Note 35 — GABRIELE ROSSETTI

This pæan may seem misapplied, considering the rapid collapse of the Neapolitan emancipation of 1820. That movement was, however, the first awakening of the Italian national sentiment since 1815, and in 1859 (though Gabriele Rossetti did not live to see it) the great cause had triumphed. Readers may recollect that Shelley’s Ode to Naples celebrates in exalted terms these same events of 1820.—W.