Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
“For heaven’s sake send me by the bearer, and
you shall have them returned to-morrow, all the numbers of the N. M. M. in which I wrote, but more
particularly all those in which I wrote about Pietro delle Vigne, and Guido Cavalcanti, and if you
have any remaining proofs of the article of Sordelle, or my French MS., or that
of your own translation of the Sappho, send it to me.
“Do not disappoint me, because I depend on those
articles for some quotations—good bye.
“The bearer will wait for an answer. Forgive the
dictation of my letter, because I am sitting for my portrait before M. Pistrucchi, poet and painter. If you wish
to hear his improvisations, you must come this evening to tea at eight
o’clock,
“Yours faithfully,
Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827)
Italian poet and critic who settled in London in 1816 where he contributed essays on
Italian literature to the
Edinburgh and
Quarterly
Reviews.
Filippo Pistrucci (1777 c.-1857)
Born in Rome, he was a painter, writer, and friend of the Rosettis in London.
Cyrus Redding (1785-1870)
English journalist; he was a founding member of the Plymouth Institute, edited
Galignani's Messenger from 1815-18, and was the effective editor of
the
New Monthly Magazine (1821-30) and
The
Metropolitan (1831-33).
New Monthly Magazine. (1814-1884). Founded in reaction to the radically-inclined
Monthly Magazine,
the
New Monthly was managed under the proprietorship of Henry
Colburn from 1814 to 1845. It was edited by Thomas Campbell and Cyrus Redding from
1821-1830.