Poems, charades, inscriptions of Pope Leo XIII, including the revised compositions of his early life in chronological order

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Εver since the school- y of Viterbo has be me the inacher os the Christian Worid, European and American scholars have been able to admire and praiso the classic insis and exquisite finish os tho productions os his pen. in prose and Verse. Ηe WVo early promiseos uncommon litorary distinction. Jugi as he had completed hist eisth year, a college festival Naa got up in Welcome the Provincialos the Jesulis. Father Vincent Pavani. This gave to Vincent Pecesthe fidit recorded opportunity of sho ing his proficiency in Latinverse. M Weli as his admiration sor the character of tho venerableman who honored the name os Vincent.'' Reilly's Lisse, p. 55. 3 Il est int6ressant de retrouver dans l' enlance des grandη hommestes premiere germes des qualitta qui se dsivelopperont dans te mura de leur vie. A ce titre. on mut citer uno sipigramme latine, satis, hi' simque doni nous partons, par lo jeune Poeci. . . . on F reconniat d*k la pure et classique latinitέ qu' on admire dans inut oe qui sonde la plume du pontiso r6gnant. Μgr. de YSerclare: Le Pape

Leon XIII, Vol. I, p. 35. And Branelli, in his monograph Uua

leueroria di Leone XIII), calis these distichs quei primi suoi versicosi ingem i ed eleganti.

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not changed the simple habita os a lisotime cause ho is Pope. Heis mon Messed in his cassoch os puro White, and spenda a seW m menta in adoration at the altar os his private cha l. Then there isa hals hour vent in meditation or mentes prver on Rome of the great Gospei truths or mysteri . Thia over, one os his cliviai recites Mith him Prime, Terce and Sext-the three firet moriang Ηoum' os the canonical ome- and the Holy Father is ready sorΜ s. . . At tength the Mam is over. and the Pope and ali pres- ent have hines a second Maas of thantagiving. . . . They bring Rna whair . . and Ru present come once more in succession toknoel at his seel. . . Family groups are introduc . . . . Quite

here his enormous correspondenoe and his secretaries Rre Walting

oWn appotnted labor. The congregations or standing mmmittem os cardinata, among Whom are divided ali the mattera connected uiththo vast administration os a Church numbering 200 000,000. reportregularly to the Holy Father. Some of them have the Pope sorpresident, and hold their sitiings in his presen . . . . Innumer leoongregations and commissions besidis have their special Work in do, and to repori regularly. . . . His memory and his all-grasping intellect Mem to be eques to the mout astounding inbor. . . . Andthen there is tho Cardinat Socrota of State and tho torribly dimovitand incredibiy dolicato Work os dealing With the lamim mvern-ments. Look ovor the entire political and diplomatio field, and think of tho hard and long batiles the Holy See has in fight, not

gotton by the terribie round of ossiciat duties is light in or dispoilodis the pie ure the Pope finds in prayer, in the recitation of the inspired Psalms of the sWoet Singer os Israel,' in tho lemons os Holy

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Scripture and the hries record os the lila os the inint os the dv. Aster examination os conscience and night prvers, the aged Pope is supposed in retire and to rest. . . . But does he neVer breah in upon his rest o frequently, they say. His magnificent encyclicata, his consistorial allocutions, his addresses to pilmms, deputationaand societies, his most important bulla or constitutions, lihe those onthe restoration of the Scotch hierarchy, . . . are Written or eor-

rected or finished in the quiet os the night. Chap. XXXIV. 3

In placing the litile shrine os Iamison the Tarpeian or Capitoline hin aut Tarpeio, apud Capitolium seu Turpeum montem) the authoros the Charade .ritten, says Pros. Branelli, in 1834) has sor com- Panion no lem an autho ity than Mommsen, Who in 1844 publishod in the Annali deu' Inali uto an ossay De cimilis Romano, in Whichhe maintains that the temple os Ianus .aa on the Tarpeian hill in m monte), and endeavors to support his thesis by quotationa homTacitus, Festus, Ovid, Martiat, and Servius. Perhaps theso are thealiqui aeriptores referred in in tho soot- note in the Charine. But Dyer, in his excellent article on Rome Smithys να ου Gr. α

