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‘He! he! he!’ said the man in black; ‘that is more than Mezzofante could have done for a stanza of Byron.’ ‘A clever man,’ said I. ‘Who?’ said the man in black. ‘Mezzofante di Bologna.’ ‘He! he! he!’ said the man in black; ‘now I know that you are not a gypsy, at least a soothsayer; no soothsayer would have said that—’ ‘Why,’ said I, ‘does he not understand five-and-twenty tongues?’
'He! he! he! said the man in black; 'that is more than Mezzofante could have done for a stanza of Byron. 'A clever man, said I. 'Who? said the man in black. 'Mezzofante di Bologna. 'He! he! he! said the man in black; 'now I know that you are not a gypsy, at least a soothsayer; no soothsayer would have said that 'Why, said I, 'does he not understand five-and-twenty tongues?
"He! he! he!" said the man in black; "that is more than Mezzofante could have done for a stanza of Byron." "A clever man," said I. "Who?" said the man in black. "Mezzofante di Bologna." "He! he! he!" said the man in black; "now I know that you are not a Gypsy, at least a soothsayer; no soothsayer would have said that " "Why," said I, "does he not understand five-and-twenty tongues?"
‘Oh yes,’ said the man in black; ‘he has done good service to our See, that is, in his way; when the neophytes of the Propaganda are to be examined in the several tongues in which they are destined to preach, he is appointed to question them, the questions being first written down for him, or else, he! he! he!—Of course you know Napoleon’s estimate of Mezzofante; he sent for the linguist from motives of curiosity, and after some discourse with him, told him that he might depart; then turning to some of his generals he observed, “Nous avons eu ici un exemple qu’un homme peut avoir beaucoup de paroles avec bien peu d’esprit.”’
Of the last the most conspicuous are the marble tomb of Alessandro Guidi, the Italian lyric poet, who died in 1712; and the simple cenotaph in the last chapel on the left of one of the titular cardinals of the church, who died in 1849, the celebrated linguist Mezzofante.
Of course you know Napoleon's estimate of Mezzofante; he sent for the linguist from motives of curiosity, and after some discourse with him, told him that he might depart; then turning to some of his generals he observed, "Nous avons eu ici un exemple qu'un homme peut avoir beaucoup de paroles avec bien pen d'esprit."
Of course you know Napoleon's estimate of Mezzofante; he sent for the linguist from motives of curiosity, and after some discourse with him, told him that he might depart; then turning to some of his generals, he observed: 'Nous avons eu ici un exemple qu'un homme peut avoir beaucoup de paroles avec bien peu d'esprit'."
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