One of my colleagues—A mysterious voice—The group of the "Pietà"—Very clear Latin—A professor who ignores the 'Divina Commedia'—Composition of the group of the "Pietà"—Digression—A good lesson and nervous attack—Mancinelli and Celentano,
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A prophetic dream—Giovanni Strazza—Signor Vonwiller and societies for promoting art—Return from Naples to Rome, and my daughter Luisina's illness—Our return to Florence—Death of Tria the model—The Mossotti monument at Pisa—How it was that I did not make the portrait of his Majesty the King—The competition for Cavour's monument—I go to Turin to pass judgment on it—The "Christ after the Resurrection," a commission of Signor Filippi di Buti—Religious art and Alessandro Manzoni and Gino Capponi—Thought is not free—Cavour's monument—The description of it,
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Allegories in art—The Monga monument at Verona—Of my late daughter Luisina—Her death—How I was robbed—Monsignore Archbishop Limberti's charitable project—One of my colleagues—Nicolô Puccini and the statue of Cardinal Forteguerri—Cesare Sighinolfi—Cardinal Corsi, Archbishop of Pisa,
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The Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1867—The imitators of Vela—Inedited music by Rossini and Gustave Doré—Domenico Morelli—Group of Prince Trabia's children and the thieves—"Stick no bills"—The statue of Marshal Pallavicini—The Empress Maria Teresa and Marshal Pallavicini—A memorial monument to Fra Girolamo Savonarola—The Universal Exhibition at Vienna—A tiny room—Excellent and very dear—On harmony of sounds—On the harmony in the animal world—The harmony of the human form as manifested by the inner beauty of the soul—The campanile of St Stephen's and Canova's monument,