Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)

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Rohan, chevalier de, his ill usage of Voltaire, II. 17. Does not choose to fight the poet, 18.

Roland, madame (Manon Phlipon), her opinion of the marquis of Condorcet, II. 187. 193. Her literary reputation, 260. Her Memoirs, 260. Condition of her parents, 261. Receives a careful education, 261. Her early habits, 262. Her admiration of Pascal and the Port-Royal, 263. Vain of her intellectual powers and acquired talents, 264. Her suitors, 265. Impressions on reading the "Nouvelle Héloise," 266. Her habit of writing her remarks, 267. She lives in a convent on a scanty income, 267. M. Roland de la Platière, 268. His high character, 268. Sues for her hand, and is referred to her father, who rejects him, 269. Conduct on this event, 270. Their union takes place, 270. They travel through Switzerland and England, 271. Wish to go to America, 271. Her letters, 271. She gladly hails the revolution, 272. Her fears as to its nature, 272. Monsieur Roland deputed on financial affairs from Lyons to the National Assembly, 273. She returns to Paris, and is greatly admired, 273. Her husband consorts with the Girondists and Brissot, 273. Her political sentiments on the crisis, 275. Her republican love of liberty, 275. Roland appointed minister of the interior, 277. His costume at court, 277. Is dismissed, 278. Recalled by Louis XVI., 279. Her dread of Robespierre, Marat, and Danton, 280. Description of madame Roland by Le Montey, 281. Dumont's testimony of her modesty of demeanour, 282. Energy of M. Roland against the Septembriseurs, 282. He is the chief hope of the Girondist party, 283. He endeavours to repress the Mountain party, 285. Execution of Louis XVI., whereupon M. Roland resigns his office, 285. Madame Roland in danger of arrest, 285. Prepares to leave Paris, 285. Prevented by sickness, 286. On the order to arrest her husband she determines to appear before the Convention to expostulate, 286. Escape of her husband and fortitude with regard her own peril, 286. She was said to ad. mire the handsome Barbaroux, deputy for Marseilles, 286. Her calmness on being arrested, 287. Arranges a systematic mode of life in the Abbaie, 287. Commits her observations on the leaders of the revolution to writing, 288. Deceptive assurance of her being at liberty, 288. But carried to Ste. Pélagie, 288. She names Marceau to be her advocate, 291. Her defence written by her over-night, 291. Her sentence, 291. Is guillotined, 292. Her dying address to the statue of Liberty, 293. M. Roland, in safety at Rouen, stabs himself, not to outlive his wife, 293. Her courage and sweetness of character recorded, 293.

Romance, Spanish, I. 45.

Rome, visit of Rabelais to, I. 28. Facetiousness of Rabelais elicited, 29. He attacks the vices of the high clergy and ignorance of the monks, 31.

Rotrou, poetry of, I. 43.

