to his chef-d'oeuvre--"Del Cantor di Basville." [94] Monti, Opere, vol. iii. p. 75. CHAPTER XIII. POETS AND BEAUTIES, FROM CHARLES II. TO QUEEN ANNE. Thus, then, it appears, that love, even the most ethereal and poetical, does not always take flight "at sight of human ties;" and Pope wronged the real delicacy of Heloise when he put this borrowed sentiment into her epistle, making that conduct the result of perverted principle, which, in _her_, was a sacrifice to extreme love and pride in its object. It is not the mere idea of bondage which frightens away the light-winged god; The gentle bird feels no captivity Within his cage, but sings and feeds his fill.[95] It is when those bonds, which were first decreed in heaven To keep two hearts together, which began Their spring-time with one love, are abused to vilest purposes:--to link together indissolubly, unworthiness with desert, truth with falsehood, brutality with gentleness; then indeed love is scared; his cage becomes a dungeon;--and either he breaks away, with plumage all impaired,--or folds up his many-coloured wings, and droops and dies.