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Marchesa Lenzoni (search for this): chapter 3
Chapter 3: Florence. Niccolini. Madame Lenzoni. Grand Duke. Micali. Alberti manuscripts of Tasso. Gino Capponi. Italian society. Rome. Bunsen. Thorwaldsen. Princess Gabrielli. Borgheses. Cardinal Fesch. English society. Princess Massimo. Archceological lectures. Journal. Florence, November 5.—A rainy day. I went, however, to see my friend Bellocq, whom I knew in Madrid as Secretary of the French Embassy there, and who is here Charge d'affaires from Franch they would go to Asti. But it has turned out otherwise; and the Italians console themselves for their loss by abusing the wife of the Pretender; a satisfaction which, I assure you, some of the principal men in Florence enjoyed one night at Madame Lenzoni's in great perfection, at the end of a rather active and agreeable soiree. The want of society—intellectual, agreeable society—is very much felt by foreigners, not only in Florence, but throughout Italy. I have sometimes thought that it i<
M. Fabre (search for this): chapter 3
re I passed a forenoon once in looking over his library and manuscripts. Au reste, she has not left any odor of sanctity behind her among the Florentines. In the latter part of her life she fell under the influence of a Frenchman by the name of Fabre,— you remember Dido's conjugium vocat, hoc proetexit nomine culpam,— and when she died she left him all her property; so the Palazzo Alfieri, as it is called, is turned into a lodging-house, and all Alfieri's books and manuscripts are carried off to the South of France, except a duplicate copy of his Tragedies, which Monsieur Fabre gave to the Laurentian Library. This annoys the Italians, and so much the more, because Alfieri, not in legal, but in poetical form, by a sonnet, had signified his wish that his library should be deposited in his native city of Asti; and I remember Tassi, who was his private secretary, told me, when he showed me the books, that at Mad. d'albany's death they would go to Asti. But it has turned out otherwise;
Giuseppe Micali (search for this): chapter 3
Chapter 3: Florence. Niccolini. Madame Lenzoni. Grand Duke. Micali. Alberti manuscripts of Tasso. Gino Capponi. Italian society. Rome. Bunsen women of her class, entirely without affectation or pretension. I found there Micali, the author of Italia avanti il Dominio dei Romani,—an old man, but very full oher agreeable people. . . . I was particularly glad to make the acquaintance of Micali, whose book, which I have valued these twenty years, has, I find, passed througs me augur well for his success. . . . November 16.—I went this morning with Micali to see the Marquis Gaetano Capponi, a member of one of those old Florentine famts,—are now, I am told, all the men of letters in Florence: Niccolini, Capponi, Micali, Becchi, etc., though some of them, like Niccolini, were at first believers in of his characteristic manuscripts. I also knew there, and at their own houses, Micali, the author of Italia avanti i Romani,—a lively, courtly old gentleman, of goo
Alberti (search for this): chapter 3
Florence. Niccolini. Madame Lenzoni. Grand Duke. Micali. Alberti manuscripts of Tasso. Gino Capponi. Italian society. Rome. Bthat he had not published the whole contained in that library. Count Alberti, therefore, as he says, sought for this remainder of Tasso's aue's receipt at the bottom of it. It was soon bruited about that Count Alberti was in possession of very curious autograph manuscripts of Tassnsequences. Thereupon the Prince Falconieri, without notice to Count Alberti, reclaimed his manuscripts by process of law, as having been i absolutely declaring them to be forgeries; the Grand Duke gave Count Alberti some hundred crowns for his trouble, and from that time–which iars—the general opinion has gone against their authenticity. Count Alberti, on his side, appeals to the well-known facts touching the Falcce and historical proofs. On the other hand, it is said that Count Alberti is an adventurer, who had formerly been an officer in the army;
Michel Angelo (search for this): chapter 3
ot for the better. Of foreign, there was a good deal; but we cared little about it, for it was merely fashionable. Of Italian there was very little. The Marchioness Lenzoni——who, besides being the last descendant of one branch of the Medicis, owns and carefully preserves at Certaldo the house which Boccaccio possessed, and where he died—opened her saloon twice a week, and received the principal Florentine nobility, as well as the men of letters, and I met there Buonarotti, the head of Michel Angelo's family, and the head of the administration of justice for Tuscany,—an eminent and respectable man, whom I was glad to visit in the great artist's house, and to find surrounded with his memorials, and possessing a good many of his characteristic manuscripts. I also knew there, and at their own houses, Micali, the author of Italia avanti i Romani,—a lively, courtly old gentleman, of good fortune, who values himself as much on his fashionable distinctions as on his considerable liter
Poulett Thompson (search for this): chapter 3
November 19.—. . . . This evening, as in duty bound, we went to pay our respects to the Saxon princesses. We found the Princess Louise waiting for us, looking very prettily, but most simply dressed; and soon afterwards the old Prince Max came in with the Princess Amelia. They were extremely kind, . . . . and talked pleasantly, after the fashion of princesses, about small matters that could compromise nobody . . . . . November 20.—. . . . In the evening we drove out to Fiesole, where Mr. Thompson of New York has been living two years, in a very nice, comfortable villa. . . . . . At table, I happened to sit next to the Princess Galitzin, and it is a long time since I have talked with any lady who had at once so much good sense and so much brilliancy in her conversation. After dinner, while I was near her, Bartolini gave us an interesting account of his residence at Elba, with Bonaparte, whose sculptor he was, and who was so kind to him, both then and previously, that he is still a
Cleopatra (search for this): chapter 3
rning, the remains of the Theatre of Marcellus, and of the Portico of Octavia. There is, after all, not a great deal to be seen of them; but the antiquarians are much interested about them always, because the marble plan at the Capitol shows so distinctly what they were; and everybody feels interested in what bears the name of Octavia, the sister of Augustus, whom Shakespeare has so well described in a few lines, and in Marcellus, whom Virgil has immortalized in still fewer. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II. Sc. 2, and Aeneid, Book VI. v. 884. The Theatre was begun by Julius Caesar (Dio Cass., 53-30, p. 725, and 43, 49, p. 376), but was finished by Augustus, and dedicated, A. u. c. 741, to the memory of Marcellus, who had been dead ten years (Plin., 8, 23; Suet. Aug., 29). . . . . The Portico, which Augustus built afterwards, for the accommodation and shelter of the people frequenting the Theatre, was a wide range of buildings, including two or three temples, of which remains a
Vittorio Alfieri (search for this): chapter 3
ing, I was offered for lodging-rooms the very suite of apartments in her palazzo over that in which I used to visit her; the very suite, too, that was occupied by Alfieri, and where I passed a forenoon once in looking over his library and manuscripts. Au reste, she has not left any odor of sanctity behind her among the Florentinest, hoc proetexit nomine culpam,— and when she died she left him all her property; so the Palazzo Alfieri, as it is called, is turned into a lodging-house, and all Alfieri's books and manuscripts are carried off to the South of France, except a duplicate copy of his Tragedies, which Monsieur Fabre gave to the Laurentian Library. This annoys the Italians, and so much the more, because Alfieri, not in legal, but in poetical form, by a sonnet, had signified his wish that his library should be deposited in his native city of Asti; and I remember Tassi, who was his private secretary, told me, when he showed me the books, that at Mad. d'albany's death they would g
Wyse (search for this): chapter 3
rielli.—Charles—is suing his father and mother for his wife's dowry; Queen Caroline Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon I., once Queen of Naples as wife of Murat. is quarrelling with Joseph and Jerome for the inheritance she claims from Madame Mere; the Princess of Canino is in Tuscany, furiously jealous of her husband, and yet refusing to join him in England. One of her daughters Half-sister to the Princess Gabrielli. She did not lose her life by the escapade here mentioned. is Mrs. Wyse, who threw herself into the Serpentine River in St. James's Park, a few years ago; . . . . one son is exiled to America for having been concerned in a murder; another is now in the castle of St. Angelo, under sentence of death, as the principal who committed it; and so on, and so on. Of the whole Bonaparte family the Princess Gabrielli is, in short, the only one who can now be said to be in an eligible position in society, or personally happy, and she owes the whole of this to her good
L. Bellocq (search for this): chapter 3
Chapter 3: Florence. Niccolini. Madame Lenzoni. Grand Duke. Micali. Alberti manuscripts of Tasso. Gino Capponi. Italian society. Rome. Bunsen. Thorwaldsen. Princess Gabrielli. Borgheses. Cardinal Fesch. English society. Princess Massimo. Archceological lectures. Journal. Florence, November 5.—A rainy day. I went, however, to see my friend Bellocq, whom I knew in Madrid as Secretary of the French Embassy there, and who is here Charge d'affaires from France, a bachelor, grown old, and somewhat delabre, but apparently with as much bonhomie as ever. I drove, too, to Greenough's house, but found he had gone to the United States; Horatio Greenough, the American sculptor. . . . . but I did little else except make inquiries about the cholera at Naples, which threatens to interfere with our plans. In the evening I went to a regular Italian conversazione, which occurs twice a week at the house of the Marchioness Lenzoni, the last descendant of on
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