E cominciò con gli occhi a rimandare
Indietro a Ulivier gli ardenti dardi
Che amor sovente gli facea gettare
Acciò che solo un foco due cor ardi.
When the work was published, copies were presented by the author to his most intimate friends, and he received, amongst others, the following letters of acknowledgment:—
From Mr. W. S. Rose[[B]] (whose ire at Pickering’s device is not altogether unjustifiable):—
“Brighton, 29 April, 1830.
“Dear Panizzi,
I have seen nothing to quarrel with in your book, but will read it again, and with a more exceptious disposition.
If Pickering be not squeezed to death in his own press, his nose at least ought to be rubbed in his own frontispieces (I mean title-pages) while the ink is still wet, ... as an appropriate punishment. I do not blame him for his imitation, but for his bad imitation, of Aldus. His symbol and disposition of words are not offensive.