CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Introduction—History of Brescello—Birth—Parentage—Education—Carbonaro—Piedmontese and Neapolitan Revolutions, 1820—“I Processi di Rubiera”[3 to 38].
CHAPTER II.
Flight—Lugano—Arrival in London—Santa-Rosa—Sentence of Death—At Liverpool—Roscoe—Shepherd—Haywood—Linati—Pecchio—Letter to the Tax-Gatherer and Inspector of Finances—Miss Martin—Lectures[39 to 62].
CHAPTER III.
Foscolo—At Holkham—First Article—Departure from Liverpool—Brougham—Miss Turner—London University—Botta—Lady Dacre—“Orlando Innamorato”—W. S. Rose—Keightley—Moore’s Verses—Correspondence with Mr. Grenville—Appointed to the British Museum[63 to 101].
CHAPTER IV.
The British Museum—Appointment Discussed—First Duties—The Royal Society—Promotion—Cary—Hallam’s Letter—Official Residence[102 to 141].
CHAPTER V.
Sir Henry Ellis—Parliamentary Committee, 1835-6—Keepership—Removal of the Library from Montague House—“Temporary Assistants”—Superintendence of Catalogue—Rev. R. Garnett—J. Winter Jones—Thomas Watts—J. H. Parry—Additions to Library, 1838, and Deficiencies—Annual Grant[142 to 175].
CHAPTER VI.
Bridport Election—Desire to Visit Modena—Mazzini—Post Office Espionage—Biographer’s Personal Reminiscences—Portland Vase—Psalter, 1457—Interview with Francis IV.—Libri[176 to 198].
CHAPTER VII.
Thiers—“Spanish Marriages”—Downfall of Lord Melbourne’s Administration—Corn Laws—Coolness between Panizzi and Thiers[199 to 254].
CHAPTER VIII.
The Royal Commission, 1847-49[255 to 265].
CHAPTER IX.
Mr. Grenville—Bequest—A Portrait by Manzini—Chartist Demonstration—Copyright Act—Mr. Bohn[266 to 293].
CHAPTER X.
Lord Vernon’s Dante—Sir G. Cornewall Lewis on Milton and Dante—“Chi era Francesco da Bologna?”—John Harris[294 to 312].
CHAPTER XI.
Minor Incidents—Holland House—Sydney Smith—Ecclesiastical Commission Act (1836)—Joseph Parkes—Count d’Orsay—Lord Melbourne—Mrs. Norton—Dr. Hampden’s Case—Watt’s Portrait of Panizzi—Lord Holland—Sir T. D. Hardy’s Life of Lord Langdale[313 to 329].
CHAPTER XII.
Panizzi and Austria—Policy of Lord Palmerston Discussed—Mr. E. Ellice—Scotch Sabbath—Mr. Gladstone on Tasso—Panizzi and Thomas Carlyle[330 to 337].
CHAPTER XIII.
The New Reading-Room—Sir C. Barry’s Plans—Completion and Breakfast—Mr. Hosking’s Plans—Controversy—Bust by Baron Marochetti—Austria applies for Plans of Reading-Room[338 to 390].