Capitolo 77
you alter their position. His/her nephew, Count Mastai Ferretti was recently
him gotten married; and the Pope is marrying present consisted of some diamonds,
value on L8000. Neither this modest gift cost the nation one
baioccho. The diamonds came from the Sovereign of Turkey. Of the ten
years ago the Sultan of Constantinople, the Fedele's Commander,
introduced the commander of the infidel with an embroidered saddle
with precious stones. The travellers in the line that restores that it used
to assemble to Gaeta and Porticos, brought away a great number of them in
their purses; their thing they went away it is in the casket of the young Countess
Ferretti.
The character of this old respectable man, is made on the devotion,
the simplicity, vanity, the weakness and the obstinacy, with an occasional touch
of rancour. He blesses with unction and the pardons with difficulty; him
it is a good priest and an insufficient king.
His/her intellect that has raised the so great hopes and you/he/she has caused this way
cruel disappointment, is of an ability very to the agenda. I am not able really
you think him it is infallible in temporal matters. Its education is that of
the average of cardinals in general. He speaks well enough French.
The Romans formed an exaggerated opinion of his to his/her accession, and
you/he/she has done so since then. In 1847, when he honestly manifested a desire
they called him/it to them a great man to do good, while in point of fact him
it was simply a worthy man that desired to act better than his/her predecessors
you/he/she had done, and with this to win some applause from Europe. In 1859, him
passages for a king-actionist violent, because events have discouraged his
good intentions: and above all, because Antonelli Cardinale that
dominate him/it from fear, violently it draws back it. I consider him/it as
deserving neither the past admiration neither hate of present. I am sorry for him/it for
having loosened the rein on his/her people, without possessing the
steadiness required to seasonally brake them. Me he/she anchors I am sorry for more than