Rousseau, Jean Baptiste, banished on his dispute with M. Saurin, II. 6. His quarrel with Voltaire, 17. 31.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, ridiculed by Voltaire, II. 88. Born at Geneva in 1712, 111. His studies in that town, 112. Early life of, 113. His "Confessions," 113. _et passim._ His rambles, 115. Visits the curé Pontverre, 116. Visits madame de Warens at Annecy, 117. Is sent as a proselyte to an hospital at Turin, 117. Errors and consequent remorse, 119. Leads a vagabond life, 120. Returns to madame de Warens, 121. His want of moral courage, 121. She departs for Paris, 122. Becomes a music-master at Neufchâtel, 122. And at Chambery, 124. His projects, 125. Resides with madame de Warens at Les Charmettes, near Chambery, 125. His new method of noting music, 127. Arrives in Paris, 128. Accompanies M. Montaigu as secretary to Venice, 128. Returns to Paris, and is kindly received by his former friends, 129. His mistress, Thérèse le Vasseur, 130. 144. 162. He sends their children to the Foundling Hospital, 131. His account of this act in his "Confessions," 130. Remissness of his moral sentiments, 132. His friendship for Diderot, 133. 144. Laments his friend's imprisonment, 144. The academy of Dijon having proposed a question as to the influence of the progress of arts and sciences on the happiness and virtue of man, Jean Jacques, in an essay, asserts, it to be of evil tendency, and so eloquently as to bear off the palm 134. This success acquires him consideration, 135. He refuses the offer of a place with a farmer-general, although a road to fortune, 129. 135. Earns a livelihood by copying music, 135. His "Devin du Village," 136. It becomes the fashion with the great to encourage and soothe him, 136. Revisits Geneva, 137. Abjures the Romish faith, 137. He inhabits the Hermitage, near the wood of Montmorenci, 138. His writings, 139. His meditations and day dreams, 139. His "System of Education," 139. Writes the "Nouvelle Héloise," 140. 150. His declarations to madame d'Houdetot, 142. His mental sufferings nurtured by this hopeless passion, 145. Accusation against Grimm's loyalty in his conduct to Rousseau, 145. Diderot's letter to Rousseau respecting madame d'Epinay, 146. Indecision of Jean Jacques, 146. Removes to Montmorenci, 147. Diderot having offended him, seeks a reconciliation, and is repulsed, 148. The nobility court him with compassionate regard, 150. His religious principles unsettled, 152. "The Confession of the Vicar of Savoy," 152. Consequences of the publication of "Emile," 153. The "Emile" of Rousseau condemned to the flames at Geneva, 153. Rousseau proceeds to Iverdun, in the territory of Bern, 154. Exiled by the states of Bern and Geneva, he settles at Motiers, near Neufchâtel, 154. Engages in a controversy of the Genevans, 157. His "Lettres écrites de la Montagne," 157. Resides in the island of St. Pierre, lake of Bienne, 158. Accompanies David Hume to England, 159. Writes the first portion of his "Confessions" at Wotton, 160. George III. grants him a pension of 100_l._ per annum, 161. Being half deranged, he flies to France, 161. Is protected by the prince of Conti, 162. He quits the Armenian dress he had worn for ten years, 163. Is welcomed in Paris, 163. Reads his "Confessions" to a circle of acquaintance, 164. His mode of life, and diligence in earning a subsistence, 165. The prince de Ligne takes an interest in his welfare, 165. His objection to receive presents, 167. Respect shown for him by a Parisian audience at a theatre, 168. His death, 169. Inquiry into his state of mind, 169. _et passim._ Inscription on his tomb, 170. His character, 171. His reveries, 172. Critique on the "Emile," 173. On the "Nouvelle Héloise," 174.

S.

Sablière, madame de la, I. 165. Her society of poets, philosophers, &c., 166. 171. Her husband, the marquis de la Sablière, 166. 171. His fate, 163. 171.

Sacy, M. de, friend of Pascal, I. 198. And of Racine, 298.

Saint Cyr, scene of madame Guyon's impassioned mysteries, I. 342.

Sainte Helène, M. de, I. 223.

Saint Lambert, M. de, II. 141. 143.

Scaramouche, Italian actor, instructs Molière, I. 102.

Scarron, abbé, imitator of Rabelais in facetiousness, I. 36. Allusions to, 283.

Schomberg, count de, I. 215. Created marshal, 215. II. 145.

"Sciomachie, La," by Rabelais, I. 37.

Scott, sir Walter, his Essay on Molière, I. 108. 128. 130, n. Allusion to his works, 147.

Schlegel, his criticisms on Molière, I. 146.

Schlegel, William, not permitted by Buonaparte to reside at madame de Staël's at Coppet, II. 336.

Scudéri, M. de, I. 45. His attack upon Corneille, 47.

Scudéri, mademoiselle, her novels, I. 107. Their extravagant style in language and argument, 107. Allusions to, I. 223, n. 293.

Séguier, chancellor of France, I. 222. 223.

Segur, count de, descended in the female line from Montaigne, I. 21, n.

Seneca, tragedies of, I. 44.

