>I have come across the following work:
>Memorie di un soldato ossia rimembranze di una campagna nei Pirinei negli
>anni 1813-1814 di Roberto Southey poeta laureato d'Inghilterra. Prima
>versione dall'inglese. Milano, Presso la ditta A. F. Stella e Figli.
>The problem is that British Library staff have been unable to trace any
>such work by Southey, but it reads as though it were an original English
>work.
>Any suggestions?
>Brian Moloney
>
>
Dear Brian,
I am way out of my field when it comes to English Romantics or
proto-Romantics, but given the author's fame it seems not very likely that
somebody should have dared to publish a faked journal under his name.
Southey himself had published similar accounts of his travels to various
other countries, though not the one in question, as far as I know. Maybe
your Italian translation is based on one of his autobiographic manuscripts
which are in part still unpublished. Some places to check for more precise
info are:
SOUTHEY Charles Cuthbert
The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey. Edited by his
son..., London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1849-50,
6 vol.
HALLER William
The Early Life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803. 1917, repr.
New York: Octagon Books, 1966
KENNETH Curry
Robert Southey: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977,
xx+95 pp.
BRITTON Jane
Catalogue of the Bertram R. Davis 'Robert Southey' Collec-
tion, compiled by Jane Britton, with forewords by Kenneth
Curry and Warren Ober, Waterloo (Ont.): University of Water-
loo Library, 1990 (= University of Waterloo Library Biblio-
graphy, 18), xix+255 pp.
STOREY Mark
Robert Southey: A Life. Oxford/New York: Oxford UP, 1997
Please let us know what you find!
Otfried
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