Note 163 — ALPINE SCENERY. A POEM. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGWICK WHALLEY, DURING HIS RESIDENCE ON THE CONTINENT, IN 1785.
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l. 19. Proud Sommane—The Chateau de Sommane. It stands on the right-hand side of the valley, and was once the habitation of Laura. It still belongs to her direct descendants, and was lately inhabited by the learned and ingenious Abbé de Sade, who, some years since, published the voluminous history of Petrarch and Laura, the Abbé’s ancestress. From this work Mrs Dobson formed her valuable abridgement.