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ZANONI.
BOOK I.
THE MUSICIAN.
CHAPTER I.
Vergina era
D'alta beltà, ma sua beltà non cura:
......
Di natura, d'amor, de'cieli amici
Le negligenze sue sono artifici.[1]
Gerusal. Lib., canto ii. xiv.—xviii.
At Naples, in the latter half of the last century, a worthy artist, named Gaetano Pisani, lived and flourished. He was a musician of great genius, but not of popular reputation; there was in all his compositions something capricious and fantastic, which did not please the taste of the Dilettanti of Naples. He was
- ↑ She was a virgin of a glorious beauty, but regarded not her beauty. . . . . Negligence itself is art in those favoured by nature, by love, and by the heavens.
vol. i.
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