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Baretti 29. ‘Scelta di Lettere Familiari fatta per uso degli studiosi di Lingua Italiana,’ 2 vols. Lond. 1779, 8vo. All the letters except the first were really composed by Baretti himself, although they are ascribed to various eminent men. 30. ‘A Guide through the Royal Academy,’ Lond. 1781, 4to. 31. ‘Dissertacion Epistolar acerca unas Obras de la Real Academia Española, su auctor Joseph Baretii, secretario por la correspondencia estrangera de la Real Academia Británica di pintura, escultura y arquitectura. Al señor don Juan C. .... ,’ Lond. 1784, fol. 32. ‘Tolondron. Speeches to John Bowle about his edition of “Don Quixote,” together with some account of Spanish Literature,’ Lond. 1786, 8vo. 33. ‘Quattro Epistole,’ Lond. 1787, 8vo. Written in versi martelliani. 34. ‘Strictures on Signora Piozzi's Publication of Dr. Johnson's Letters.’ In ‘European Magazine,’ 1788, xiii. 313, 393, xiv. 89. 35. Numerous manuscript notes in English written in the margin of ‘Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., published from the original MSS. in her possession by Hester Lynch Piozzi,’ 2 vols. Lond. 1788. The annotated copy, now in the British Museum, formerly belonged to George Daniel. 36. Letters in Italian addressed to his friends. One hundred and forty-eight of these, all—except four—previously unpublished, are printed in Baron Custodi's edition of the ‘Scritti Scelti,’ ii. 7–380.

An edition of Baretti's ‘Opere scritte in Lingua Italiana,’ in 6 vols., appeared at Milan, 1813–18, 8vo. His Italian writings are also included in the ‘Collezione de' Classici Italiani,’ 4 vols. Milan, 1838–9, 8vo. An admirable edition of his ‘Scritti scelti, inediti o rari’ was brought out by Baron Pietri Custodi, 2 vols. Milan, 1822.

[Baron Pietro Custodi's Memorie della Vita di G. Baretti, Milan, 1822; Vita di G. Baretti per Giovanni-Battista Baretti, coll' aggiunta del processo ed assoluzione dell' omicidio da lui commesso in difesa di se medesimo in Londra, 1769, ridotto in ottava rima, Turin, 1857; Anecdotes of Baretti by Isaac Reed in Europ. Mag. (1789), xv. 349*, 440, xvi. 91, 94, 240; Campbell's Diary of a Visit to England in 1775 (Sydney, 1854), 32, 33, 123, 134; Gent. Mag. lix. (i.), 469, 569, lx. (ii.), 1063, 1127, 1194; Mazzuchelli, Gli Scrittori d'Italia, ii. part i. 345–9; Mrs. Piozzi's Autobiography (Hayward), 2nd ed. i. 36, 90–103, 243, 301, 315, 317, ii. 177; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. viii. 411, 477, 2nd ser. vi. 187; Evans's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, i. 17; Il vero carattere di. G. Baretti pubblicato per amor della virtù calunniata, per desinganno degl' Inglesi, e in difesa degl' Italiani (by C. F. Badini), Venezia (1770?); Athenæum, 20 July 1878.]  BARFF, SAMUEL (1793?–1880), promoter of Greek independence, was born about 1793, presumably in England (Trikoupes' Ἱστορία, iii. 131). In 1816 he established himself at Zante, became an eminent merchant and banker, and terminated a long career in that island, 1 Sept. 1880, ‘at the advanced age of eighty-seven’ (Times, 23 Sept. 1880).

Barff took an active part in the struggle for independence carried on by the Greek nation at the time of Lord Byron's mission, and he was one of the last survivors of the Englishmen connected with that movement. His reputation for honour, kindliness, and disinterestedness, is brought prominently forward in a series of letters addressed to him from Missolonghi by Lord Byron early in 1824, which are preserved in Moore's ‘Life of Lord Byron.’ It there appears that the negotiation of loans and the distribution of funds were confidently committed to Barff; whilst with patriotic benevolence he protected the persons and interests of stray Englishmen who had mistaken their way into Greece at that disturbed time. In these letters Barff is also recognised as the mediator through whom Georgio Sisseni, the Capitano of the rich district about Gastruni, made overtures of adhesion after having for a considerable period held out against the general government. Barff offered his country house to Lord Byron in the event of the health of the latter requiring his removal from Missolonghi.

[Annual Register, 1824; Moore's Life of Lord Byron with his Letters and Journals, 8vo, London, 1847; Trikoupes' Ἱστορία τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Ἐπαναστάσεως, 4 vols. 8vo, London, 1853–7; Times, 23 Sept. 1880.]  BARFORD, WILLIAM, D.D. (d. 1792), scholar and divine, was educated at Eton, and elected to King's College, Cambridge, in 1737. He proceeded B.A. in 1742, M.A. in 1746, and D.D. in 1771. He became tutor of his college, was thrice moderator in the Sophs' school, was proctor in 1761, and from 1762 to 1768 public orator, only resigning the post to stand for the Greek professorship, which he failed to obtain. In 1768 his college presented him with the living of Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, and in the year following he was appointed chaplain to the House of Commons by Sir John Cust, the speaker, but held the office for only one session. The next speaker appointed another chaplain, and Dr. Barford's friends feared he would be deprived of the usual preferment conferred on holders of the office; but on the plea that he was to be considered chaplain,