Capitolo 27
and any more money. Moral training that would sustain them is completely
wanting. The love of show, that illness of detail in Rome is them
bad luck. His wife, if she is beautiful, he sells, or her husband
what he would do better to leave not fact.
Don't too harshly judge them. Memoirs, they has not read anything them,
you/he/she has not been out never of Rome; the example of ostentation has put them from
the Cardinals, of misbehavior from the prelates of the venality from the
different officials, of dissipation from the Department of Internal Revenue Ministro. And
above all he/she remembers, that care has been brought to root out of them
hearts, as if it were a destructive weed that the noble feeling of
human dignity that is the principle of every virtue.
The blood that flows in Italian veins has to be very generous, or this way
notable a portion of the plebeians of Rome as the people of the
_Trastevere_, would not have been able to ever preserve their virile virtues, as it is
notoriously the case with them. I have met with men in this quarter of
the urban one, common, violent, sometimes fierce, but really _men_; beautiful
as to their honour, to the extension of poniarding any one whom is wanting
in in comparison to them. They is fully ignorant as the people of the
Mountains; they has learnt the same lessons, and it testified to the same
examples; they has the same improvidence the same love to like,,
the same brutality in their passions; but they is incapable of
bending himself/herself/itself, also to pick up anything.
A government worthy of the name would do anything of this ignorant person
forces, while first taming, and directing then it. The man that stabs his
it is probable that I individualize in a wineshop you try a good soldier on a battle-field. But
we am in the capital of the Pope. The Trasteverinis neither they attach God
neither the Government; them neither they are involved with theology neither politics; no
to more he/she wonders of them. And in token of his/her appreciation of their good person