He early joined the Carbonari, who numbered nearly a million in Italy, and edited a literary paper in Genoa, in which he dared to rebuke the historian Botta for his aristocratic tendencies.

The document of which I publish a translation has been copied with admirable precision by M. Botta in his "Monuments de Ninive" There are four specimens of this same text in the Assyrian palace, which bear the title of Inscriptions of the Halls, Nos.