E se dai tuoi flagelli aspri ed amari
Alcun percosso esclamerà, suo danno;
Dalle voci d'un solo il resto impari.
Sì che la rabbia e il concepito affanno
Farà dire a costoro in tuo disprezzo
Quanto inventar, quanto sognar sapranno.
SALVATOR ROSA.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1837.

ADVERTISEMENT

то THE READER.

In compliance with the very admirable practice now generally adopted, I might, by means of preparatory puff-paragraphs, have assured the public that "People ask each other whether the book is not by far too strong in many parts, and likely to give great offence, as maliciously quizzical upon several individuals.”

This, I say, I might have done, it being no more than what is done every day; and a very honest piece of humbug it is, because it is instantly perceived that people are not likely to know much of a book before it is published. In such cases, therefore, "people" must be understood to refer to the compositors and printers' devils, who are the sole persons behind