I Was There On The Last Night Of Its Representation, When Some
Amateurs And People Connected With The Theatre Put In Practice What
Appeared To Mean Ill-Judged Concetto, However Well Merited The Compliment
It Meant To Convey.
When the Vestal was about to descend into the vault, a
genius with wings rose from it and repeated
A few lines beginning Tu non
morrai and telling her that the suffrages of the Insubrian people had
decreed to her immortality, and printed sonnets were showered down on the
stage from all parts of the house. I think it would have been much better
to let the piece finish in the usual way, and then at its termination call
for La Pallerini to advance and receive the garlands and hommage so justly
her due.
I was in the loge belonging to my friend Mme L - - -; there were three or
four litterati with her, and they were all unanimous that it was an
absurd and pedantic concetto.
In a day or two I shall start from Milan for Munich thro' Brescia and
Verona and the Tyrol.
CHAPTER XVI
JULY-SEPTEMBER 1818
Innspruck - Tyrol and the Tyrolese - From Innspruck to Munich - Monuments and
churches - Theatricals - Journey from Munich to Vienna on a floss - Trouble
with a passport - Complicated system of Austrian money - Description of
Vienna - The Prater - The theatres - Schiller's Joan of Arc - A
Kinderballet - The young Napoleon at Schoenbrunn - Journey from Vienna to
Prague.
INNSPRUCK, 15th July.
I had engaged with a vetturino to convey me from Verona to Innspruck for
four louis d'or and to be spesato.
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