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August 12. Numbered XX
234. Though Mr. Hobhouse has written Annotations. John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gifford (1786–1869). See his Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of ‘Childe Harold,’ containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome, PAGE
and an Essay on Italian Literature, 1818, and the Notes to the Canto in Byron’s Poetical Works.
[234]. He hears it not. Byron, Childe Harold, IV. cxli. with sundry alterations.
[236]. So sit two Kings of Brentford. Cowper, The Task, I. 78.
[237]. Youthful poets dream of [fancy] when they love. Rowe’s Fair Penitent, Act III. Sc. 1.
Julia de Roubigne. A novel by Henry Mackenzie, the ‘Man of Feeling,’ (1745–1831), published 1777.
Miss Milner. The heroine of Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald’s (1753–1821) novel, A Simple Story (1791).
[238]. Guercino. See ante, note to p. [25].
Garofolo. Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofolo from his birth-place (1481–1559). His best works are to be seen at Ferrara.
[239]. Gaspar Poussin. See ante, note to p. [14].
Ariosto. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), the author of Orlando Furioso.
Pietro da Cartona. Pietro Berrettini of Cartoni (1596–1669). The ceiling of the grand saloon of the Palazzo Barberini is his; it is generally recognised as one of the greatest accomplishments of decorative art.
[240]. Andrea Sacchi. A Roman painter (d. 1661). His greatest work is the ‘St. Romuald with his Monks’ in the Vatican.