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* * * Thete was no crowd in the streets , —^ the citizens looked with seeming apathy at the procession from their half closed sho " ps ' . Have these Roman * no puskion for shows ? * asked Montreal ; 4 if they could be easier amused they would be easier governed . * "' Oh ! Rienzi and such buffoons amuse them , we do better—we terrify ! ' replied Stephen .
" * * and so the gallant procession passed through the streets , and quitted the eternal city . " There was a long interval of deep silence—of general calm — throughout the whole of Home , the shops were stili but half-opened , no man betook himself to his business , it whs like the commencement of some holiday , when indolence precedes enjoyment . ct
About noon a few small knots of men might be seen scattered about the streets , whimpering to each other , but soon dispersing ; and every now and then a single passenger , generally habited in the long robes used by the men of letters , or in the still more sombre garb of monks , passed hurriedly up the street toward the church of St . Mary
of Egypt , once trie Temple of Fortune . Then , again , all was solitary and deserted . Suddenly there was heard ( he sound of a single trumpet . It swelled—it gathered on the ear . Cecco del Vecchio looked up from his anvil . A solitary horseman passed slowly by the forge , and wound a long loud blast of the trumpet suspended round his neck , as
he passed through the middle of the street . Then mi ght you see a crowd , suddenly , and as by magic , appear emerging from every corner ; the street became thronged by multitudes ; but it was only by the tramp of their feet , and an indistinct and low murmur , that they broke the silence . Again the horseman wound his trump , as commanding attention , and as the note ceased , he cried aloud—* Friends and Romans ! to-morrow at dawn of day let each man find himself unarmed before the church of St . Angelo . Cola di Rienzi convenes
the Romans to provide tor the good state ol Rome . A shout that seemed to shake the bases of the seven hills , broke forth at tlu ; end of this brief exhortation ; the horseman rode slowly on , and the crowd followed . —This was the commencement of the revolution ! " * * * The sun had long risen , and the crowd had long been assembled before the church door , and in vast streams along" every
street that led to it ; * ' * * the gate of the church opened ; the crowd gave way on either side , and preceded by three of the young nobles of the inferior order , bearing standards of allegorical design , depicting the triumph of Liberty , Justice , and Concord , forth issued Rienzi , clad in complete armour , the helmet alone excepted . His face was pale with watching and intense excitement—but stern , grave ,
and solemnly composed , und its expression so repelled any vociferous and vulgar burst of feeling , that those who beheld it hushed the shout on their lip » , and stilled , by a simultaneous cry of reproof , the tfmtulations of the crowd behind . Side by side will ) Kienzi , ruQved Haimond liiahop of Orvielto ; und behind , marching two by two , followed a hundred inen-ut-annfc >« In complete hilcm : c the procession began its way , until , u * it approached the Capitol , the awe of the crowd gradually vanished , and thousands upon tbovjHunds of voices rent the an with » liout& of exullntiou and |<> v .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/51/
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