THE CITIZEN OF A REPUBLIC, WHAT ARE HIS RIGHTS, HIS DUTIES, AND PRIVILEGES, BY Ansaldo Ceba, A GENOESE REPUBLICAN OF THE 16TH CENTURY. LESTER, TRANSLATOR OF THE CHALLENGE OF BARLETTA," THE FLOREN- AND ROYAL ATHENEUM OF FLORENCE. 1129 NEW YORK: PAINE AND BURGESS, 62 JOHN STREET. LOAN STACK Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of S. W. BENEDICT, Stereotyper C413 TO THE HON. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. DEAR SIR,-You have placed me under very deep obligation by allowing me to dedicate to you this translation of Ceba's "Citizen of a Republic." I am sorry I cannot accompany the act with some token of respect commensurate with the veneration I was taught, from my childhood, to feel for your name. In earlier ages, when the publication of a book was regarded as an event of too much importance to be hazarded without the patronage of some powerful Prince, Authors were accustomed to fill up their dedications with extravagant, and often unmerited adulation. The poor Scholar, however, was compelled to wear the chain-the power of choice was not with him. It was enough for him if he could find some powerful Prince, who would pay the expense of publication, and shield the writer from the storm that gathered over the pathway of the Thinker. In those days and in those countries, where thought was a crime, and its free expression felony, this was often so signal a service, it could not but awaken in return the deepest gratitude. Let us 1680 |