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"Do you remember any of your version of the Radamiste?" "I remember it all." "You have a wonderful memory; I should be glad to hear it." I began to recite the same scene that I had recited to Crebillon ten years before, and I thought M. de Voltaire listened with pleasure. "It doesn't strike one as at all harsh," said he. This was the highest praise he would give me.
"He taught me to speak French in less than two years, and as a mark of my gratitude I translated his Radamiste into Italian Alexandrines. I am the first Italian who has dared to use this metre in our language." "The first? I beg your pardon, as that honour belongs to my friend Pierre Jacques Martelli." "I am sorry to be obliged to tell you that you are making a mistake."
"Do you remember any of your version of the Radamiste?" "I remember it all." "You have a wonderful memory; I should be glad to hear it." I began to recite the same scene that I had recited to Crebillon ten years before, and I thought M. de Voltaire listened with pleasure. "It doesn't strike one as at all harsh," said he. This was the highest praise he would give me.
"He taught me to speak French in less than two years, and as a mark of my gratitude I translated his Radamiste into Italian Alexandrines. I am the first Italian who has dared to use this metre in our language." "The first? I beg your pardon, as that honour belongs to my friend Pierre Jacques Martelli." "I am sorry to be obliged to tell you that you are making a mistake."
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