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The walls that we must shortly quit , Were raised against the plague and wit-Dante was driven out ; Alfieri , Whom pride made silent , love made wary
Was ill-respected , and but spared Because a German bed he shared . The crime of writing Brutus , he Rubbed off by kissing Albany .
poet ; . Faith ! I should think so , were it onel Fouler than ever moon , or sun , g-Twilight , or darkness , looked upon ! j He must have been , to touch that weed , A very red-haired man indeed . And thus , alas ! he closed the year ,
Whose spring was lovely Ligomer . Come , come along ; if you are late To view the noble piece of plate , You will be down with the suspected Turbulent , studious , disaffected . Illuminated
Carbonari—Freemasons—And no hope to tarry FRIEND . Must I admire it too ?
POET . Not quite So much the workmanship as weight FRIEND . I will make no remark , nor ask One question .
POET . You are saved the task . Whether you say one word or no About Don Neri ' s raryshow , One the shrewd maker will repeat ye . . 'Twas ordered ere he signed the Treaty . *
[ Benedetti was author of several tragedies and other poetry . His ode to Cortona , his native city , is the best poem the Italians have produced in these later times . He was persecuted by those in power , fled from Florence , and shut himself up in Pistoja . ] ?
MR STIVERS r XO LADY C . My Lady , Master is so partial to his country , that nothing can persuade him there is anything amiss in it . And , to say the truth , perhaps there is not much more than elsewhere . An Italian remarked the other day to an American , " We have the
With Austria , obliging Tuscany to turmsh troops ana money .