Patience a most essential virtue—Trust was a good man, but Trust-no-one a better—A competition either attracts or drives away men of talent—A study from life of a lion by Marrocchetti—Assistant modellers—Sydenham and its wonders—One of "Abel's" fingers—New judgment of Solomon—An important question—An Indian who speaks about things as they are—Professor Papi and the failure of the first cast in bronze of the "Abel"—A medicine not sold by the chemist,
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On the study of expression from life—The care one must take in making studies from life—A genre picture and Raphael's cartoon of the "Massacre of the Innocents"—I lose myself in London—The housemaid at Hotel Granara—The inconvenience of being ignorant and absent-minded—Ristori and Piccolomini in London—The cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court—Fantasy runs away with me—A curious but just law—The result of fasting—The villa of Quarto and a prince's "early hour"—Again of Prince Demidoff,
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My father's death—A turn in the omnibus—The Ferrari monument—I keep the "Sappho" for myself—The "Tired Bacchante" and the little model—Raphael and the Fornarina—The Madonna and bas-reliefs at Santa Croce and Cavaliere Sloane—My daughter Amalia and her works—My daughter Beppina—Description of the bas-relief on the façade of Santa Croce—I am taken for the wrong person by the Holy Father Pius IX.—Marshal Haynau—Professor Bezzuoli and Haynau's portrait,
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