Selected Writings
- Life and Letters of Joseph Story, 1851
- Roba di Roma, London, 1863
- Proportions of the Human Figure, London, 1864
- Fiammetta, 1885 (a novel)
- Conversations in a Studio, Boston, 1890
- Excursions in Art and Letters, Boston, 1891
- His poems were collected in two volumes in 1885. Among the longer are “A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem” (a rehabilitation of Judas Iscariot), “A Jewish Rabbi in Rome,” “The Tragedy of Nero” and “Ginevra di Siena.” The last named, with “Cleopatra,” was included in his Graffiti d'Italia, a collection published in 1868.
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