[454] Agostino Pantaleone Giustiniani (1470-1531), Bishop of Nebbis in Corsica, and author of the Psalterium hebraicum, græcum, arabicum, chaldaicum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus et glossis, the first work of its kind published. Giustiniani was drowned in crossing from Genoa to Corsica.—T.
[455] Ps. XVIII.—T.
[456] Ibid. 6.—T.
[457] Luiz de Camoëns (1517 or 1525-1579), author of the Lusiad which treats of the exploits of Vasco da Gama, spent many years in India and in exile in Macao, where he wrote his principal poem. On his return from banishment, he was wrecked off the coast of Cochin China, where he is said to have lost all he possessed, except the manuscript of the Lusiad.—T.
[458] Guillaume le Breton (circa 1165-circa 1220), the historian of Philip Augustus. The quotation is from his chronicle entitled, Philippidos libri duodecime, sive Gesta Philippi Augusti, versibus heroïcis descripta.—T.
[459] Ps. CVII. 27.—T.
[460] "Burning with immortal ardour,
'Tis to God my hopes are turned."—T.
[461] TASSO, Gerusalemme Liberata, XV. 27.—B.
[462] Jacques Cartier (1494—circa 1554), the discoverer of Newfoundland and of the greater part of Canada.—T.
[463] Génie du Christianisme, Part I. book V. chap. 12: Deux perspectives de la Nature.—B.