The Cambridge University Press has begun to issue a series
of Cambridg3 Plain Texts in Italian, with brief introductions by Professor Thomas Okey (1s. 6d. net each). The first five are selections from Rosmini's Cinque Pia2he della Agents Chiesa, sanctioned by Pope Pius IX. but condemned by Pope Leo XIII. ; Leopardi's Pensieri ; Mazzini's famous revolutionary essay, Fed,e e Avvenire ; Alfieri's dialogue, La Virtu Sconosciuta ; and a selection from Gasparo Gozzi's La Gazzetta Veneta, a paper which he published twice a week in 1760-1. Gasparo was the elder brother of Carlo the dramatist. He offered to insert advertisements free of charge, but, in spite of his appeals, the Venetian public declined to benefit by his generosity. His light articles on various types arc amusing ; in one of them he gives a reply worthy of Solomon to a woman correspondent who asked how she could live at peace with a troublesome husband.
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