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206.: BEOLCHI'S SAGGIO DI POESIE ITALIANE EXAMINER, 26 MAY, 1833, P. 326 - The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II

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206.: BEOLCHI’S SAGGIO DI POESIE ITALIANE EXAMINER, 26 MAY, 1833, P. 326 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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BEOLCHI’S SAGGIO DI POESIE ITALIANE

EXAMINER, 26 MAY, 1833, P. 326

Mill here calls attention to a fellow radical, Carlo Beolchi (1796-1867), who was exiled for his part in the Piedmontese revolutionary movement, and taught Italian in London. The review, in the “Literary Examiner,” is headed “Saggio di Poesie Italiane, scelte da Carlo Beolchi, LL.D. Con notizie interno alla vita ed alle opere degli autori. Rolandi, Berners-street. [1833.]” This is the 2nd ed.; the 1st ed. (London: Rolandi, 1825) was entitled Saggio della poesia italiana. It is described in Mill’s bibliography as “A short notice of a selection of Italian Poetry by Signor Beolchi, in the Examiner of 26th May 1833” (MacMinn, p. 26). In the Somerville College set of the Examiner, it is listed as “Notice of Beolchi’s Saggio di Poesie Italiane” and enclosed in square brackets, with one correction: in the heading “auiori” is corrected to “autori”.

this little selection of Italian poetry deserves to be recommended for this reason—that Mr. Beolchi has not, as such compilers generally do, contented himself with reprinting poems and passages of poems, which every one is familiar with, but has chosen for himself; selecting in preference the less known and less hacknied productions of the various writers. He has also included in his choice, specimens of the best Italian poets of the present age, some of whom are not unworthy of the better times of their country: Manzoni, Monti, Foscolo, Pindemonte, Rossetti, and others.¹

[1 ]Alessandro Manzoni (1784-1873), author of the romance, I promessi sposi, and two tragedies, Il conte di Carmagnola e l’Adelchi and Degl’inni sacri; Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828), translator of Homer’s Iliad and author of Proposta per la riforma del dizionario della Crusca; Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), author of the novel, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis; Ippolito Pindemonte (1753-1828), author of Poesie Campestri and translator of Homer’s Odyssey; Gabrieli Rossetti (1783-1854), Carbonaro, refugee in London, Professor of Italian at King’s College, London, author of La potenza di dio.