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Glimpses of Italian Society in the Eighteenth Century Hester Lynch Piozzi,Evelyn Lilian Haze Martinengo-Cesaresco No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 4 - To-day I have had no communication with my Carbonari cronies; but, in the mean time, my lower apartments are full of their bayonets, fusils, cartridges, and what not. I 'suppose that they consider me as a depot, to be sacrificed, in case of accidents. It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object — the very poetry of politics. Only think — a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.
Page 20 - Surely the immediate sensation conveyed to the mind by the sight of such tremendous appearances must be in every traveller the same, a sensation of fulness never experienced before, a satisfaction that there is something great to be seen on earth — some object capable of contenting even fancy.
Page 188 - The conversations of Cardinal de Bernis and Madame de Boccapaduli are what my countrywomen talk most of; but the Roman ladies cannot endure perfumes, and faint away even at an artificial rose. I went but once among them, when Memmo, the Venetian Ambassador, did me the honour to introduce me somewhere, but the conversation was soon over, not so my shame ; when I perceived all the company shrink from me very oddly, and stop their noses with rue, which a servant brought to their assistance on open salvers....
Page 112 - Bertoni declared he never knew the bird's judgment fail ; and that he often kept him out of the room, for fear of his affronting or tormenting thofe who came to take mufical inftructions.
Page 89 - With thee conversing I forget all time; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Page 98 - A skeleton wire upon the head, such as we use to make up hats, throwing loosely over it a large piece of black mode or persian, so as to shade the face like a curtain, the front being trimmed with a very deep black lace or souflet gauze, infinitely becoming.
Page 132 - ... incomparable dinners every day for the insects that devour them every night ; and will, if they are wise, seek compensation from the company of the half-animated pictures that crowd the palaces and churches for the half-dead inhabitants who kneel in the streets of Bologna." They went on to Florence, ' passing apparently through a new region of the earth, or even air; clambering up mountains covered with snow, and viewing with amazement the little valleys between, where, after quitting the summer...
Page 110 - London by his long refidence among us, and from the undifputed merit of his compofitions, now inhabits this his native city, and being fond of dUmb creatures, as we call them, took to petting a pigeon, one of the few animals which can live at Venice, where, as I obferved, fcarcely any quadrupeds can be admitted, or would exifl with any degree of comfort to themfelves.
Page 21 - Cadmus ; he had the fkin of a beaft wrapt round his middle, which confirmed the fancy — but our fervants, who borrowed from no fictitious records the few ideas that adorned their talk, told us he reminded them of John the Bapttft. I had fcarce recovered the fhock of this too fublime comparifon, when we approached his cottage, and found the felons nailed againft the wall, like foxes heads or fpread kites in England.