XV. O DÉLICES D'AMOUR!...

In the editions by G. de Chénier and Moland this piece appears among the Élégies italiennes, under the title Éloge de la vieillesse. A. Chénier had marked it [Greek: Eleg. ital]. His design is here, as we are told in one of his notes, to 'contredire pied à pied l'élégie contre la vieillesse.' The poem has been left unfinished.

L. 5. Rome d'amours.... If we are to take this as a genuine confession, A. Chénier would have been as sensible to the charms of the Roman beauties as he is known to have been to those of the Parisian belles.