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Pompeii—A cameo—Sketch for the Bacco della Crittogama—Professor Angelini the sculptor—One must not offer one's hand with too much freedom to ladies—A hard-hearted woman with small intelligence—The San Carlo, the San Carlino, the Fenice, and the Sebeto—Monument by Donatello at Naples—The Barocco and mistaken opinions—Dilettanti in the fine arts—Prince Don Sebastian of Bourbon—Is the beard a sign of being Legitimist or Liberal?—I am taken for a prince or something like one—"The bottle" for doorkeepers and custodi of the public museums of Naples—Phidias, Demosthenes, and Cicero all against Ruggero Bonghi,
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Never make a present of your works—Pope Rezzonico by Canova—Tenerani—Overbeck's theories—Minardi and his school—A woman from the Trastevere who looked like the Venus of Milo—Conventionalists and Realists—An ambitious question and bitter answer—Filippo Gualterio,
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The nude—The statue of David—Rauch—The base of the Tazza—The chapel of the Madonna del Soccorso—Sepulchral monuments for San Lorenzo—The 27th of April 1859—Count Scipione Borghesi—A group of the Deluge—Competition for Wellington's monument, and a great help,
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