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Excerpt from Marcian Colonna, an Italian Tale: With Three Dramatic Scenes, and Other Poems
The story of 'Marcian Colonna' is fictitious; but the catastrophe was suggested by a paper which appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, entitled, 'An Extract from Gosschen's Diary.' My original intention was to paint the fluctuations of a fatalist's mind,- touched with insanity - alternately raised by kindness and depressed by neglect or severity - ameliorated by the contemplation of external nature, and generally influenced by the same causes which operate on more healthful temperaments. This intention has been in some measure departed from, and the story gradually took the form in which it now stands.
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