[16] It is now almost forgotten that the Ludovisi gardens ever existed as the motley fashion of the new Roman world flocks to the American Legation in the Pal. Piombino!

[17] A few months ago the Prime Minister, then the Marquis di Rudini, was present at the taking of the veil by a young relative in Naples.

[18] The other day I saw from a railway train a grand old Longobardo tower which had been coloured a bright pink!


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