Sévigné, madame de, compares the genius of Corneille with Racine, and prefers the former, I. 57. Her delightful style, 85..87. Her character of the duke of Rochefoucauld, 88. Her life narrated, 214-258. Her maiden name Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, 214. Her father, the baron de Chantal, slain at La Rochelle in an engagement with the English, 215. His laconic epistle to marshal Schomberg, 215. His family the elder branch of the Rabutins, 214. 215. His wife was Marie de Coulanges, 214. 215. Their daughter, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, born in 1626, 214. Is left an orphan, 215. Taught Italian and Latin by Ménage and Chapelle, 216. Is married to Henri, marquis de Sévigné, 216. Her children, 216. The marquise a zealous Frondeuse, 217. Her friendship with mademoiselle de Montpensier and the duchess de Châtillon, 217. Loss of her husband, 218. Educates her children, 218. Her widowhood exemplary, 218. Her grief on the loss of the abbé de Coulanges, her uncle, 223. She frequents the Hôtel Rambouillet, 220. Quarrel of Bussy-Rabutin with his fair cousin, 221. Reconciliation, 225. He reproaches her with avarice, 225. Her sorrow for the imprisonment and exile of de Retz, 221. Her sympathy with the misfortunes of Fouquet, 222. 223, n. She retires from Paris, 225. Returns and presents her daughter at court, 225. Her journeys to her estate of Les Rochers in Brittany, 237. 239. 249.; and to see her daughter in Provence, 228. 241. Her separation from her daughter, 228. Her son accompanies an expedition to Candia, 226. His attachment for Ninon de l'Enclos, 230. He marries and retires to his estates in Brittany, 231. 240. 247. 249. Madame de la Fayette and other friends of madame de Sévigné, 231. Her life in Brittany described, 240. 241. Seized with rheumatism, 244. She is out of favour at court, as being a Jansenist, 248. 249. 257. She spends her latter years with her daughter in Provence, 253. Final visit to Paris, 254. She dies at Grignan, aged 70. 254. Opinions on her character and literary merit, 255-258. Her family now extinct, 258. Remark of madame de Sévigné, II. 207. Her correspondence:--Letters to her daughter, madame de Grignan, I, 220. 224. 237. 238. 239. 241. 244. 246. 247. 248. 251. Her letters to her cousin the count de Bussy-Rabutin, 217. 226. 227. 247. 249. 251. Her letters to various friends, 223. Letters from count de Bussy to madame de Sévigné, 219.

Sévigné, Henri Marquis de, I. 216. His marriage with Marie de Rabutin-Chantal at first happy, 216. Their son and daughter, 216. His relationship to the cardinal de Retz, 217. The marquis and his celebrated lady join the Fronde, 217. His affection for Ninon de l'Enclos, 217. Killed by the chevalier d'Albret in a duel, 218.

Shakspeare, William, I. 40. Voltaire's remarks on, II. 101.

Sirven family, case of the, II. 83.

"Songes Drolatiques," to whom ascribed, I. 38.

Sophocles, I. 40. II. 15. His "Œdipus Tyrannus," 16.

Sorbonne, the, condemns Rabelais' "Pantagruel," I. 31. The "Philosophical Cream," a burlesque on the schoolmen of, 38. Condemns the book on St. Augustin, by Antony Arnaud, 200.

Soyecourt, M. de, Grand-Veneur, I. 113.

Spain, the modern drama takes its rise in, I. 41. Guillen de Castro, 45. Lope de Vega, 51. War of with France during the minority of Louis XIV., 67.

