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I am glad to record that she expressed a very favorable opinion of our friend Mr. Thompson's pictures. May 12th. To-day we have been to the Villa Albani, to which we had a ticket of admission through the agency of Mr.
There is no likelihood the Conclave will end, unless the messages take effect which 'tis said the Imperial and French ministers have sent to their respective courts for leave to quit the Corsini for the Albani faction: otherwise there will never be a pope. Corsini has lost the only one he could have ventured to make pope, and him he designed; 'twas Cenci, a relation of the Corsini's mistress.
My whole property consists of six thousand scudi, and that trifling sum I dare not offer you." "Borrow, then, of Signora Malveda!" said Albani. "Cardinal Rezzonico is rich and liberal. Let us speak directly to the point. You would be pope, and I am willing to forward your views. How much will you pay?"
"I will avenge this affront or die!" thought she, as, grasping Albani's hand with convulsive violence, she whispered to him: "Free me from this woman, and I will realize all your wishes." Francesco Albani smiled. "Then you are mine, Corilla, and no power on earth shall take you from me. That child is dead.
It flashes up in a bright flame, is soon extinguished, and a small, almost imperceptible quantity of ashes floats from it to the feet of the pope. "Sic transit gloria mundi!" "Sic transit gloria mundi!" repeated Albani, in a yet louder and more thundering voice. The bells ring, the hymn resounds, the trombone and organ clang; the audience are on their knees in prayer.
He married her next year, and two years afterwards he took her to Dresden. I saw her five years later with a pretty baby; but after ten years of married life she died of consumption. I found Mengs at the Villa Albani; he was an indefatigable worker, and extremely original in his conceptions.
On January 15, 1751, Walton writes that James has confided to the Pope that Charles is at Boulogne-sur-Mer, which he very possibly was. On January 9 and 22, Horace Mann reports, on the information of Cardinal Albani, that James and the Duke of York are ill with grief. 'Something extraordinary has happened to the Pretender's eldest son. He had turned Protestant, that was all.
Money has already founded many a reputation, but not always has fame attracted money to itself! I shall be rich as well as famous!" "That you already are!" exclaimed the Cardinal Francesco Albani, who unremarked had just entered the room. "I am not," said she, with vehemence, "for they refuse me the prize of fame! Have you been with the pope, your eminence, and what did he say?"
So comes the truth of Goethe's judgments on his works; they are a life, a living thing, designed for those who are alive ein Lebendiges fuer die Lebendigen geschrieben, ein Leben selbst. In 1785 Cardinal Albani, who possessed in his Roman villa a precious collection of antiquities, became Winckelmann's patron. Pompeii had just opened its treasures; Winckelmann gathered its first-fruits.
The terrible Albani was too much feared, and had his own party too well in hand. But the thing was run very close. The danger was great that during the hours of the night that must intervene before the next scrutiny some means might be found to detach one Albani follower from his allegiance.
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