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The composer's hitherto brilliant career was doomed to a gloomy close. On returning to Naples, at the Emperor Leopold's death, Cimarosa produced several of his finest works, among which musical students place first: "Il Matrimonio per Susurro," "La Penelope," "L'Olimpiade," "II Sacrificio d'Abramo," "Gli Amanti Comici," and "Gli Orazi."
After which he would add an apology, addressed to the embroidery-seller, who had a certain air of refined innocence, "Bestemmiar, no. Brutto bestemmiare. Non gli piace, no," and resume his game. Peter, who was selling embroidery, liked him so much that he followed him when he went to try his luck at the cigar game.
So went Bellaroba's marriage supper. "Le donne e i cavalier, gli affanni e gli agi, Che ne invogliava araore e cortesia." The little house discreet affair of eaves modest as drooped eyelids, of latticed windows, of wistaria before and a bower of willows behind was found and furnished out of the girls' store and the Captain's credit.
The boat to which Ruffo belonged, going out of the Pool to the fishing, passed at this moment slowly upon the sea beneath the terrace, and from the misty darkness his happy voice came up to them in the song of Mergellina which he loved: "Oh, dolce luna bianca de l' Estate Mi fugge il sonno accanto a la marina: Mi destan le dolcissime serate Gli occhi di Rosa e il mar di Mergellina."
She would rise at 5 a.m., and practice for several hours, rehearsing before a mirror and inventing attitudes. It was in this way that she conceived the "stage-business" which produced such an electric impression in "Gli Orazi," when the news of her lover's death is announced to the heroine. "While the rehearsals of 'The Maid of Artois' were going on from day to day and Mme.
No sooner is a person converted to Popery, than his principal thought is how he can bring the hands and feet of his brethren, however harmless they may be, and different from the giants, to the "holy priests," who, if he manages to do so, never fail to praise him, saying to the miserable wretch, as the abbot said to Morgante: "Tu sarai or perfetto e vero amico A Cristo, quanto tu gli eri nemico."
The first and famous axiom of the "Novum Organum" contains the phrase which Bacon constantly repeats, "man being the interpreter of Nature." Leonardo uses the same expression, "li omini inventori e interpreti tra la natura e gli omini."
But they were all friends of Angelo and so was I and in Sicily the maxim "Gli amici dei nostri amici sono i nostri" is acted upon quite literally. Passing through the door of the caserma we entered a large oblong room; at each end were three or four beds and on the side opposite the door two open windows.
No one can doubt that his poems exhibit, amidst some imbecility and more affectation, much elegance, ingenuity, and tenderness. They present us with a mixture which can only be compared to the whimsical concert described by the humorous poet of Modena: "S'udian gli usignuoli, al primo albore, Egli asini cantar versi d'amore."
A curious example of the mistakes of the old copies is afforded in the charming description of the Terrestrial Paradise in the twenty-eighth canto of the Purgatory. Dante says, that the leaves on the trees, trembling in the soft air, were not so disturbed that the little birds in their tops ceased from any of their arts, che gli augelletti per le cime Lasciasser d' operare ogni lor arte.
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