Staël Holstein, baronne de, her father, M. Necker, placed in the banking-house of Thelusson, II. 295. His essay on corn-laws, 295. Marries mademoiselle Churchod, 296. Their only daughter, 296. Early instructions and habits of madame de Staël, 297. Attention paid her in society by men of letters, 297. Her attention to their discourse, 298. Her taste for society thus acquired, 298. Fears with regard to her health, 299. She attributes her frankness, to her father's quick perception of her faults, 300. His high repute in France, 301. His "Compte Rendu," 301. 304. Retires to Coppet on the Lake of Geneva, 302. His work on finance, its enormous sale, 303. Mlle. Necker begins to write at an early age, 303. Her Plays and Tales printed, 303. Her suitors, 304. Mr. Gibbon a visitor at Necker's, 305. She espouses the baron de Staël Holstein, 305. Her letters on the writings of Rousseau, 305. Portrait or character of her at this period, 306. Her father restored to the ministry by Louis XVI., 307. His moderation, 307. Is again exiled, and ordered to depart silently, 308. Necker and his wife repair to Brussels. 309. Madame de Staël's remarks on joining him there, 309. His generosity in financial matters toward the nation, 309. The Bastille being destroyed, Louis again sends for him, and he returns to Paris, 310. The baroness describes their journey, 311. She witnesses many events of the revolution, 312. Interview with Marie Antoinette, 313. Necker resigns on account of the issue of assignats, which he disapproved, 313. Madame de Staël shares in Lafayette's plan for effecting the escape of the king, 314. Her carriage stopped by the republicans, 314. Her courage, 314. Sets out from Paris, 315. Carried before the section of St. Germain, 316. She pleads before Robespierre's tribunal her being the ambassadress from Sweden, 316. Is saved by the interposition of Manuel, 316. Is allowed to leave Paris with her maid only, 317. Her joy on traversing Mount Jura and arriving at her father's at Coppet, 317. Visits England, 317. Her father's pamphlet in favour of Louis XVI., and her appeal for the queen, 318. Death of madame Necker, 318. M. de Staël repairs to Paris as Swedish ambassador, accompanied by the baroness, 319. Although denounced in the reign of terror, her influence was still great, 320. Her feelings and character depicted, 320. Her first meeting with Buonaparte unpropitious, 321. Invasion of Switzerland, 322. She repairs to Coppet to M. Necker, 322. Witnesses the revolution which established Buonaparte, 323. Her conversation with Joseph Buonaparte, 324. Benjamin Constant her friend, 324. Enmity of Napoleon on account of Constant's opposition, 325. Her loss of her husband in 1799, 327. Her novel of "Delphine," 327. Its charm, 327. Her love of her father, 328. On the expiration of the peace of Amiens she is exiled from Paris, 329. She is accompanied by Benjamin Constant to Weimar and Berlin, 330. Her "Années d'Exil" one of her best writings, 330. 339. Death of her father, 331. Her affection for her children, 331. Her society, 331. Publishes the writings of M. Necker, 331. Visits Rome and writes "Corinne," 331. Opinion of that work in Italy, 332. Publishes "Corinne" at Rouen, 332. Her perception of ennui, 333. Her sentiments, 333. Intends publishing her "Germany" at Blois, 331. The impression is seized, and she is ordered to quit France, 331. Persecution of her unabated, 335. She accompanies M. de Montmorency in a tour through Switzerland, 336. Madame Recamier banished for having spent a few hours with her, 336. M. Rocca, a young Spanish officer in the French army, wounded, visits Geneva, 337. Falls in love, 337. Madame de Staël marries him, 338. She escapes from Coppet, 338. Journey through Austria, Poland, Russia, and Sweden, to England, 338. 339. Admired by the English, 339. Louis XVIII. repays to her two millions which her father had generously advanced to Louis XVI., 339. Lord Byron thought likely to marry Albertine de Staël, her daughter, 339. Byron living at Diodati visits at Coppet, 310. Her daughter marries the duke de Broglie, 310. Madame de Staël's piety, 341. Her remark upon life, 341. Her resignation in sickness, 341. Her death in Paris, aged nearly fifty-two, 341. M. Rocca survived his wife but a few months, 341. She had many enemies, the result sometimes of envy of merit, 342. Her love of France, 342. Chateaubriand's opinion of her, 343. Interest of her works, 343.

Stanislas, king of Poland, II. 49. 51.

Sterne, Laurence, his "Tristram Shandy" resembles "Rabelais," I. 37.

St. Evremond, M. de, I. 57.

St. Pierre, M. Bernardin de, II. 128. His account of J. J. Rousseau, 167.

St.Pierre, abbé de St., II. 139.

Sully, duke of, I. 41. His administration, 64.

Sully, duke of, a warm friend of Voltaire, II. 17.

Swift, dean, his "Gulliver," and "Tale of a Tub," I. 36.

T.

"Tartuffe, Le," of Molière, I. 119. Application of the character to the bishop of Autun, 147.

Tellier, Le, secretary of state, I. 222. 224.

Tellier, archbishop of Rheims, I. 339, n.

Tencin, cardinal, II. 71. 74.

Terence, comedies of, I. 153. 155.

