Capitolo 48
indiscriminate way, from the love of patronage, from the pride the habit,
and the weakness, because they is ashamed to discard. They is from anybody means
badly prepared, they is good--I stop to this word, so that not I should go
too far.
They is not wanting in sense or the intelligence. Prince that Massimo is
quoted for his/her good sense and the two Caetanis for their puns.
Saint-cross, although a little broke, it is not man to the agenda. But that that a
unfortunate education that the Government gives them! When they is not the
children, they is the pupils of priests which the system mainly
it consists in the insegnarloro nothing. You find taking of a student of Street
Sulpice, tolerably washes him/it clean, has dressed him from Alfred or
Poole and bejewelled of Castellani or Hunting and Roskel, allow him to learn
to thrum a guitar, and he/she sits on a horse, and you will have a Roman
good prince as the best of them.
You probably think him/it natural that people threw above in Rome in the,
half of the most excellent jobs of art in the world, you/he/she should take a small
interest in art, and it knows anything him. You pray both undeceived. This
man has never entered the Vatican except to pay visits; that knows
nothing of his own gallery, but through him the relationship of his
house-assistant of edge. Another had never visited the Catacombs they cultivate him it became
Pope. They professes an elegant ignorance in that they thinks good
tastes, and what to the fashion will be always in a Catholic country.
I have said enough on the heart, mind and education of the Roman
nobility. Some words as to the fortunes of which they clears him.
I have in front of me a list that I believe to be authentic, as I copied
it me in a sure quarter. He/she understands the available and clean incomes of
the Roman and principal families. I extract the more main point:--
Corsini....... L20,000
Bourgeois....... 18,000
Ludovisi....... 14,000
Grazioli....... 14,000
Doria.......... 13,000
Rospigliosi.... 10,000
Column........ 8,000
Odescalchi..... 8,000