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Updated: June 11, 2025
Germain des Prés and Clamart, by way of the Porte de Versailles and Vanves, was dragging its unwieldy bulk round the turn from the rue de Rennes into the boulevard. He could see the sign-board along the impériale "Clamart-St. Germain des Prés," with "Issy" and "Vanves" in brackets between. Ste. Marie clinked a franc upon the table and made off across the Place at a run.
But I have seen the gardens of the Poggio Imperiale, and the Palazzo de Pitti at Florence, and those of the Vatican, of the pope's palace on Monte Cavallo, of the Villa Ludovisia, Medicea, and Pinciana, at Rome; so that I think I have some right to judge of the Italian taste in gardening.
The original work of De Morga was printed in Mexico in 1609, and has become extremely rare; there is no copy of it in the Bibliotheque Imperiale of Paris.
"Monsieur," said he in French, "here is a point which perhaps will be of service. I am at the window when Monsieur Rivière arrives en taxi-auto. On the impériale I see a portmanteau. Doubtless Monsieur Rivière journeys away from Paris." "Did you note the number of the cab?" The young Frenchman made a gesture of sympathetic negation.
Mrs. Culling promised him demurely that she would listen, objecting nothing to his plan, only to his French. 'Messieurs de la Garde Francaise! he commenced. Her criticism followed swiftly. 'I think you are writing to the Garde Imperiale. He admitted his error, and thanked her warmly. 'Messieurs de la Garde Imperiale!
The Albergo Imperiale is high in its charges, but makes amends for it by the liberality and comfort of its appointments. It fronts one of the principal peaks which form the chain of the Col di Tende, which we contemplated as it caught the last rays of the evening sun, forming different guesses how we were to get up it. June 4. From Tende to Limone 15 miles.
Immediately outside this Porta Romana, sloping off a little to the left from the road to Rome, is a magnificent avenue of ilex and cypress conducting to a grand-ducal villa called the "Poggio Imperiale."
Your beauty, to my surprise, has been preserved to you, notwithstanding your numerous confinements and the fatigues of your position. Profit by the present juncture, and do not let the chance slip. You must tell him plainly that you have been marquise long enough, and that the moment has come at last for you to have the 'imperiale', and sign your name in proper style."
The most poetic thing in the book is his face on the first page, with that eager, devouring soul in the eyes of it. You may suppose that I am able sometimes to go over to the gallery and adore the Raphaels, and Robert will tell you of the divine Apollino which you missed seeing in Poggio Imperiale, and which I shall be set face to face before, some day soon, I hope....
Of these variants upon the model common to them all, we can only trace one with relative certainty. It is the bust at present in the Bargello Palace, whither it came from the Grand Ducal villa of Poggio Imperiale.
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