I saw Antonelli walking on foot with a gentleman and a lady of the Court — and I became a little jealous.
I must leave Rome. There is nothing more to be done here. I have had from Rome all that I can have of it this year. One must not force things. Nice...
I said that Pietro had not yet trampled everything underfoot for my sake.
All night I did nothing but dream of Torlonia, so that when my model arrives I am incapable of painting.
With my letters to the monks of Cimiez, and by forever dressing Emile in a friar's habit, I have found a real monk here. It was a premonition....
We visited the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla. Is it possible to see anything more immense? I was very frightened going through the entrance gate,...
Monks, churches, convents — all this amuses me greatly, and I love Rome on account of the monks who hold sway there. I find it pleasing — from a...
The 13th is Torlonia's date with respect to me — it was also Hamilton's date, always with respect to me. He was presented on the 13th of March, a...
Maman wants to frighten me by speaking of diseases. It serves no purpose except to rob me of my peace of mind. But since the principal aim of her...
Were it still winter I should perhaps not think so much of Torlonia — but this confounded spring sharpens all the senses so keenly that one is...
The day after tomorrow I shall see Pietro! One would think I loved him, to judge by my impatience.
While I was taking my painting lesson, I heard in Walitsky's room — which is next to the studio — a man's voice speaking Russian. I knocked at the...
How disagreeable this hotel is! Plowden called two days ago and the day before yesterday, and no one told us; it was he himself who mentioned it...
With a fervent faith, a moved heart, and a well-disposed soul, I made my confession and received communion. Maman and Dina too. Then we heard mass —...