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He is one of the first, if not the very first, man in the city; and everybody is cap in hand before him. Evidently a rich man." "And he is a musician, you say?" rejoined Quinto. "Fanatico! But what matters that; except, indeed, as a stepping- stone? What has music done for me? The Marchese Lamberto is a bachelor, Quinto." "Ha! what, the old man?" said Quinto, looking sharply at her.
This fanatico of mine, walking home from the theater one night with two other like-minded individuals, indulged himself in obstreperous abuse of poor Mr. Abbot, in which he was heartily joined by his companions.
Selby was a learned antiquarian, an accomplished general scholar, a fanatico in music, a man of gentle temper though reserved manners; had at one time lived much at Venice: after his marriage with the Signora Cicogna he had taken up his abode near Florence. To Florence Graham now went. He found the villa on the skirts of Fiesole at which Mr. Selby had resided.
Himself a fugitive, his life sought, and chafing under the smart of defeat and failure, it was characteristic of him to transfer instantly his interest to the study of a thing new to him. It was like him, too, to have conceived and risked all upon this last desperate and madcap scheme this message to a poor, crazed fanatico cruising about with his grotesque uniform and his farcical title.
No one but the Duke, my master, understands music so thoroughly as he does; indeed he is known here as il Fanatico."
I endeavored to reply, but my tongue refused its office. At length I turned on my heel, livid with wrath, and inwardly consigning the whole tribe of the Talbots to the innermost regions of Erebus. It was evident that my considerate friend, il fanatico, had quite forgotten his appointment with myself had forgotten it as soon as it was made. At no time was he a very scrupulous man of his word.
These boxes were indeed the drawing-rooms in which very much of the social intercourse of the beau monde was carried on. And except on first nights or some other such occasion, or during the singing of the well-known tit-bits of any opera, there was an amount of chattering in the house which would have made the hair of a fanatico per la musica stand on end.
But he was "fanatico per la musica." He was the acknowledged leader in all matters musical in Ravenna; the most influential patron of the opera in the city; and all-powerful in the regulation of all theatrical affairs. The Marchese Lamberto held a rather special position in the social world in Ravenna. His fortune was large; and the nobility of his family ancient.
In 1794 Prince Karl Lichnowski, who had been a pupil of Mozart, and who, as well as his wife Christiane, was fanatico per la musica, proposed that Beethoven should come and live at his palace.
I assure you that the master of this house is fanatico per la musica; heard you sing Siebel at Homburg raved about you wanted to call on you. We had to drag him away from the place; and he declares you are the first singer in the world; and you cannot doubt his sincerity, for here are the pearls."
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