Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc
Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces.—T.
[410] Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was born at Sorrento.—T.
[411] Quintus Horatius Flaccus (B.C. 65-B.C. 8).—T.
[412] Titus Livius (B.C. 50—A.D. 17).—T.
[413] Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the author of the Decameron, lived at Naples from about 1330 to about 1341.—T.
[414] Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), the Italian and Latin poet, was born and died at Naples.—T.
[415] Francesco Durante (1684-1755), the religious composer, born at Naples 15 March 1684, director of the Conservatory of Santa Maria di Loreto at Naples.—T.
[416] Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), composer of Il Matrimonio segreto, born at Aversa, near Naples, 17 December 1749.—T.
[417] Admiral Horatio Nelson, first Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), retired to Naples after the Battle of the Nile, in 1798, and remained there till 1800, when, on the expiration of Sir William Hamilton's embassy, he returned to England and received his peerage.—T.
[418] Emma Lady Hamilton (circa 1761-1815), née Hart, originally a servant-girl of great personal beauty and loose character, became mistress of, among many others, Charles Greville and Sir William Hamilton, whom she married on the death of his first wife and joined at Naples, where he was Envoy from 176410 1800, and finally of Nelson. Lady Hamilton played a great part at the Court of Naples as the intimate friend of Queen Maria Carolina. She died in distress.—T.