[368] {324} [Antonio Canova, sculptor, 1757-1822; Vincenzo Monti, 1754-1828; Ugo Foscolo, 1776-1827 (see _Life_, p. 456, etc.); Ippolito Pindemonte, 1753-1828 (see Letter to Murray, June 4, 1817), poets; Ennius Quirinus Visconti, 1751-1818, the valuer of the Elgin marbles, archæologist; Giacomo Morelli, 1745-1819, bibliographer and scholar (the architect Cosimo Morelli, born 1732, died in 1812); Leopoldo Conte de Cicognara, 1767-1834, archæologist; the Contessa Albrizzi, 1769?-1836, authoress of _Ritratti di Uomini Illustri_ (see _Life_, pp. 331, 413, etc.); Giuseppe Mezzofanti, 1774-1849, linguist; Angelo Mai (cardinal), 1782-1854, philologist; Andreas Moustoxides, 1787-1860, a Greek archæologist, who wrote in Italian; Francesco Aglietti (see _Life_, p. 378, etc.), 1757-1836; Andrea Vacca Berlinghieri, 1772-1826 (see _Life_, p. 339). For biographical essays on Monti, Foscolo, and Pindemonte, see "Essay on the Present Literature of Italy" (Hobhouse's _Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold_, 1818, pp. 347, _sq._). See, too, _Italian Literature_, by R. Garnett, C.B., LL.D., 1898, pp. 333-337, 337-341, 341-342.] [369] {325} [Shelley (notes M. Darmesteter), in his preface to the _Prometheus Unbound_, "emploie le mot sans demander pardon." "The mass of capabilities remains at every period materially the same; the circumstances which awaken it to action perpetually change." "Capability" in the sense of "undeveloped faculty or property; a condition physical or otherwise, capable of being converted or turned to use" (_N. Eng. Dict._), appertains rather to material objects. To apply the term figuratively to the forces inherent in national character savoured of a literary indecorum. Hence the apology.] [370] [Addison, _Cato_, act v. sc. 1, line 3-- "It must be so--_Plato_, thou reason'st well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?"] [371] [Shelley chose this refrain as the motto to his unfinished lines addressed to his infant son-- "My lost William, thou in whom Some bright spirit lived----"] [372] [Scott commented severely on this opprobrious designation of "the great and glorious victory of Waterloo," in his critique on the Fourth Canto, _Q. R._, No. xxxvii., April, 1818.] [373] {326} [_The substance of some letters written by an Englishman resident in Paris during the last Reign of the Emperor Napoleon_. 1816. 2 vols.] [374] [In 1817.] [375] {327} [Venice and La Mira on the Brenta. Copied, August, 1817. Begun, June 26. Finished, July 29th. MS. M.] [376] [Byron sent the first stanza to Murray, July 1, 1817, "the shaft of the column as a specimen." Gifford, Frere, and many more to whom Murray "ventured to show it," expressed their approval (_Memoir of John Murray_, i. 385).