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It was hardly submitted, before it was carried nemine contradicente; and immediately afterwards, Thompson buttoned his coat in disgust, and was hooted out of the assembly. I followed him. Tasso. She is dead, Cornelia she is dead! Cornelia. Torquato! my Torquato! after so many years of separation do I bend once more your beloved head to my embrace? Tasso. She is dead! Cornelia.
Wherever one went one heard loud praises of "Torquato," as he was affectionately called by his Christian name by the populace. After due consideration I decided that we should move from Naples to the pretty little town of Salerno at the other end of the blue bay, and there at the Hôtel d'Angleterre, facing the sapphire sea, I spent several delightful days with the girl I so passionately loved.
I have learned that Goethe's masterpiece is neither Faust nor Egmont " and then, as Ernest looked at the malicious girl with a puzzled air, she added: "It is Torquato Tasso!
His putting to flight the assassins in Ferrara gave him such a reputation for courage, that there went about in his honour a popular couplet "Colla penna e colla spada Nessun val quanto Torquato." For the sword as well as pen Tasso is the man of men. He was a little eater, but not averse to wine, particularly such as combined piquancy with sweetness; and he always dressed in black.
Torquato Tasso was now in the full bloom of opening manhood. He was distinguished, like his father, for his personal beauty and grace, with a high, noble forehead, deep gray melancholy eyes, regular well-cut features, and hair of a light brown. He had the advantage of all the culture of his time.
"You will make your wound worse, excellency. Be calm! There is time for things to mend." "Time! When the whole affair has been bungled and by you." "By me, excellency?" "Yes; if you had given me Piero and Malsain instead of those serving-wenches Billot and La Crotte." Torquato lifted a deprecating hand.
Torquato Conti soon after resigned a command, in which neither riches nor reputation were to be gained. In this inequality of the two armies, the advantage was necessarily on the side of the Swedes.
But more important than the sleep, or even death, of a king, is the birth of a poet, I take it; and within this inclosure, on the eleventh day of March, 1541, Torquato Tasso, most melancholy of men, first saw the light; and here was born his noble sister Cornelia, the descendants of whose union with the cavalier Spasiano still live here, and in a manner keep the memory of the poet green with the present generation.
If further proof is needed I beg leave to refer to the confession of the Italian, Torquato Trotto, made at his expiation, which gives many and curious details, especially of what happened in Le Jaquemart, and which is registered in the archives of the Parliament of Paris, where all who list may see it.
When Torquato Trotto lifted the candle to guide mademoiselle and La Marmotte from the supper-room he was confident in the success of his plan, and already heard the jingle of Simon's crown-pieces in his ears.
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