In preparing this volume on the Countess of Albany (which I consider as a kind of completion of my previous studies of eighteenth-century Italy), I have availed myself largely of Baron Alfred von Reumont's large work Die Grafin von Albany (published in 1862); and of the monograph, itself partially founded on the foregoing, of M. St. Rene Taillandier, entitled La Comtesse d'Albany, published in Paris in 1862."