Note 10 — GABRIELE ROSSETTI
William Michael Rossetti translation
This vigorous tirade against the mighty Napoleon, written in Rossetti’s old age, is no doubt a true expression of his reasoned opinion, but only of one side of that. It should not be supposed that he was really blind to the enormous and many-sided genius of the man; if he condemned, he also most sincerely admired. See the sonnet at p. 191.—W.