The Analectic Magazine
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ISBN13: 9781458859969
Paperback|9781458859969
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ited the wealth and the name of that powerful family, which, during the middle ages, made themselves masters of Bologna, and alarmed the princes of Italy, was the coteraporary, and, it may be said, the rival of Alfieri. He wrote tragedies, he wrote comedies; both the one and the other were applauded on the stage; both the one and the other now slumber in the libraries. He aspired to the invention of a new drama, which he thought Shaksperian, and which he called Fisedia?a compliment to our poet, and a tacit reproof to all other writers for the stage, from jschy- las downwards. His Representation of JVnlurf pleased both the people and the actors, but never came to a second edition. Like Alfieri, he also was passionately fond of horses, and he was bolder than our poet, for he drove a Roman car, a quadriga, at full gallop over the ascents and descents of the Appe- nines. He built a theatre for the representation of his own tragedies; he founded the magnificent printing press at Venice, from which, under the name of the Tipografia Pepoliana, have issued many works, and particularly several editions of the Italian historians. His daily occupations were divided, with a scrupulosity which they hardly merited, between his studies, his horses, and his table. His guests consisted of men of letters, of buffoons, of people of fashion, and of parasites. His nights were devoted to the pursuits of gallantry, in which he was sufficiently successful; for he was handsome and he was rich. His amours were occasionally postponed for his billiards, at which he lost large sums of money, in the pursuit of an excellence which he would fain have attained at all games of skill. His great ambition was to be the first runner in Italy, and he died in 1796, before he was forty, of a pulmonary complaint, which b...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458859969 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458859967 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $35.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 324 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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