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Rom. Geos.), ahoWa clearly hoW sar Mommam erred in his interprotation. The incellum os Ianus probably lay bet. n tho Forum Romanum and the Forum Iulii. The Englisti translation sol-lom, os murae, tho erroneous implication, or rather statement, os the Italian original; and the oorrection has been relegatod in this place. The Charade also assumes that in the three arcades or Jam r. serred in by Horace, statues os the god had been set up. The Enytish translation os the Charade sollows the implication os the Italianoriginal, although the more recent vie. refers the Janua summu medius and - to three arches near the Forum. The Charide Would load ono in insor that the pili simulacri V Maa based onForcellini, Who is given M an authority in the s tmota. Forcellini,hOWever, eo idem Janua in be the name os a street, so called Minerbemuse of a temple or image of the god, or of throe arcades it m se tribua Iania perviis . He then continum: Prima hujus vicipare, ubi Pecunia senori dabatur, summus Ianua, ultima im , media medius Ianua voeabatur. And he adduces the illustrations DomHorace in support of this interpretation.

As tho Vangio vate ' has offered garianti to her, the young author wili modestly tender but Uun fiorellin poetico ' culled in his litile

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Or, lasib, does alie typisy Romer Silvia, tho mother os Romulus in the old myth, might very Wolt be climen as Rome personised. And the praeminence os Rome uould maho the declaration that shois the decore e vanio V os est Italia's queenly ciues nothing morethan a literat statement os a historical laci; sor What Shahespeare sings of his Silvia may be said M Weli os Rome:

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dren and rhaps, crying babies. At ait eventa, tho antithesis su Minod by tuo such names as Orsei and Pudomisa πω too good in escam appropriate recognition. The similarity of tho thought os the sint via a to that os Ἀγden's Ode has led the present translator in borro one lino Dom the En lish bard: quaesous of the lyre. He has not soli callod umn in this and similar instances os appropriation e. g., the Hac thian way to dusty death ' in De Innales ine Sua, and the Scriptural mison os aspa is under their longue ' in Riserius A. C. urrentem Mulierem De Eu, ete. ), to credit the stolen phrasea in their severat

Whilst Archbishop os Perugia, Cardinat Pecci Was Wont in havere urse in Verse, both as a solam amidst the cares os his ossim andas a means os testibing in his affectionate remembrance os certain excellent primis Who had tolled salthlalty and gone to their re ard. The versos in honor os one Serasino Paradisi, parish-primi os S. Elena, in playing delicately on the Worda os his nam' mahe use os bat is ordinarily a d gemus experiment; sor Where such WoH- play bappens in escape banalily, it meeta the danger esther os -- pleasant criticiam or os uncriticia flatteo. Happib. the Bishosis poem is laee smm ali these complications; sor a noto appended is it

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assures us that it has chosen sor prelae a man who Was integer vitae et carus ubique modestia sua.

Cardines Pocci, While Archbishop os Peragia, found some stightieisure in the mimi os tho many grave perplexities and laborious underishings os that period os his liso, to cultivate the muse With his old ardor. The only mem cited by De T relam I., p. 15I)is the Ara Photographisci, Whicli certainly deserves the comment: Citons de lui quel ques vera charmanis, qui traitent k la usirit6 unsriet prosane, mala aveo quel charmel la dissicult6 6tait d 'autant plus grande qu' il s' agisinit de relύbrer en latin uno cliose essentieti ment moderne: la photographie.

But Virgil condoles With his Gallus, While the Bishop condemnahia Galliis. And although the opening line os the mem commenem With the samo Words Galle, quid insania) as the 22nd lino os tho Eclogue, the insanity V assumes different complexions in tho tWo enses. A surther correspondonce of the tWo poems is found in the

Quam felix flore in primo, quam laeta Lepinis Orta Jugis, paulo sub lare, vita sulti

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e rapini mountians Wore recently Aug. 29, 1901 in the subjectos a triplo embassage: The crosa os the Solemn Homage on the Leo XVI. of Μount Capreo at Carpineto has been inaugurated Mith great pomp. The ceremony over, at hal Dpasi 8 on August 2s carrier pigeo vore de alched in the Vatican. The fidit reached the doveoot intho Papia gardens at ten minutes past 10, Maring the ooetium

Praepetibus pennis agron emensa Intinos Nuntia sisto: Crucis stant monumenis Leo.

At a quarter in 11 a thies arrived With:

Doubilem the three distichs Wero sum ted as an appropriate metrical forna by this poem De Se Ipso. They might bo renderedinto English as solioWs:

Altrix te puerum Vetulonia suscipit ulnis, Arius in Myolae excolit aede plum.