"The Author's great forte is character painting. This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness."—Spectator.
"Under the modest guise of a biography of an imaginary Lorenzo Benoni, we have here, in fact, the memoir of a man whose name could not be pronounced in certain parts of Northern Italy without calling up tragic yet noble historical recollections.... Its merits, simply as a work of literary art, are of a very high order. The style is really beautiful—easy, sprightly, graceful, and full of the happiest and most ingenious turns of phrase and of fancy."—North British Review.
"As lively in its tone as 'Gil Blas,' and full of those descriptions of contemporary manners among foreigners—those narratives of foreign contemporary events and sketches of foreign contemporary character that must always command the highest interest."—Standard.
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes that has of late come to our hands.... A lively Autobiography which bears the seal of fidelity in every sentence."—Morning Advertiser.
"Wise, virtuous, noble, cultivated, refined, matured by sorrows, is the mind which gave it birth. Let it go forth to amuse, to teach, to warn, to encourage, to comfort; in all ways to do good."—Eclectic Review.
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"We remember nothing in fictitious narrative more pathetic,—we might say, so pathetic."—Standard.