Note 272 — Chapter VII · THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE
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Buratti’s after-life brought him once into relation with Byron. On the birth of a son to Hoppner, the British Consul at Venice, Byron presented the father with a short madrigal:—
“His father’s sense, his mother’s grace, In him, I hope, will always fit so; With—still to keep him in good case— The health and appetite of Rizzo.”
The Count Rizzo Pattarol, named in the last line, had the verses translated into several languages, in the Italian version changing the word “appetite” to “buonomore.” This piece of vanity so excited the mirth of Buratti that he commemorated the affair in an epigram. Byron, however, seems to have paid no attention to the incident.