afforded, has obliged me to resort to interpolations of my own, no doubt
easily discernible, but which, I flatter myself, are not inharmonious to
the general design. This confession leads me to the sentence with
which I shall conclude: If, reader, in this book there be anything that
pleases you, it is certainly mine; but whenever you come to something
you dislike,--lay the blame upon the old gentleman!

London, January, 1842.

N.B.--The notes appended to the text are sometimes by the author,
sometimes by the editor. I have occasionally (but not always) marked
the distinction; where, however, this is omitted, the ingenuity of the
reader will be rarely at fault.




ZANONI.




BOOK I. -- THE MUSICIAN.

Due Fontane
Chi di diverso effeto hanno liquore!

"Ariosto, Orland. Fur." Canto 1.7.

(Two Founts