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Updated: May 22, 2025
Just as the half-hour struck, Hubert knocked at Madame della Scala's door, and was immediately ushered into a tiny little room on the ground-floor which was always called "Miss West's parlor," and which contained little furniture except a piano and table and a couple of chairs. It was here that Cynthia practised and studied, and sat when she wanted to be alone.
And the secretary Scala, who befriended him from the first, thinks highly of him still, I know." "Doubtless," said a notary in the background. "He writes Scala's official letters for him, or corrects them, and gets well paid for it too." "I wish Messer Bartolommeo would pay me to doctor his gouty Latin," said Macchiavelli, with a shrug.
Here was the Greek epigram which Politian had doubtless thought the finest in the world, though he had pretended to believe that the "transmarini," the Greeks themselves, would make light of it: had he not been unintentionally speaking the truth in his false modesty? Tito was ready, and scarified the epigram to Scala's content. O wise young judge!
It was a complete change from the Italian music that constituted the staple of Madame della Scala's concerts; but it revealed new capacities of passion in the singer's voice, and was not unwelcome, even to Madame herself, as showing the girl's talent and versatility. As she passed off the platform, Madame caught the girl in her arms and kissed her enthusiastically.
Petrarch reports of him that being at Can della Scala's court, and blamed one day for his gloom and taciturnity, he answered in no courtier-like way. Dante answered bitterly: "No, not strange; your Highness is to recollect the Proverb, Like to Like;" given the amuser, the amusee must also be given!
Politian, having been a rejected pretender to the love and the hand of Scala's daughter, kept a very sharp and learned tooth in readiness against the too prosperous and presumptuous secretary, who had declined the greatest scholar of the age for a son-in-law.
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