Capitolo 43
nearer to Europe and the liberty. I have never failed, after having conversed
with one of the middle class in the Legations, to write in mine
tablets, _There is an Italian Nation_!
Me travelled from Bologna in Florence with a youth that me for before
taken, from the simple elegance of his/her suit, for an English. But us
you so naturally fall in conversation and my companion it expressed
him so fluently in French, that I imagined him to be a
individual-farmer. However, when I discovered as completely he was
poured in the state of the agriculture, produced, commerce, laws,
the administration and the politics of Italy, I could not doubt more
what he was an Italian and a Bolognese. What I mainly admired in him
the extension and variety of his/her knowledge or the it was not so a lot of
the clarity and the rectitude of his/her understanding as him the elevation of his
character and the moderation of his/her language. Every word that he has sent forth
you/he/she was characterized by a deep sense of the dignity of his/her country a,
I afflict bitter to the disesteem and it neglects in that it had that country
fallen, and a fixed hope in the justice of Europe in general and of one
great prince particularly, and a certain combination of the pride,
melancholy and sweetness that it possessed an irresistible attraction
for me. Him or it didn't feed hate against the Pope or some other
person; he admitted the system of the priests, even if suddenly
intolerable to the country, to perfectly be in himself logical. His
I dream it was not of revenge but liberation.
Me the learnt, of the duration later, that mine delicious travelling
companion was a man of the _mezzo ceto_, and that there are many more
as him in Bologna.
But you/he/she had already written me in my tablets these words, three times
repeated, dated by the Court of the Places, of the of Plaza the Duke of Gran,
Florence:--
_"There is an Italian Nation! There be an Italian Nation! There is a
Italian nation!"_
I CAPITULATE VII.
THE NOBILITY.
An Italian has said with prickly irony "That he/she knows but that one of