“An enthusiastic and well sustained treatment of Spanish life and scenes. At times sentimental and pseudo-philosophic.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S. |
“After reading the book, the reviewer suggests, as a more fitting title, ‘Spanish phantasies’ or, ‘Sobs of the desert.’ George G. Brownell.”
| − | Dial. 42: 135. Mr. 1, ’07. 1240w. |
“A piece of the true literature, in which the very spirit of the scenes described has been caught and reproduced.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 240w. |
Hutton, Edward. Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini: a study of a fifteenth century Italian despot. *$4. Dutton.
7–11548.
A record of fact retold as fiction. “The volume, which is a study of the ‘Quattrocento’ in Italy, with the principal figure an Italian despot, is supposed to be a translation of ‘the memoirs of the most material transactions’ in the life of Malatesta, ‘written in Tuscan by Pietro Sanseverino, with a sketch of his own life and account of his meeting with Leon Battista Albert.’... The book is fully illustrated with photogravures of portraits, documents, etc.” (N. Y. Times)