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234. _Though Mr. Hobhouse has written Annotations._ John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gifford (1786–1869). See his _Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of ‘Childe Harold,’ containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome_, PAGE

_and an Essay on Italian Literature_, 1818, and the Notes to the Canto in Byron’s Poetical Works.

234. _He hears it not._ Byron, _Childe Harold_, IV. cxli. with sundry alterations.

236. _So sit two Kings of Brentford._ Cowper, _The Task_, I. 78.

237. _Youthful poets dream of_ [fancy] _when they love_. Rowe’s _Fair Penitent_, Act III. Sc. 1.

_Julia de Roubigne._ A novel by Henry Mackenzie, the ‘Man of Feeling,’ (1745–1831), published 1777.

_Miss Milner._ The heroine of Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald’s (1753–1821) novel, _A Simple Story_ (1791).

238. _Guercino._ See _ante_, note to p. 25.

_Garofolo._ Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofolo from his birth-place (1481–1559). His best works are to be seen at Ferrara.

239. _Gaspar Poussin._ See _ante_, note to p. 14.

_Ariosto._ Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), the author of _Orlando Furioso._

_Pietro da Cartona._ Pietro Berrettini of Cartoni (1596–1669). The ceiling of the grand saloon of the Palazzo Barberini is his; it is generally recognised as one of the greatest accomplishments of decorative art.

240. _Andrea Sacchi._ A Roman painter (d. 1661). His greatest work is the ‘St. Romuald with his Monks’ in the Vatican.

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