Melchiore Cesarotti's Italian translation was reputedly a favourite of Napoleon.
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In the autumn he set out to visit western Inverness-shire, the islands of Skye, North Uist, South Uist and Benbecula.
James Macpherson claimed to have found old poems from Ossian (or Oisin).
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BBC Radio has also broadcast abridged readings of Ian Rankin's "Rebus" novels, including Let It Bleed read by Alexander Morton, Death Is Not the End read by Douglas Henshall and Beggar's Banquet read by James MacPherson.
Also something of an Anglophile, he translated British poetry, including Macpherson’s Ossian and novels such as Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield – once he even tried to write poetry in English.