Скачать книгу

much information, either wholly new, or hitherto little known.

      BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. [24]

       Table of Contents

      Luigi Lanzi was born in the year 1732, at Monte dell' Olmo, in the diocese of Fermo, of an ancient family, which is said to have enjoyed some of the chief honours of the municipality to which it belonged. His father was a physician, and also a man of letters: his mother, a truly excellent and pious woman, was allied to the family of the Firmani. How deeply sensible the subject of this memoir was of the advantages he derived, in common with many illustrious characters, from early maternal precepts and direction, he has shewn in a beautiful Latin elegy to her memory, which appeared in his work, entitled Inscriptionum et Carminum.

      Possessed of a naturally lively and penetrating turn of mind, he began early to investigate the merits of the great writers of his own country;

Скачать книгу