Theatre, French, mysteries and moralities preceded the regular drama, I. 41. Indebted to Spanish dramatists, 41. "Mélite," by Corneille, 42. Dramas of Hardy, 41. 42. Of cardinal de Richelieu, 41. 43. Theatre in the cardinal's palace, 43. "Sophonisba" of Mairet, 44. Plays of Corneille critically examined, 45-59. His "Essais sur le Théâtre," 54. Voltaire's rules for French diction in tragedy, 61. Corneille's style, 62. Molière's first comedy of "L'Etourdi," 103. His "Le Dépit Amoureux," 103. Farcical interludes of merit by Molière, 105. These form the groundwork of his best comedies, 105. Theatres of Paris in the time of Molière, 106. 304. Racine's comedy of "Les Plaideurs," 310. Voltaire's "Œdipe" and numerous dramas, II. 15. _et seq._

Thianges, madame de, I. 278.

Thiers, M., his "History of the French Revolution," II. 273.

Thiriot, M., early companion of Voltaire, II. 9. 16. 32. 107.

Thomas, M., French writer and poet, II. 171.

Thou, De; president, his opinion of Rabelais, I. 33.

Tiraqueau, André, French magistrate, letter of Rabelais to, I. 25. 26.

Torricelli, mathematician, I. 192.

Tory, Geoffry, the "Champ Fleury" of, I. 31.

Toulouse, judgments by the parliament of, II. 79. 83.

Tragedy, French, Pierre Corneille, the father of. I. 40-62. Thomas Corneille's plays, 56. Racine's tragedies, 58. Voltaire's Commentary on Corneille, 45, n. 61. Voltaire's tragedies, II. 15. 19. 22. 25. 45, &c.

Tronchin, Dr., of Geneva, II. 72. 81. 106. 299.

Turenne, marshal de, serves in conjunction with Condé at Rocroi, I. 67. Gives battle to the prince of Condé, 83.; and defeats him, 81. His death, 241.

Turgot, M., finance minister, II. 100. 101. 178.

Turlupin, French comedian in Molière's time, I. 101.

U.

Unity of time in dramatic works, critique on the, I. 45. 49. 52.

V.

Vallière, mademoiselle de la, favourite of Louis XIV., I. 112. 119. 162. 225. 236.

Vega, Lope de, his "Verdad Sospechosa," I. 51. 102.

Vendôme, duke of, II. 6.

Versoi, village of, II. 100.

Verville, Béroalde de, his "Moyen de Parvenir," I. 36.

Victoire, the abbé de la, I. 263.

Villars, maréchale, de, II. 17.

Villars, duchess de, II. 9. 45.

Villette, M. and madame de, II. 102.

Virgil, extraordinary commentary on a line of, II. 144.

Vitart, M., uncle of Jean Racine, I. 301.

Voiture, his poetry addressed to Julie d'Angennes, I. 108. Fabulous adventure in punishment of his insolence towards her, 108. Is styled _Alcovist_, 109. His conceits, 153. Anecdote relative to, 159.

