Memoirs of Prince Metternich

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1817. JOURNEY TO LEGHORN IN THE SUITE OF THE ARCHDUCHESS LEOPOLDINE, THE NEWLY-MARRIED CROWN PRINCESS OF PORTUGAL Extracts from Metternich's private Letters from June 10 to July 86,1817. 214. Padua and Venice. 215. From Covigliajo? wretched accommodation? Cattajo?concert at the house of the Cardinal Legate...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1817. JOURNEY TO LEGHORN IN THE SUITE OF THE ARCHDUCHESS LEOPOLDINE, THE NEWLY-MARRIED CROWN PRINCESS OF PORTUGAL Extracts from Metternich's private Letters from June 10 to July 86,1817. 214. Padua and Venice. 215. From Covigliajo? wretched accommodation? Cattajo?concert at the house of the Cardinal Legate ? Abbfi Mezzofanti. 216. Impression made by Florence?the Pitti Palace?the gallery. 217. Pisa ?Campo Santo?the episode of Pernambuco. 218. The Catalan . 219. The Pope's illness?Fiesole?the Florentine dialect?the churches of Sta. Annun- ziata and Sta. Croce? Alfleri's monument by Canova?picture of the Last Judgment, by Bronzlno. 220. The order of Elizabeth sent for Princess Metternich?Dr. Jaeger makes a sensation in Florence. 221. The portrait medallion presented for signing the marriage treaty?the expected arrival of the fleet. 222. The ladies in attendance on the Archduchess. 223. Plan of the journey. 24. To Leghorn?the island of Elba?the American Admiral's ship?arrival at Lucca?return to Florence. 225. Preparations for giving over the Archduchess?anecdote of Zlchy. 227. Arrival of the fleet ?Metternich's journey to Lucca. Metternich to his Wife, Padua, June 10, 1817. 214. I arrived here, as I intended, in the evening of the day before yesterday. I have always fancied, and I am quite sure now, that summer is the proper season for Upper Italy. There is as little resemblance between the country, the towns, everything, in fact, in winter and summer, as between a garden in November, during the fogs and mud of that season, nnd that same garden in the month of June. No one can form any idea of the beauty of the country; all the plantations, all the trees, which with us suffer from cold, wind, and dust, are in full vegetation; all the fields covered with flowers, all ...