126. Italian Writer on Political Economy—Carli the Economist.
—What was the first work by an Italian writer on any element of political economy? and in what year did Carli, the celebrated economist, die?
ALPHA.
127. Nightingale and Thorn.
—Where is the earliest notice of the fable of the nightingale and the thorn? that she sings because she has a thorn in her breast? For obvious reasons, the fiction cannot be classical.
It is noticed by Byron:
"The nightingale that sings with the deep thorn,
That fable places in her breast of wail,
Is lighter far of heart and voice than those
Whose headlong passions form their proper woes."