Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy. By Mrs. Shelley, Sir D. Brewster, James Montgomery, and others. Two volumes: Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard.
The lives embraced in these volumes are those of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de Medici, Bojardo, Berni, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Galileo, Guicciardini, Vittoria Colonna, Guarini, Tasso, Chiabrera, Tassoni, Marini, Filicaja, Metastasio, Goldoni, Alfieri, Monti, and Ugo Foscolo. We have no clue to the names of the respective writers—but the biographies are, without exception, well written—although at times their brevity is annoying. As a whole, the work is not only interesting, but of value.
LATEST FASHIONS, SEPTEMBER, 1841. FOR GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE
Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious punctuation and typesetting errors have been corrected without note.
[End of Graham’s Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 3, September 1841, George R. Graham, Editor]