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ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY. **As this article will not unfrequently form one of "the characteristics of the LITERARY JOURNAL, we shall feel ourselves greatly obliged to those of our readers, who shall at any time favour us with original Memoirs of distinguished Characters. Biographical Account of the late Marquis Manara, First Minister of State in Parma; extracted from his Life, written in Italian, by Cerati, a Parmesan Nobleman. Prosper Manara was born in Borgo Taro, a small town of the dukedom of Parma, on the 14th April, 1714. He was the eldest son of Marcel, Marquis of Ozzano, of an ancient family amongst the Parmesan nobility, for many centuries past, and of a lady named Pellegrini, of birth equally illustrious, in the same province. He discovered from his infancy a remarkable vivacity of temper, and an uncommon degree of gentleness and candour; and as soon as he arrived at an age competent for a learned education, he was placed in the college of Parma, then under the protection of the public spirited princes of the illustrious house of Farnese. At college, young Manara went through all his studies with order, assiduity, and success; there also, in the earliest period of his youth, he displayed that peculiar fondness for the Belles Lettres and Fine Arts which afterwards constituted his predominant and almost exclusive passion. It should seem, that neither did his friends ever conceive the idea of educating him for the court, nor did he himself ever think of being a statesman. On quitting college, he repaired to his native place, where his father, with a view of giving him some knowledge of domestic economy, associated him in the management of his large estate, and thus gave him for some time, rather more occupation than was compatible with his literary pursuits. After his father's death he married a lady of noble birth, of the name of Antini; and soon added to his other occupations that of superintending the education of his children; for, convinced that this important object is, from nature and from religion, the immediate duty of parents, he did not choose to delegate it to the established routine of the schools. In these sober, virtuous, and truly exemplary occupations, he had spent almost fifteen years of the best part of his life; and still continued to reside on his manor of Borgo Taro, when he met with one of those misfortunes which too commonly befall the inhabitants of countries at war. The French troops, under the command of the duke of Boufflers, on making an inroad into Borgo Taro, levied an enormeus contribution upon it, and took, as hostages to Genoa, some of its most distinguished inhabitants, among whom were the Marquis Prosper and his brothers; but happily for him and his fellow-prisoners, the newly appointed French commander, the marechal duke of Richelieu, became sensible of the injustice, and did not suffer them to remain in captivity. It was during his residence in Borgo Taro that Mr. Manara gave the first specimen of his talents in painting and poetry. His performances, in the former art, were not numerous, and only intended as presents to his friends. There still exist, in the royal country-seat of Colorno, and in a neighbouring church, some pieces of his, which, although neither very excellent, nor capable of sustaining a competition with those of his contemporary artists in Italy, bespeak nevertheless a great capacity and considerable taste, and enable the connoisseur to judge of what he might have done in that pursuit, if it had been the favourite one. In poetry he reached the highest degree of merit, and seemed to have well availed himself of those favourable circumstances which the spirit of the age had introduced. The abbé Frugoni was then one of the most conspicuous leaders of the new poetical band; and having fixed his residence at Parma, he naturally became, in that small metropolis, the head of a school, in which, by exploding the frequent antitheses, the inflation of style, the wantonness of conceits, and the gigantic strains of imagination, he introduced an easy, regular, descriptive, sentimental and elegant poesy, and what was more remarkable, gave to blank verse a strength and harmony till then unknown. Mr. Manara, although a professed admirer of Frugoni and his disciples, did not choose to be of their number as far as regarded their enthusiasm, imagery, rapidity of thoughts, and luxury of versification. He was conscious that his own poetical fire was like his temper, endowed with gentleness and sensibility;-he seemed to have considered it as a subtle electric fluid, which, in its casual passage from the heart to the mind, would excite fine little images, amiable and tender conceptions, and gentle and refined sentiments, which, if clothed in neat and elegant expression, could not fail to produce pleasure in the readers, without giving them any suspicion of a laboured design. It was with this spirit that he wrote those elegant eclogues, which soon proved rivals to the pastoral songs of the celebrated Pompei; and in the opinion of the best judges, united the flowing style of Virgil with the graces of Anacreon. His sonnets too, though not numerous, might be put in competition with those of Petrarch. During his retreat also, he wrote his very excellent translation of the Bucolics of Virgil. There is some reason to think that he felt some sympathy between his own mind and that of the immortal Latin poet; this, however, regarded those powers only by which he instructed the labourer in the precepts of his useful art, or related the innocent amours and the rustic disputes of young shepherds. It was with this dispo sition that he undertook his translation; and his exertions were crowned with greater success than he perhaps expected. It was soon decided that his performance surpassed any other of the kind, and preclu ded any similar attempt for the future. It displayed taste, elocution, harmony, and such an happy substitution of the Italian for the Latin graces as to give it the double appearance of a faithful translation and an original composition. It rapidly went through several editions, and raised the name of the author to the first rank among his contemporaries in the art of poetry. In the year 1749, and the 35th of his age, Manara was called to town by his sovereign, and the place to which he was