THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

SALVATOR ROSA..

BY LADY MORGAN.

One whom no servile hope of gain, or frosty apprehension of danger, can
make a parasite either to time, place, or opinion. B. Jonson.

Famoso pittore delle cose morali. Il Duca di Salviati.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1824.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.

PREFACE.

SHOULD it be deemed worthy of enquiry, why I had selected the life of Salvator Rosa as a subject of biographical Memoir, in preference to that of any other illustrious painter of the Italian Schools, I answer; that I was influenced in my preference more by the peculiar character of the man, than the extraordinary merits of the artist. For, admiring the works of the great Neapolitan master, with an enthusiasm unknown perhaps to the sobriety of professed virtù, I estimated still more highly the qualities of the Italian patriot, who, stepping boldly in advance of a degraded age, stood in the foreground of his times, like one of his own spirited and