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, observations of, I. 30. His pillage of Rabelais, 34. His Commentary on the "Cid," 45, n. 61. Patronises a lady descended from the daughter of Corneille, 61. His observation on the duke of Rochefoucauld's "Maxims," 63. His opinion of Molière, 146. On Pascal, 203, n. Of madame de Sévigné, 255. His censure of Boileau, 264, n. His "Siècle de Louis XIV.," 345, n. His letters, II. 1. His infidel principles, 2. Distinction between Christianity and that religion known as the church of Rome, 2. His birth in 1694, 4. Educated in the college of Louis-le-Grand, 5. Introduced to Parisian society, 6. His love for mademoiselle du Noyer, 8. His reconciliation with his father, M. Arouet, 9. Is placed as pupil with M. Alain, attorney, 9. Is enamoured with madame de Villars, 9. He visits M. de Caumartin, 10. His return to Paris, the duke of Orléans being regent, 11. Is sent to the Bastille for verses imputed to him, 11. Liberated on the mistake being proved, 11. Writes the "Henriade," 12. Its interest, 14. His tragedy of "Œdipus." 15. 19. His mode of life, 16. Visits the châteaux of the nobility, 16. Has the small-pox, 16. His tragedy of "Mariamne," 16. Visits Holland, 17. His quarrel with J. J. Rousseau, 17. Is insulted by Chev. de Rohan, challenges him; but is sent to the Bastille, banished, and visits England, 18. Studies Locke and Newton, 18. An edition of the "Henriade," in London, enriches him, 19. 20. Returns to Paris, 19. Success of his tragedies, 19. The priests detest him, 19. Acquires some wealth by his pen and by inheritance, 20. Purchases the estate of Voltaire, and assumes that name, 21. His attachment for madame du Châtelet, 21. His "Brutus" and "Eryphile" unsuccessful tragedies, 22. Pathos of his "Zaire," 22. Rapidly composed, 22. Its success, 22. Increase of his fame, 22. His "Charles XII.," 23. "Siècle de Louis XIV.," 23. 25. 30. 60. 64. Is constrained to withdraw into Normandy, having offended the clergy, 64. His "Lettres sur les Anglais," 64. Lettre de cachet issued against him for that publication, 24. 32. Conceals himself at the marquis du Châtelet's in Champagne, 32. His "Mérope," "Mahomet," &c., 25. He acts in a private theatre, 25. Writes the "Pucelle d'Orléans," 25. 28. 33. Revisits Cirey and the marquis du Châtelet, 26. 28. His conduct towards madame de Graffigny, 33. His "Correspondence" with Frederic the Great, 35. 37. The poet and king flatter and quarrel, 36. Visits Frederic in Germany, 39. "Mahomet" performed at Lille, 43. Desires a seat in the French Academy, 44. 56. Cabal to oppose him, 45. Success of his "Mérope," 45. Is sent to the Hague and to Berlin as an envoy from Louis XV., 46. He returns to France, 47. Visits the duchess du Maine, and writes "Zadig," 48. Acts at Sceaux the part of Cicero in his "Rome Sauvée," 48. He visits king Stanislas at Luneville, 49. 51. His "Semiramis," 49. Ill of fever at Chalons, 50. "Catiline," 51. He settles in Paris, and receives his niece madame Denis to preside in his house, 55. 55. Private theatre in his house, 55. Account of Voltaire by Le Kain, 54. Visits Frederic at Potsdam, 57. Is appointed chamberlain by that monarch, 58. A pension granted him, 59. Discontents, 61. Frederic requiring a strict attention to his injunctions, 69. Voltaire rendered suspicious, 63. Becomes indignant, 66. Satirizes Maupertuis, 66. 67. His amicable interview with the monarch, 68. He repairs to Saxe Gotha, 69. Meets madame Denis at Frankfort, 69. Is arrested, 69. Letter of the king, 70. 71, n. His journey to Lyons, 71. Consults Dr. Tronchin at Geneva on his health, 72. Purchases a house near Geneva named "Les Delices," 71. 74. Composes tragedies, and writes "Candide," 74. His "Manners and Spirit of Nations," 74. Some dangers impend over him, 75. Force of his satire, 75. His château of Ferney on the borders of France and Geneva, 76. The "Encyclopédie," begun by Diderot and d'Alembert, 77. Voltaire writes some literary articles for it, 77. Case of Jean Calas, broken on the wheel on a false accusation, 79. Voltaire succeeds in proving his innocence, 81. Exculpation and relief of the surviving family, 82. Case of the Sirven family, 83. Case of the chevalier de la Barre, 84. Heaps ridicule on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 88. His conversation delightful, 90. Visited by Marmontel, 91. By the countess de Genlis, 94. Attempted persecution of, by the bishop of the diocese, 99. Residence of Voltaire, through his active spirit of charity and improvement, a blessing to the district, 100. He repairs to Paris in 1788, 102. His tragedy of "Irene," 103. Honourable reception of the poet, 103. His profession of faith, 104. His death, 106. His friendly and forgiving nature, 107. Criticism on his works, 109. His plays, 109. Was visited at Ferney by Condorcet and d'Alembert, 176.

W.

Wagner, M., secretary of Voltaire, II. 105.

Walpole, Horace, his fictitious letter on the subject of Rousseau, II. 159. 161. His contempt of Rousseau, 164.

Warens, countess de, II. 117. Her history told by Jean Jacques Rousseau, 117-128. 137.

Winterfeld, baron de, II. 9.

Winterfeld, baroness de, formerly Mlle. du Noyer, II. 8. 9.

Wycherly, his comedy, "The Country Girl," imitated from Molière, I. 117.

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TABLE,

ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,

TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF

LIVES OF

EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.

DANTE ALEGHIERI.

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