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We must now turn in the last place to consider the nature of the entertainments, and see whether there was any improving or educational influence in them. These had originally consisted entirely of shows of a military character, as we have seen in the case of the Ludi Romani, and especially of chariot-racing in the old Circus Maximus.
Permit me," and he proffered roe a richly embossed and emblazoned silver cigar-case, with the Romani arms and coronet and MY OWN INITIALS engraved thereon. It was mine, of course I took it with a sensation of grim amusement I had not seen it since the day I died! "A fine antique," I remarked, carelessly, turning it over and over in my hand, "curious and valuable. A gift or an heirloom?"
Outside, too, the movement and the tumult of the fair were increasing. Cries of men selling their wares rose up, the hard melodies of a piano-organ, and a strange and ecclesiastical chant sung by three voices that, repeated again and again, at last attracted Maurice's attention. "What's that?" he asked of Gaspare. "Are those priests chanting?" "Priests! No, signore. Those are the Romani."
To thisepoch therefore we may trace back in the views and feelings of the people both the invidiousness of the distinction between patricians and plebeians, and the strict and haughty line of demarcation between -cives Romani- and aliens.
Then, suppose we fix upon the plot of open ground just behind the hill to the left of the Casa Ghirlande between that and the Villa Romani it is quiet and secluded, and there will be no fear of interruption." I bowed again. "Thus it stands," continued the marquis, affably "the hour of six the weapons pistols the paces to be decided hereafter when the other seconds arrive."
Both these were written for and introduced before the Neapolitan public. In these works he reached his highest development, and by them he is best known to fame. The opera-story of "La Sonnambula," by Romani, an accomplished writer and scholar, is one of the most artistic and effective ever put into the hands of a composer.
Seeing this, Ferrari exerted himself to be agreeable; he became a gay and entertaining companion once more, and after he had fixed the hour for our visit to the Villa Romani the next afternoon, our talk turned upon various matters connected with Naples and its inhabitants and their mode of life.
The barony or degree of lords doth answer to the degree of senators of Rome (as I said) and the title of nobility (as we used to call it in England) to the Roman Patricii. Also in England no man is commonly created baron except he may dispend of yearly revenues a thousand pounds, or so much as may fully maintain and bear out his countenance and port. But viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes exceed them according to the proportion of their degree and honour. But though by chance he or his son have less, yet he keepeth this degree: but if the decay be excessive, and not able to maintain the honour (as Senatores Romani were amoti
I asked, as carelessly as I could. "Are you talking of some saint?" "Well, if he were not canonized he deserves to be," replied the landlord; "I speak of the holy Benedictine father who brought hither the Count Romani in a dying condition. Ah I little he knew how soon the good God would call him himself!" I felt a sickening sensation at my heart. "Is he dead?" I exclaimed.
"And pray who was he that he should not deserve to die as well as other people?" The old man raised himself from his stooping attitude, and stared at me with his keen black eyes. "Who was he? who was he?" he cried, in a shrill tone. "Oh, he! One can see you know nothing of Naples. You have not heard of the rich Romani? See you, I wished him to live.
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