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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Piccola, piccola! com e cortese! another invitation from M. Louvier for next Saturday, conversazione." This was said in Italian by an elderly lady bursting noisily into the room, elderly, yet with a youthful expression of face, owing perhaps to a pair of very vivacious black eyes.
Just once more Lucia shot up into flame. "Parlate Inglese molto bene," she said, and except when Cortese spoke to Olga, there was no more Italian that night.
About seventy miles farther on, there is another small river called Rio de Fumi, or Smoke River; so named, because at the time of its discovery, they saw nothing but smoke along this coast, made by the Negroes . Beyond this river, about twenty-four miles, there is a cape which runs a great way out into the sea, on which stands a high mountain, on which account it was called Cabo del Monte, or Cape Mount About sixty miles still farther on, to the S. E. there is another and smaller cape, on which is a small mountain or hill, which was named Cape Cortese, or Misurado.
Then as by a bolt out of a clear sky that temple, too, was completely demolished, in the most tragic fashion. A few days after the disaster of the Spanish-Brinton Quartet, Olga received a letter from Signor Cortese, the eminent Italian composer, to herald the completion of his opera, "Lucretia."
They could not reasonably be expected to know Neapolitan dialect; the language of Dante satisfied their humble needs. They found it difficult to understand Cortese when he spoke English, but that did not imply that they did not know English. Dante's tongue and Shakespeare's tongue sufficed them.... "And what were the words of the libretto like?" asked Georgie.
It is no wonder that the one man wrote 'La Donna di Garbo' and the 'Cortese Veneziano, while the other was inditing essays on Tyranny and dramas of 'Antigone, 'Timoleon, and 'Brutus. The difference between the men is seen no less remarkably in regard to courage. Alfieri was a reckless rider, and astonished even English huntsmen by his desperate leaps.
She's musical, too, and I shall ask her husband, I think: that'll be a man over, but it will be another Italiano " Olga wrote at once to Lucia, mentioning that Cortese was staying with them, but, quite naturally, saying nothing about the usefulness of Peppino and her being able to engage the musician in his own tongue, for that she took for granted.
Again: "Sospiro e sto in rancura Ch' io son si disioso E pauroso Mi fate penare Ma tanto m' assicura Lo suo viso amoroso E lo gioioso Riso e lo sguardare E lo parlare Di questa criatura Che per paura Mi fate penare E di morare Tant' è fina e pura Tanto è saggia e cortese Non credo che pensasse Nè distornasse Di ciò he m' impromise."
Lucia seemed to remember it better than anybody, for she remembered all sorts of things which no one else had the faintest recollection of: how she had discussed music with Signor Cortese, and he had asked her where she had her musical training. Such a treat to talk Italian with a Roman lingua Toscana in bocca Romana and what a wonderful evening it was.
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