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ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
A.
Page
1780.
1779.
1787.
1793.
1797.
1799.
Early Boyhood of Monti - - *305
Anecdote of him _ *306
His Studies at Faenza - 307
Destined by his Father to Agricultural Labour; his Dislike ofthis Occupation - - 307
Ineffectual Attempts of bis Father to overcome this * 308
His first Italian Poem j he adopts Alighieri as his Model * 308His “ Vision of Ezekiel ** - - -308
Cardinal Borghese takes Monti under his Protection; heaccompanies the Cardinal to Rome - - * 309
The Arcadians of the Bosco Parrasio celebrate the Quinquenalliof Pius VI. - - - * 309
Monti made Secretary to the Duke of Braschi - - 309
His want of political Integrity - - -310
His Ode on the Marriage of the Duke of Braschi - 311
His Ambition excited by the Emulation inspired by Alfieri * 311His “ Aristodemo ” acted at Rome with great Success -312
Plot of this Tragedy - - - 312
Marriage of Monti - - 313
Hugh Basseville - ... 314
Sent by the French to spread their Revolutionary Tenetsbeyond the Alps - - - - 314
His History of the French Revolution » - 315
His Assassination - • - 315
(January 19th.) Louis XVI . beheaded - -315
Monti, his Poem, the “Basvilliana” - - 315
His Poem on the French Revolution - - *316
His Plagiarism - - 316
Spread of French Republicanism - - 317
Defeat of the Austrians ... 317
(January 3d.) Cisalpine Republic erected - - 318
Monti meets General Marmont at Rome • - 318
He proceeds with him to Florence « - 318
Monti, his Admiration of Napoleon - - 318
Made Secretary of Foreign Affairs at Milan - » 319
He suffers Persecution - .. 319
A Law passed by the Cisalpine Republic - - 319
Monti loses his Situation in consequence - - 319
His “ Musogonia ” - • -319
Subject of his Poem entitled “ Prometeo” - - 320
He obtains the Professor’s Chair of Belles Lettres in Brers • 321
Suvaroff and the Austrians drive the French from Italy - 321
End of the Italian Republics ... * 321
Deplorable Destitution of Monti during his Exile - - 321
Goes to Paris on the Invitation of Mareschalchi - - 322
He composes a Hymn and an Ode on the Victory of Marengo - 322He returns to Italy - - - - 323
His Poem, the “ Mascheroniana,’* * . * 823