Book contents
- Frontmatter
- GENERAL PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
- EARLY PROSE WRITINGS
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- 1 “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
- 2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY” (1834, 1836), AND OTHER NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE
- 3 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE” (1838, 1839), WITH A PAPER FROM LOUDON'S EDITION OF REPTON'S “LANDSCAPE GARDENING” (1840)
- 4 ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
- 5 LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
- 6 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER (1841)
- 7 THREE LETTERS AND AN ESSAY. BY JOHN RUSKIN, 1836—1841 FOUND IN HIS TUTOR'S DESK
- 8 LETTERS TO A COLLEGE FRIEND (1840—45)
- APPENDIX
- Plate Section
5 - LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- GENERAL PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
- EARLY PROSE WRITINGS
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- 1 “THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE; OR THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NATIONS OF EUROPE CONSIDERED IN ITS ASSOCIATION WITH NATURAL SCENERY AND NATIONAL CHARACTER” BY KATA PHUSIN (1837, 1838)
- 2 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY” (1834, 1836), AND OTHER NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE
- 3 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOUDON'S “ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE” (1838, 1839), WITH A PAPER FROM LOUDON'S EDITION OF REPTON'S “LANDSCAPE GARDENING” (1840)
- 4 ESSAY ON THE RELATIVE DIGNITY OF THE STUDIES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC, AND THE ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM THEIR PURSUIT (1838)
- 5 LEONI; A LEGEND OF ITALY (1836)
- 6 THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER (1841)
- 7 THREE LETTERS AND AN ESSAY. BY JOHN RUSKIN, 1836—1841 FOUND IN HIS TUTOR'S DESK
- 8 LETTERS TO A COLLEGE FRIEND (1840—45)
- APPENDIX
- Plate Section
Summary
[Bibliographical Note.—“Leoni” appeared in Friendship's Offering for 1837, pp. 217—226. It was not signed, but in the table of contents “J. R.” was given as the author. Leoni was accompanied by a plate entitled “Early Morning” engraved by G. K. Richardson from a painting by G. Barret. It shows a sea-coast with ruined temples. The editor probably sent the plate to Ruskin, who more or less adjusted his descriptions to it. As the plate had no other connexion with Ruskin or Leoni, it is not here reproduced. An issue of Leoni, in separate form, has the following title-page:—
LEONI; A Legend of Italy. By J. R. London: 1868.
Post octavo, pp. 15, issued in mottled grey wrappers, the front cover being lettered: “Leoni; A Legend of Italy. By J. R.” This pamphlet contained the following preface (pp. 3, 4):—
My dear Friend,—You know often I have said that I would never do anything to reprieve from well-deserved oblivion the tawdry little bit of sentimentality in which your partial kindness persuades you to find something worth preservation, but which in my heart I feel to be neither more nor less than the outcome of a fleeting impression left upon my youthful mind by the reading of Rogers's Italy—a work that by the admirable reticence of its prose and verse should surely have instructed me to better result. […]
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 287 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903