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The Governor, perplexed by Cellini's vaunt that if he only tried he was sure he could fly, put him under strict guard, saying, "Benvenuto è un pipistrello contrafatto, ed io sono un pipistrello da dovero." Lib. i. cap. 125. Lib. i. cap. 105. "Il Papa diventato così pessima bestia," lib. i. 58; "Il Papa entrato in un bestial furore," ib. 60; "Quel povero uomo di Papa Clemente," ib. 103.
Il primo uomo, il musico, sings beautifully, but his voice is uneven; his name is Caselli. Il secondo uomo is quite old, and does not at all please me. The tenor's name is Ottini; he does not sing unpleasingly, but with effort, like all Italian tenors. We know him very well. The name of the second I don't know; he is still young, but nothing at all remarkable.
This appears in the translation as follows: "Uomo astutissimo, perito d' affari, e conoscitore delle altre corti: affettava un contegno il più umile, e reservato." "A man most astute, skilled in affairs, and acquainted with other courts; he assumed a demeanor the most humble and reserved."
"In verity," said mine host of Terracina, "they say the captain of the band is un galant uomo." "A gallant man!" said the Englishman. "I'd have your gallant man hang'd like a dog!" "To dare to meddle with Englishmen!" said Mr. Hobbs. "And such a family as the Popkinses!" said Mr. Dobbs. "They ought to come upon the country for damages!" said Mr. Hobbs.
And then there came the plots of Jules Verne's stories and marvellous narrations about l' uomo cavallo, l' uomo volante, l' uomo pesce.
It is true that, in England, the art of the ballet has gone down; the prima ballerina assoluta is getting rare, the primo uomo is extinct. The training of dancers as dancers leaves more and more to be desired, but that is a defect which we share, at the present time, with most other countries; while the beauty of the spectacle, with us, is unique.
Among the grey desolate crowd were sharp, rending 'Bravos! the people were in tears the landlord at my side was repeating softly, abstractedly: 'Caro caro Ettore, caro colonello and when it was finished, and the little colonel with shabby, humiliated legs was gone in, he turned to me and said, with challenge that almost frightened me: 'Un brav' uomo. 'Bravissimo, I said.
Per Bacco! un gallant' uomo!" exclaimed, in a martial ecstasy, a fat little Italian, who manufactured toothpicks and wicker cradles on the island of Notre Dame; "your exploits shall resound through Europe! and the history of those wars should be written in your blood!" "Never mind! a trifle!" exclaimed the soldier.
And while my boat paused, and I caught something of the enthusiasm of the serenaders, the boatman touched me, and, pointing to a part of the lake on which the setting sun shed its rosiest smile, he said, "There, Signor, was drowned one of your countrymen 'bellissimo uomo! che fu bello!" yes, there, in the pride of his promising youth, of his noble and almost godlike beauty, before the very windows the very eyes of his bride the waves without a frown had swept over the idol of many hearts the graceful and gallant Locke.* And above his grave was the voluptuous sky, and over it floated the triumphant music.
You must know that I have such influence in Naples that, when I say engage such a one, they do so at once." Marquesi is the primo uomo, whom he, and indeed all Munich too, praises very highly; Marchiani is a good prima donna; and there is a tenor, whose name I cannot recall, but Misliweczeck says he is the best in all Italy.
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