appointed, the first he had filled at court, was admirably adapted to his temper. No sooner had the high-spirited Infant Don Philip become the pacific possessor of that principality, than he thought of reviving the languid progress of scien tific and literary pursuits; and instituted that famous academy of arts, which, except those of Rome and Bologna, was soon accounted the best in Italy. He himself was appointed academician and counsellor invested with a vote; and he greatly distinguished himself, as might be expected, in the sessions of the society, and in the annual speeches on the solemn distribution of its premiums. The first minister of state, marquis of Felin, a man of great discernment and sagacity, was not long in perceiving that Manara, by his uncommon abilities, was entitled to higher honours and employments at court. Accordingly, in the year 1760, he appointed | him a chamberlain of the royal house, and soon after, superintendant of the newly projected high road, through that lofty branch of the Appennines, which connects the Ligurian with the Parmesan dominions. From that time he continued to enjoy great favour and consideration at court, and was gradually promoted to more conspicuous and important places. He succeeded the abbé de Condillac in the education of the young Infant (his late Royal Highness) Ferdinand, and acquitted himself of this task to the complete satisfaction of his friends and countrymen. The amiable prince himself was so duly sensible of his services in this respect that he rewarded him with an extraordinary pension for life and with the eminent dignity of first chamberlain of his royal family. a charge utterly incompatible with his literary avocations, as it deprived him of any tolerable degree of leisure; being in 1779 appointed tutor to the Infant Hereditary Prince, Don Luigi, the late King of Etruria. He was not, however, suffered to remain long in this employment, being, before the expiration of three years, appointed minister of state ! It is justice to say that he did whatever was in his power to decline this new burthen at the then advanced period of his life. He justly thought that a man like him, always addicted to quiet study and tranquil pursuits, even with the highest intelligence and the best intentions, would be unequal to those bustling occupations, rapid discussions, and prompt exertions which are the natural attendants of state business. As however his remonstrances proved vain, he made a sacrifice of himself to his sovereign, and devotedly submitted to the new burthen. He bore it certainly with his characteristic disinterestedness, sobriety and patriotic spirit; but his age being really too much advanced to suffer him to continue this service long, he solicited, and obtained from his sovereign per mission to retire. His retreat was attended by the warmest mark of good will from the court, by all the honours suitable to his station, by an additional pension, and, to crown the whole, by the highest esteem and respect of the princes and their subjects. We cannot help expressing our admiration for the subject of this memoir, whilst we mention that, soon after his retreat from the ministry, though he had already reached the 69th year of his age, he thought of bestowing his now uninterrupted leisure on the translation of the other two books of the Georgics, a From the year 1707 to 1781 his farther advance- performance for which, owing to his past occupations, ments were so rapid that we can only slightly glance no hopes perhaps were entertained by the public. at them. The celebrated Theatin Paciaudi being di-This task he actually performed with so much care, rected to new model the university of Parma, he attention, and zeal, that these last two books were established it on the same plan as that of Turin: he decidedly better translated than the two former; a invested a committee of secular clergymen with the truth of which the respectable writer himself was so power of directing all moral and religious concerns in convinced that he carefully revised, and almost totally it, and another committee of lay noblemen, under the altered the preceding part of his work. This uncom name of magistracy of reform, with that of super- mon zeal, however, was attended by a fatal conseintending all its temporal and economical transactions.quence; for being determined to copy, as he did, the Manara was appointed one of these magistrates, with the additional prerogative of being the exclusive director of that branch of the establishinent which was called the Royal College of Noblemen. It is almost superfluous to say that in this double capacity he answered the most sanguine expectations. In order to avoid a chasm in the statement of facts, we shall subjoin, that in 1771 he was appointed counsellor of state to his Royal Highness, and in 1773 was sent ambassador to the court of Turin, for the purpose of felicitating his late Sardinian Majesty on his accession to the crown. It reflects no small honour on him that, during these numerous occupations in the court and in the state, from 1749 to 1773, he wrote his masterly | translation of the Georgics of his favourite Latin poet. The great success of his former essays on the Bucolics, inspired him with the design of some farther similar exertions of his powers; but he had no sooner written the first two books, than he was trusted with whole manuscript wish his own hand, he fell into a giddiness which prevented him from any literary labour during the last days of his life, and scarcely left him the power of perusing historical books and periodical works for the sake of amusement. We must lastly notice, that although M. Manara never wrote any large work in prose, his letters to his friends and relatives were considered as a model of epistolary style, and such that, if a judicious selection had been made from them, it would, in all probability have proved a suitable appendix to the already wellknown collection of Letters from some Bolognese literati, for the use of young persons. He must have kept up indeed a large correspondence with his poetical contemporaries of Italy, as it was his custoin to shew his compositions, previous to publication, to the most intelligent persons in that line, and to listen with docility to their respective opinions. Canonici, Mazza, Pagnini and many others were of the number. To the last inentioned poet, already celebrated as the |