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ffi gh and Low Life in Italy. 395
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High And Low Life In Italy,
tration their movable and immovable effects , nevertheless most graciously allowing , in his clemency and wisdom , the mothers , wives , and daughters of the culprits to wear
mourning in their own houses , but forbidding such scandal in publip places , such as the theatre and the ramparts . Some of these , refusing to go out at all
for eight whole days , and thus treating with contempt the ducal clemency , have been committed to prison for contumacy , and will be put into the pillory , to teach them to shew their
faces . I kiss & c . & c . THE PARROCO SPINELLA TO MR RAIKES . Illustrissimus ! Theue is more danger than I believed there could be in
speaking of what belongs to Government in this our Tuscany . Formerly a certain latitude was allowed to the English , in consideration of the maxims in which they are educated , & nd perhaps too of the benefits the weaker nations of
the continent perpetually received from them . At present the ministers of these weaker nations , and especially of our Tuscajn y , experience as much satisfaction in rousing and
\ foundipg an Englishman , as ypun ^ unreflecting sportsme n experience in rousajg and wounding a wild boar . This reflection ^ which appeare « d to me equally just and ingenious wh ^ i began to transcribe it , now appears dark and dubious ,
High And Low Life In Italy,
and disparaging to the illustrious personages < m whoii } it was intemperately cast . It originated in an occurieitype < pf yesterday .
A stranger , an Englishman of course , was called before His Excellency the President of the Buon Governo , for having dared to shew the advantage of opening a new street , with the tower of Giotto at the one
extremity , and the Loggie at the other , not taking down , as the French would have done , the lane called Via de' Caccioli He was asked by His Excellency what he meant by interfering with the affairs of
Tuscany . " Good ^ he replied , " Sir , " exclaimed his Excellency with great vehemence , € i
we want no good from you J " " In future , " replied the stranger , " it will constitute ? io part of the outworks to the castles we build iri the air . "
His Excellency little understood the stranger ; but tjip words being fairly written out were interpreted by no means in his favour . He was ordered ( as the sentence usually runs ) to leave Florence in one hour , and Tuscany in three days .
Example , I am sorry to observe , appears to have ^ mall effect on your poufltry ^ ae ^ Another of them ^ s he & rcl % o say in the presence of n ^ a y that in Rome the butchersyf & t f ' . obliged to slaughter their cattle , in one appropriate pl ^ ce ^ e § r the Tiber . He made tliis observation because an ox trying to escape from a slaughter-
Ffi Gh And Low Life In Italy. 395
ffi gh and Low Life in Italy . 395
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/27/
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