Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869). L.A.S., [1839], to Maurice Schlesinger; half-page in-8. My dear Maurice, Here is this ode by Romani. It's magnificent! I have revised the translation with the greatest care; but I insist on seeing the proof, so send it to me as soon as it is done ... [This is the ode À Nicolo Paganini by the poet and librettist Felice Romani (1788-1865), which Berlioz translated out of friendship for Paganini; it was published in the Revue et Gazette musicale (September 15, 1839, no. 47, pp. 374-376), with this introduction: À l'occasion du dernier concert donné au théâtre Carignan au bénéfice des pauvres par N. Paganini, the celebrated Romani, whose opera libretti are the only ones we know of in France, and who is nevertheless one of the greatest poets of the century in the highest sense of the word, addressed an ode to the illustrious virtuoso, sparkling with the rarest beauties. Despite the powerlessness of French prose to reproduce the color and harmony of Italian poetry, our readers will no doubt be grateful to us for the translation sent to us by M. Berlioz].