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And neither Niccolini's admiration nor his friendship were easily won.
After dinner sat with poor Henry till time to go to the theater. Played Isabella. House bad. I read Daru between my scenes; I find it immensely interesting.... I read Niccolini's "Giovanni di Procida," but did not like it very much; I thought it dull and heavy, and not up to the mark of such a very fine subject.
I have more than once surprised her in tears occasioned by her obstinate struggles with some passage of the intensely idiomatic satirist, which she found it almost but eventually not quite impossible to render to her satisfaction. She published a translation of Niccolini's Arnaldo da Brescia, which won the cordial admiration and friendship of that great poet.
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