On The Birth Of John William Rizzo Hoppner

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Title:     On The Birth Of John William Rizzo Hoppner
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner.[1]

HIS father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.

February 20, 1818. [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 134.]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] [Richard Belgrave Hoppner (1786-1872), second son of John Hoppner, R.A., was appointed English Consul at Venice, October, 1814. (See _Letters_, 1900, iv. 83, _note_ I.) The quatrain was translated (see the following poem) into eleven different languages--Greek, Latin, Italian (also the Venetian dialect), German, French, Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew, Armenian, and Samaritan, and printed "in a small neat volume in the seminary of Padua." For nine of these translations see _Works_, 1832, xi. pp. 324-326, and 1891, p. 571. Rizzo was a Venetian surname. See W. Stewart Rose's verses to Byron, "Grinanis, Mocenijas, Baltis, Rizzi, Compassionate our cruel case," etc., _Letters_, iv. 212.]

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Lord Byron's poem: On The Birth Of John William Rizzo Hoppner

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