- ED.
[97] Horace, Carm., II, 1, 7. - ED.
[98] Virgil, Aen., VI, 264. - ED.
[99] Virgil, Aen., VI, 129. - ED.
CHAPTER XII
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1816
From Rome to Florence - Sismondi the historian - Reminiscences of
India - Lucca - Princess Elisa Baciocchi - Pisa - The Campo Santo - Leghorn -
Hebrews in Leghorn - Lord Dillon - The story of a lost glove - From Florence
to Lausanne by Milan, Turin and across Mont Cenis - Lombardy in winter - The
Hospice of Mont Cenis.
FLORENCE, Novr. 20th.
I bade adieu to Rome on the 28th October and returned here by the same road
I went, viz., by Radicofani and Sienna. I arrived here after a journey of
six days, having been detained one day at Aquapendente on account of the
swelling of the waters. The day after my arrival here I despatched a letter
to Pescia to Mr Sismondi de' Sismondi, the celebrated author of the history
of the Italian Republics, to inform him of my intended visit to him, and I
forwarded to him at the same time two letters of introduction, one from
Colonel Wardle and the other from Mr Piton, banker at Geneva, who mentioned
me in his letter to Sismondi as having des idees parfaitement analogues
aux siennes. I received a most friendly answer inviting me to come to
Pescia and to pass a few days with him at his villa.
