Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 14, 2025
Lenz relates that one day Chopin took him to the salon of Madame Marliani, where there was in the evening always a gathering of friends. This was rude. Just for that reason I seated myself beside her. Chopin fluttered about like a little frightened bird in its cage, he saw something was going to happen. What had he not always feared on this terrain?
But he had also completed, much about the same time, the entire dissipation of the never very large Marliani property. And it so happened that, very shortly afterwards, his own career was brought to a conclusion, which his relatives felt to have overtaken him a few years too late!
I do not write to him, but I love him always. Tell him this, and give him my love. Wodzinski still astonishes me. When you receive the money from Pleyel, pay first the landlord's rent, and send me immediately 500 francs. I left on the receipt for Pleyel the Op. blank, for I do not remember the following number. Madame Sand to Madame Marliani; Marseilles, April 22, 1839:
The Cardinal Legate of Ravenna was a Marliani, and the young lady in question was his great-niece the granddaughter of his only brother. She had lost both her parents at an early age, and now lived at Ravenna with a great-aunt, the younger sister of the Cardinal, under his protection and wing, as it were. The family was not a rich one, but the Cardinal had worn the purple many years.
And thus the Marchese Ludovico returned that evening to the Palazzo Castelmare, about an hour after Signor Ercole Stadione had quitted it; pledged to find some means of breaking off the match with the Contessa Violante Marliani, to which all Ravenna was looking forward, and engaged to be married to the little obscure Venetian orphan artist. Uncle and Nephew
There were places in Paris where it was dangerous to pass, as these gentlemen assassinated right and left for the pleasure of getting their hands into practice. Chopin, who will not believe anything, has at last the proof and certainty of it. Madame Marliani is back. I dined at her house the day before yesterday with the Abbe de Lamennais. Yesterday Leroux dined here.
Nevertheless, we have had one visitor, and a visitor from Paris! namely, M. Dembowski, an Italian Pole whom Chopin knew, and who calls himself a cousin of Marliani I don't know in what degree.
First you came into a vestibule where hats, coats, and sticks were left, then into a large salon with a billiard-table. On the mantel-piece were to be found the materials requisite for smoking. George Sand set her guests an example by lighting a cigar. M. Chodzko met there among others the historian and statesman Guizot, the litterateur Francois, and Madame Marliani.
In a few weeks you will receive a Ballade, a Polonaise, and a Scherzo. Until now I have not yet received any letters from my parents. I embrace you. Sometimes I have Arabian balls, African sun, and always before my eyes the Mediterranean Sea. I do not know when I shall be back, perhaps as late as May, perhaps even later. Madame Sand to Madame Marliani; Valdemosa, January 15, 1839:
Whether the son was Leone Sforza, afterwards apostolic protonotary, or whether he was the child whose death Lodovic lamented a few years later, does not appear, but all his life the Moro retained a sincere regard for the mother, Lucia Marliani, and left her certain lands by his will. Meanwhile, in the conduct of his elder brother Galeazzo he had the worst possible example.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking