Volume IV Part 32 (1/2)
”It is notto Rome that your eminence should wonder at, but a man of any sense would wonder at the Inquisitors if they had the hardihood to issue an 'ordine sanctissie any cri me of my liberty”
This reply silenced his e taken ht him one Shortly after I left and never set foot in that house again
The Abbe Winckelmann went out with my brother and myself, and as he ca to supper
Winckelmann was the second volume of the celebrated Abbe de Voisenon He called for me next day, and ent to Villa Albani to see the Chevalier Mengs, as then living there and painting a ceiling
My landlord Roland (who knew my brother) paid non and was fond of good living I told hi him to stay with hter Therese, although I had only spoken to her for a few minutes, and had only seen her head
”You saw her in bed, I will bet!”
”Exactly, and I should very much like to see the rest of her Would you be so kind as to ask her to step up for a few minutes?”
”With all lad to obey her father's suure, her eyes were of surpassing brilliancy, her features exquisite, her ether I did not like her so well as before In return, my poor brother became ena her slave He married her next year, and two years afterwards he took her to Dresden I saw her five years later with a pretty baby; but after ten years of s at the Villa Albani; he was an indefatigable worker, and extreinal in his conceptions He welcoe me at his house in Rome, and that he hoped to return home himself in a few days, with his whole family
I was astonished with the Villa Albani It had been built by Cardinal Alexander, and had been wholly constructed from antique materials to satisfy the cardinal's love for classic art; not only the statues and the vases, but the colu was Greek He was a Greek hie of antique work, and had contrived to spend comparatively little money con monarch had had a villa like the cardinal's built, it would have cost him fifty ain
As he could not get any ancient ceilings, he was obliged to have thereatest and the reat pity that death carried him off in the midst of his career, as otherwise he would have enriched the stores of art with nu to justify his title of pupil of this great artist When I come to my visit to Spain in 1767, I shall have sos
As soon as I was settled with e, a coachman, and a footnor Cornaro, auditor of the 'rota', with the intention oflest he as a Venetian et compromised, he introduced n pontiff
Before I pass on to anything else, I will inform my readers of what took place on the occasion of reat enemy of the Jesuits, a wit, and man of letters
EPISODE 18--RETURN TO NAPLES
ROME--NAPLES--BOLOGNA
CHAPTER VIII
Cardinal Passianei--The Pope--Masiuccia--I Arrive At Naples
Cardinal Passionei received ed me to wait till he had finished, but he could not ask me to take a seat as he occupied the only chair that his vast room contained
When he had put down his pen, he rose, ca me that he would tell the Holy Father of ht have made a better choice, as he knows the Pope does not like ht it better to choose the man who is esteemed than the man who is merely liked”