to him that he had ‘an ear in the pit of his stomach,’ and indeed noise had taken, and continued to take as his illness increased, as it were in some féerie at once absurd and fatal, the character of a persecution of the things and surroundings of his life… During the last years of his life he suffered from noise as from a brutal physical touch… This persecution by noise led my brother to sketch a gloomy story during his nightly insomnia… In this story a man was eternally pursued by noise, and leaves the rooms he had rented, the houses he had bought, the forests in which he had camped, forests like Fontainebleau, from which he is driven by the hunter’s horn, the interior of the pyramids, in which he was deafened by the crickets, always seeking silence, and at last killing himself for the sake of the silence of supreme repose, and not finding it then, for the noise of the worms in his grave prevented him from sleeping. Oh, noise, noise, noise! I can no longer bear to hear the birds. I begin to cry to them like Débureau to the nightingale, ‘Will you not be still, vile beast?’ ” (Lettres de Jules de Goncourt, Paris, 1885.)
71
Étude sur Gustave Flaubert, Paris, 1885.
72
Among the fragments that have been preserved some are of great sweetness: —
“Quanto fu dolce il giogo e la catenaDe’ suoi candidi bracci al col mio volte,Che sciogliendomi io sento mortal pena;D’altre cose non dico che son molte,Chè soverchia dolcezza a morte mena.”
73
Mantegazza, Del Nervosismo dei grandi uomini, 1881.
74
Journal des Savants, Oct., 1863.
75
Epistolario, v. 3, p. 163.
76
Vicq d’Azir, Elog., p. 209.
77
Physiologie des Génies, 1875.
78
Science et Matérialisme, 1890, p. 103.
79
Brewster, Life, 1856.
80
Revue Scientifique, 1888.
81
Michiels, Le Monde du Comique, 1886.
82
Réveillé-Parise, op. cit.
83
Perez, L’enfant de trois à sept ans, 1886.
84
Scherer, Diderot, 1880.
85
Ueber die Verwandtschaft des Genies mit dem Irrsinn, 1887.
86
Bertolotti, Il Testamento di Cardano, 1883.
87
G. Flaubert, Lettres à Georges Sand, Paris, 1885.
88
Delepierre, Histoire Littéraire des fous, Paris, 1860.
89
Réveillé-Parise, Physiologie et Hygiène des hommes livrés aux travaux de l’esprit, Paris, 1856.
90
Mantegazza, Physiognomy and Expression.
91
Arago, ii. p. 82.
92
Plutarch, Life, &c.
93
Radestock, op. cit.
94
Moreau, op. cit., p. 523.
95
Correspondance, p. 119, 1887.
96
Memorie dell Istituto Lombardo, 1878.
97
Letter to Giordani, Aug., 1817.
98
Sette Anni di Sodalizio.
99
B. de Boismont, op. cit. p. 265.
100
Hagen, Ueber die Verwandtschaft, &c., 1877.
101
Roger, Voltaire Malade, 1883.
102
G. Sand, Histoire de Ma Vie, 9.
103
Berti, p. 154.
104
Berti, Cavour Avanti il 1848, Rome; Mayor, in Archivo di Psichiatria, vol. iv.
105
Mayor, op. cit.
106
Autobiography.
107
Autobiography, p. 145.
108
Von Sedlitz, Schopenhauer, 1872.
109
Letters, 1885.
110
Histoire de Ma Vie, v. p. 9.
111
G. Sand, op. cit.
112
De Immenso et innumerat., iii.
113
G. Menke, De ciarlataneria eruditorum, 1780.
114
Revue des Deux Mondes, 1883.
115
Letters, p. 62.
116
Ibid., pp. 62, 119, 123.
117
G. Sforza, Epistolario di A. Manzoni, Milan, 1883.
118
Epistolario, 3, p. 163.
119
Correspondance, p. 119. 1887.
120
Journal de ma vie intime.
121
Souvenirs d’Enfance et de Jeunesse.
122
Amiel, Journal Intime, Geneva, 2nd ed., 1889.
123
Clément, Musiciens célèbres, Paris, 1868.
124
W. Irving, Life, 1880.
125
Verga, Lazzaretti,&c., Milan, 1880.
126
Forbes Winslow, op. cit., p. 123.
127
Forbes Winslow, op. cit., p. 126.
128
Works, vol. xxvi. p. 83.
129
Dendy, op. cit., p. 41.
130
Correspondance, vol. ii. letter 9.
131
De Factis Dictisque Memorabilibus, Lib. vi. Cap. 9.
132
Tertullian, Apologetica, p. 46. But see A. Gellii Noctes Atticæ, x. p. 17.
133
Wiederbelebung des Klassisch, Altert., 1882.
134
Pouchet, Histoire des Sciences Naturelles dans le Moyen Age, 1870.
135
Masi, La vita ed i tempi di Albergati, 1882.
136
Laura had eleven children and Petrarch himself two when he dedicated to her 294 sonnets. In politics he turned from Cola di Rienzi to his enemy Colonna and from Robert to Charles IV. (Famil, xix. 1. p. 32). He was too much occupied with himself, says Perrens, to
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