Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), November 1, 1845, vol. 2, no. 17, p. ???, col. ?

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The Medici Series of Italian Prose. The Autobiography of Alfieri. Translated and edited by C. Edwards Lester. New-York: Paine if Burgess.

The character of Alfieri, with more of passion and more of fierté, resembled very remarkably that of Benevenuto Cellini. His impulsiveness not less than his genius made him what he was — a great man. His “mission” (to use a cant term) seemed to be reform — and few more comprehensive or effective reformers ever lived. We look on his Autobiography as one of the most vivid books in existence — intensely interesting. In the volume now before us, we find it prefaced by a fine Essay on his Genius and Times, by Mr. Lester. The translation is from the Lucca edition of 1814, and seems to us particularly well done.