[649] Dupaty, Travels through Italy, Letter 79.—T.
[650] Ibid., Letter 87.—T.
[651] Ibid., Letter 55.—T.
[652] Charles Dupaty (1771-1825), the president's eldest son, studied in Rome and became a sculptor of merit. His Venus Genitrix is one of his best-known works.—B.
[653] Goethe visited Italy in 1786.—T
[654] Byron visited Rome in 1817.—T.
[655] Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV. stanza 79.—T.
[656] The fourth canto of Childe Harold was published in 1818; Byron died at Missolonghi in 1823.—T.
[657] I invite the perusal of two articles by M. Jean Jacques Ampère in the Revue des Deux Mondes of the 1st and 15th of July 1835, entitled, Portraits de Rome à différents ages. Those curious documents will complete a picture of which I here give only a sketch.—Author's Note (Paris, 1837).
[658] Vittoria Principessa Altieri (1799-1840), née Boncompagni-Ludovisi degli Principi di Piombino.—T.