[212] Ivan VI. Emperor of All the Russias(1740-1764) succeeded his aunt, the Empress Anne, as an infant of three months, but was deposed in the course of the following year by Elizabeth, the laughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. He was murdered in prison at the age of twenty-three, under the reign of Catherine II.—T.
[213] Frederic Augustus I. Elector of Saxony, later Augustus II. King of Poland (1670-1733), surnamed the Strong, elected King of Poland in 1697, deposed in 1704, and reinstated in 1709; and Stanislaus I. Leczinski (1677-1766), elected King of Poland in 1704, crowned in 1705, obliged to leave Poland in 1709: he was again a candidate in 1733, on the death of Augustus II., and formally abdicated in 1735.—T.
[214] Theodore King of Corsica (circa 1686-1756) was a German adventurer, Theodor Baron von Neuhof. He aided the Corsicans against the Republic of Genoa in 1735 to 1736; was proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica in 1736; and was driven out by the Genoese in 1738. An attempt made to recapture his power in 1743 failed. Theodore withdrew to London, where his person was seized by his creditors, and he was kept in prison for debt for seven years.—T.
[215] Voltaire: Candide, ou L'Optimisme, Part I., Chap. XXVI.: Candid and Martin sup with six Strangers; and who they were.—T.
[216] Chateaubriand wrote the next day to Madame Récamier:
"Thursday 19 September 1833.
"All is changed. They absolutely want me to go to the end of the journey, where they dare not arrive without me. All my resistance was unavailing; I had to resign myself. So I am leaving. This will prolong my absence another month. I am going to send Hyacinthe to Paris; he will bring you a long letter and details. Nothing in my life ever cost me a greater pang than this last sacrifice, unless it be that attached to my resignation of Rome.—B.
[217] Pietro Liberi (1605-1687), born and died at Padua, a religious and historical painter of the Venetian School.—T.
[218] Jacopo Palma the Younger (circa 1544-1628), a painter of the Venetian School, distinguished for the freshness of his colouring.—T.
[219] Giacomo Tatti (1479-1570), known as Sansovino, a noted Florentine sculptor and architect, held by some to be second, as a sculptor, to Michael Angelo alone. Sansovino is the architect of the Mint, the Library of St. Mark and the Palazzo Cornaro in Venice.—T.
[220] Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586), son of the above, is better known as a man of letters and grammarian than as an artist.—T.