[4] Apuleius Met: Lib. 5.
Vehementer iterum ac sæpius beatos illos qui
Super gemmas et monilia calcant!
[5] Schönberg, beautiful mountain.
[6] Ariosto Orlando Furioso.—Canto 7, stanza 32.
[7] A nephew of Bertoni, the celebrated composer.
[8] This excellent and highly cultivated woman died at Naples in August 1782. Had she lived to a later period her example and influence might probably have gone great lengths towards arresting that tide of corruption and profligacy which swept off this ill-fated court to Sicily, and threatened its total destruction.
[9] Mem. pour la Vie de Petrarque, vol. i. p. 439.
[10] The Piscina mirabilis.
[11] See Letter VII.
[12] See Miss Williams’s poems.