Memoirs of Silvio Pellico
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Excerpt from Memoirs of Silvio Pellico: Or My Prisons Silvio Pellico, a distinguished Italian poet, was born in the year 1789, at Saluces, in Piedmont, where his father, Honorato Pellico, also a poet, held a situation in the post-office. Notwithstanding a sickly infancy, the love of poetry early took possession of his soul. He was a poet, so to speak, from his cradle: at ten he had composed a tragedy. He had an emulous companion in his classical studies, in his elder brother, Luigi, who has since become a distinguished comic poet. Both having, at an early age, evinced a genius for dramatic composition, their father encouraged its development by arranging the scenes which they composed, and aiding them in the construction of a little stage, where they recited their effusions. Silvio removed with his father to Turin, where he pursued his studies with promising success, and where his taste for letters became more decidedly manifest. Here he is said to have formed an attachment with a young lady; but Providence saw fit to remove, by an early death, the object of his affection. This was his first love, and his first sorrow; the remembrance of which, his after sufferings were! never able to obliterate. At the age of sixteen, he accompanied his mother to Lyons, where he resided four years with a wealthy cousin of hers, dividing his time between a refined and elegant society and the study of those beautiful productions of genius with which the French literature abounds. But, suddenly seized with what is called le mal du pays, occasioned by reading a new poem by Foscolo, The Tombs, he felt an irresistible attraction towards the land of his birth, and a few days after was on his road to Italy. Settling at Milan, he established there his reputation as a poet. By his merit and amiable manners, he gained access to the house of Count Briche, who entrusted to him the education of one of his sons. He afterwards became tutor to the two sons of Count Porro Lambertenghi, with whom he lived on a footing of great intimacy. The house of the latter was, at that time, the rendezvous of all the distinguished characters of Milan, as well as of many strangers of distinction. There Silvio met Byron, Madame de Stael, Davis, Schlegel, Brougham, and many other renowned personages, who passed through this city from all parts of Europe. In 1819, he published the tragedy of Francesca da Rimini, the brilliant success of which placed him at once in the highest rank of the dramatic poets of that day. His translation of Manfred appeared the same year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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