. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... ht to stigmatizehim as an enemy to the freedom of his country. Theauthority which he enjoyed was the same which his an-cestors had enjoyed, without injury to the republic, fornearly a century, and had descended to him as insepa-rable from the wealth, the respectability, and the pow-erful foreign connections of his family. The superiorityof his talents enabled him to avail himself of these ad-van
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... ht to stigmatizehim as an enemy to the freedom of his country. Theauthority which he enjoyed was the same which his an-cestors had enjoyed, without injury to the republic, fornearly a century, and had descended to him as insepa-rable from the wealth, the respectability, and the pow-erful foreign connections of his family. The superiorityof his talents enabled him to avail himself of these ad-vantages with irresistible effect; but history suggestsnot an instance in which they were devoted to anyother purpose than that of promoting the honor and in-dependence of the Tuscan state. It was not by the con-tinuance, but by the dereliction of the system which hehad established, and to which he adhered to the close ofhis life, that the Florentine republic sank under the de-grading yoke of despotic power ; and to his prematuredeath we may unquestionably attribute not only the de-struction of the commonwealth, but all the calamitiesthat Italy soon afterward sustained.—Life of Lorenzode ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel, an Englishpainter and poet, born in London, May 12, 1828;died at Birchington-on-Sea, on Easter Day, April9, 1882. He studied art, and became one of thefounders of the Pre-Raphaelite school of paint-ing, and was noted for the imaginative characterof his designs, and for the exquisiteness of hiscoloring. Among his paintings are illustrationsof Tennysons poems: The GirlJiood of the Virgin(1849); Dantes Dream on the Day of the DeatJi ofBeatrice (1858); FairRosamoiid (i860). He pub-lished The Early Italian Poets, being translationsfrom Dante and his predecessors (1861); The BlessedDamozel (1870); Dante and His Circle (1874), andtwo volumes of Ballads and Sonnets, including hisseries of one hundred sonnets called The House ofLife, the last about a year before his deat
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