 <unk> editions without such imitations were also appearing both in Britain and abroad . Gray ’ s Elegy in English , French and Latin was published from Croydon in 1788 . The French author there was Pierre <unk> de <unk> and the Latin translator ( like Gray and Anstey , a Cambridge graduate ) was Gilbert Wakefield . In 1793 there was an Italian edition of Giuseppe Torelli ’ s translation in rhymed quatrains which had first appeared in 1776 . This was printed facing Gray ’ s original and was succeeded by <unk> <unk> ’ s translation in blank verse and Giovanni Costa ’ s Latin version , both of which dated from 1772 . A French publication ingeniously followed suit by including the Elegy in an 1816 guide to the Père Lachaise Cemetery , accompanied by Torelli 's Italian translation and Pierre @-@ Joseph <unk> ’ s free Le Cimetière de village . 
