Note 176 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP

This English version has been ascribed to Sir Roger Manley by his daughter, Mrs. Manley; but it is now “practically certain ... that the first volume of the Letters was composed, not by Manley, but by Marana; and it is at least very probable that the Italian was the author of the remainder of the work.” J. M. Rigg in the Dictionary of National Biography, article “Robert Midgley” (1653–1723). For title of this English version, cf. App. B, I., No. 1, p. 267.