Excerpt from Memoirs of My Imprisonments The latter had scarcely attained his tenth year, when he made his first dramatic attempt, inspired by the reading of Ossian, who, through the masterly version of Cesarotti, was at that period the rage of the Italian youth. Led, therefore, by the taste of the time, his argument was entirely Ossianic. 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.