[11] This piece appeared afterwards as Opus 39.

[12] Vernet lived in the Villa Medici.

[13] This picture is in the Borghese Gallery.

[14] On the 3rd of February, 1830, the bands of some regiments in Berlin gave Mendelssohn a serenade in honour of his birthday.

[15] The Prussian Consul-General Bartholdy, who died in Rome, and was an uncle of Felix Mendelssohn's.

[16] Some disturbances had in the meantime broken out in the Ecclesiastical States, at Bologna.

[17] The whole family had been in Switzerland in the year 1821.

[18] In the 'Titan' of Jean Paul.

[19] The overture to the "Midsummer Night's Dream" was composed by Mendelssohn as early as the year 1826.

[20] In the year 1821.