Fine ever.

Worked at Sandbach’s Palermo.

Macbeans. Much uneasiness about the street row ― …

Letter from C. Fortescue ― kindly & nice as ever. ―

Returned & worked again off & on at the Palermo till 5.

Various folk called. Col. Bowen. ― Maj.r Reynolds & Miss Yates, who bought my Janina for £35 ― frame included. Mr. Jervoise, & later Macbean. R. Cholmondeley also.

At 5½ or 6 walked in the Borghese.

Dined alone. Young Reilly came, & I read Guinevêre to him, wh. is assuredly a wondrous pome. ―

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X9

Bad wicked life.

Rose fervently ― nonostante. & Worked at S. Sabbas more or less all day.

Going out at 12 to Macbeans, ― heard of the row in the Corso last night. ― The was a great “demonstration” of young men ― 4 a 4 abreast ― (Garibaldi’s birthday,) ― & much fuss thereby. At the P. Colonna, 2 or 3 it seems called out V. Manuello,¹ & were arrested: but the gendarms let them go, on F. persuasion, whereat the populace hissed the Gendarms. ― Shortly after, some 10 or 20 G. rode out of the M. Citorio, & down the Corso, ― stabbing & “a casa, canaglia,”² ― on all sides. 3 F. soldiers, & 1 F. officer, & some 10 or 15 Romans were wounded. ― The excitement is great to day.³

Worked at home till 5. Dessoulany called, & cheered me by his natural & straight way’d admiration of my paintings. ―― Called on the Knights ― on Helen K. & walked a bit in the Borghese.

Dined alone.

Cholmondeley came, an excitable & enthusiastic fellow, ―: I had called on him at 1 or 2 & saw his brother, a R.C. Priest.

also called on P. Williams.

George is livelier & more studious to day.

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1. Vittorio Emanuele II, king of Sardinia and Piedmont, who was operating for a unification of Italy.
2. Go home, scoundrels.
3. For the Roman events of 19 March 1860, see R. Ambrosi de Magistris and I. Ghiron. Roma nella storia dell’unità italiana. Studio storico. Roma-Torino-Firenze: Fratelli Bocca, 1884, Vol. 2, pp. 372-6.

Slept always, & well!! ― & rose very late.

Nonostante,¹ cross ― & crosser that George had done no lessons, ― the fact in itself not vexatious, but his reason for so doing ― “mi c’entrava la testa, ch’era la Domenica, e stavo meglio far niente.”² ― as his best writing [evenings] had been ever Sundays ― this was absurd. Eyes bad, & could not work.

To Macbean’s but it was a fêsta:³ however I got some tin.

Returned, & worked very very little.

Mr. Parish came. Letter from V. Crake ―

And 6 papers ― sent from Dickenson, very obliging. ―

At 4½ or 5 called on P.W. ― & walked with him till 6½.

Dined alone.

And now to bed.

What a solitary, bad, foolish, unwholesome life!

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1. Notwithstanding which.
2. It entered my head that it was a Sunday, and I was better off doing nothing.
3. Holiday.

Church. Burgon is intolerable ― Lazarus & Dives,¹ ˆ[arguing that it was certain we should have all our members ― vide “the tip of my tongue.”]
Calls on Miss Cushman, & Macbeans.

Walked with Jameson to Tor di Schiavi.

Dined at the Bertie Mathews: ― very pleasant. ―

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1. Dives (the rich man who will be damned) and Lazarus (the poor man that is saved) were common figures in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century moralities and interludes.

Gray, cold, damp day.

To Macbeans, after working at the small Palermo.

Worked again at the little brute till 4½.

Then walked with P. Williams till 6½.

Dined alone. ―

Ομιλ ισα με τον Γεοργιον, δια τα πραγματα του Κορφου. ―¹

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1. But I speak to Giorgio about the things of Corfu (GT).

Cloudy all day, & after 3 wet.

Rose late. ―

Worked at small Palermo.

Cross, ill, & altogether odious.

To Macbean’s. ―

(Gave the porter 8 pauls ― he going away.)

Mr. & Mrs. Foster came, & I gave her a good little drawing of the Dead Sea ― much on account of her kind Aunt, & my recollection of her the year S.H. was married.

