Excerpt from Gabriele Rossetti: A Versified Autobiography IN Italy the poems of Gabriele Rossetti have enjoyed a large amount of celebrity, and they are still held in honoured remembrance; his prose works are there known rather by rumour than in perusal. In England the case of the prose works is much the same, while the poems are as good as um known. His life has never been written on any very complete scale. In Italian there are some Memoirs, more or less detailed and accurate - perhaps the most solid is that written by my cousin Teodorico pietrocola-rossetti; in English, the nearest approach to an account of him may be what appears in the course of my Memoir of Dante Gaeriel Rossetti (189 There is also some important information in the book, jalm Hooklzam Frere and iris Friends, mentioned on p. I 32 of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.