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274 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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—«B » A. Decade Of Italian Women. By T. ...
Mri . Trollope indulges in one long sneer from beginning to end ; whet Adol h er us the Trollop subje ct pro cuts tern Ms , be jok vice e or or has virtue his , Christianit fling , and y or at creed times s ,
indul p ging in a bad imitation , cuts a Carlyle caper wholly devoid of the verve and grace of the original . What can be said for the taste
and feeling with which the following anecdote of Celio Secondo Curione is set forth ?
and " Having of certain become of the wholl writings y alienated of Melanethon from Home , he by was the about study escap of the ing Bible into , into bthe Bishof
Ivrea Grermany . At , when the intercession he was arrested of a relative and thrown he was released prison y on condition op of and entering the Church a monastery irreparable . There , by an he act finall of y audacity , made the which breach seems , between to have himself been effectthan to
bring more calculated about any useful to produce result a . theatrical Having quietl and y ep one igrammatic day removed the , relics from lace the thus high indicating altar of the more convent significantl church , he probabl installed than the he Bible intended in their the
tendency p , of the new Church , then spring y ing into existence y , to substitute , a new equall idolatry y destined , less to gross impede perhaps for long than ages that the progress which it of strove mankind to supp to lant a hi , g but her
and purer theology . " In the preface to these two volumes , the author disclaims any
" ' the intention woman ' of s question dogmatising , " and , or affects even the indul most ging impartial in speculations consideration on
of each character , and the peculiar phases of social life and civilization which tended to form and develop it . Yet somehow there
is scarcely one among this decade of Italian women whose character is not left a shade "blacker for having passed through the hands of
Mr . _Trollope . Even Tittoria Colonna , that unimpeachable maiden , wifeand widowwhose good fame neither friends , enemies , nor
chroniclers , have , breathed a word to tarnish , after a lapse of nearly four centuries , is called in question by the candid and impartial
biographer before us-,- her devotion as a wife ridiculed , her sincerity as a loving and faithful-hearted woman blown to the winds .
seventeen " In considering sonnetsfrom , " says which Mr . the Trollope above , " specimen the collection s have of been one selected hundred , and and
which were probabl , y the product of about seven or eight years , from 1533-4 to death 1542 should , ( in one have she broug laments ht with that it no the alleviation seventh year of her from grief her ) husband the most ' s
, interesting question that suggests itself is , —whether we are to suppose the rather sentiments to consider expressed them in all them as part to be of genuine the professional outpourings equipment of the of heart a poet , or
, earnest only in the work of achieving a high and brilliant poetical reputation ?" Which question , after some one-sided arguments , according to the
manner of impartial historians working up to a certain pre-conceived point in their own minds , and a very noble passage upon woman ' s
love , Adolphus Trollope thus answers :
was master c ' She almost , Petrarch was exclusivel probabl , in y Ms y about Petrarchist adoration as much of ; and in Laura earnest the . . abounding The as was poetical her Castaliah mode great of model fount the and day of
274 Notices Of Books.
274 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/58/
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