Worked on ―: ― ill & unhinged.

X7

Slept.

Rose & worked again till 5.

P. Williams came.

At 6 went to the Knights, & saw Helen & the Duchess. ― C. is gone to England.

Rain.

Dined alone. ― Read Bulwer’s life of Byron ― the best I have ever read: ― & thought a good deal on Annesley, & my old 1824 thoughts.

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Rose later, i.e. 7½. ―

Gray, finish, cloudy day.

Worked at the Appian Way picture ― only going at 11 to Macbeans. J. Gibson called.

Again working to 5½ ― then calling on Newton, who was busy with his boox ― & forming himself naturally into Roman Consular life.

Home by 6½.

Dined alone. & read Adam Bede, the most singular book one has read since Mrs. Gaskells, & C. Brontë’s. ―

G. vexes me by saying, one … [Pangroti], Corfioti, has told him so & so, at the “Collegio.” ――― whereas I thought he had “no friends” ― (as Lady C. Smith said) in the paese.¹

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1. Country.

Aperiently very fine. Rejolved to go to V. Appia, for the details of one of my “20 pictures.” So, first Macbeans, & then, at 11½, to the Coliseum, where G. was waiting for me. ― Then we walked out of the P. Sebastiana, & to the ruin I had to draw, by wh. time clouds had riz, & it began to rain & hail cats & dogs. So we had to shelter in a half tomb. ― G. talking of his wife said, dispiacque a mia madre che fosse Parguinota, e non Suliota.¹ Their eldest brother was killed by the Turx at Prevera in 1846 aged 31. The Mother has never ceased to “rammentar”² the fact. ― The Mother is & has always been a strictest disciplinarian: “ne Io, ne Spiro abbiam toccate donne prima di sposar.”³ ― But Χριζὺς is to be less spoken of: ― he, tho’ living with the rest, spends time on dissolute vimin. ― It ceased to rain at 2 ― & I got what outline I wanted: ― then wandered all along by the quarries, (by far the most beautiful bits of Roman Environs,) to the hills above Grotto Egeria, & so on, by the lane to the S. Gio. L. road, ― & wearily to V. Condotti by 6 or 6¼. Had a dinner from Spillman’s. Not well all day.

3 letters ― Ann, who has seen Sarah: ― it is a great pleasure that these sisters have met again, tho’ I share but little in the matter. ― R. Fowler ― D. still in England. & F.L. whose letter is very kind & nice. But the wretched Bassæ is still unhoused: the V. Chancellor having declared he can’t accept it without a “Competent voucher.” ― So, one does not know if even it will be hung at all.

Which fully accounts for my being half asleep. ―

Reading Adam Bede.⁴

X5 ?

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1. My mother was sorry she was a Parguinote and not a Suliot.
2. Remember.
3. Neither Spiro nor I ever touched a woman before getting married.
4. George Eliot’s first novel, published in 1859.

Truth is truth.

Gray fine cold day.

Suddenly, resolved to cover the 2nd canvass, & outlined (painfully,) a S. Sabbas, & worked at it till 12. Macbeans ― no papers.

Letters from Mrs. G. Clive ― as always, nice, & from Ann ―

Sarah has arrived! 7 years away! ― for it was in 1852 ― Feby ― that I went down to Gravesend to see her off.

Worked again till nearly 5 & very well.

Walked alone to ½ mile on the P. Pia road.

Dined alone. ― Wrote alone. Drew alone ― at Musters S. Sabbas. ―

All things are alone. ―

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Rose before 7 ― gray ― cleary ― finy.

G.’s lessons, how this diligent man, at 38 has learned to write & read!!!

Worked at the Janina Mosque.

At 12 went to Macbeans ―. ―

At 1 worked till 4 ― at the Jannina, & other paintings.

Then went to Newton, & walked with him to Storys, who, with us, went to the P. Pia road: we had a good deal of pleasant & “profane” conversation. S.’s account of the wood carving at Chartres ― (subject the M.ˇ[lous] conception,) was very amazing & amusing.

Newton is the most interesting fellow ― but his life here is sad to think of ― onward. He is 45.

Returned at 6½ dined alone.

Worked for 2 hours at Musters’s S. Sabbas.

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