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19 February 1881 — Rome | |
Saturday. 19th [February 1881]. I went with Henry at 11 to Alessandro Castellani to make sketches of Venetian glass to be copied at Murano. Returned & lunched at 12.30 & directly after started for the Villa Campana & had a first sitting for a portrait of a boy. The girl who first sat to me being still ill in bed. At 3.30 Giovanni came & fetched me & I went to Palazzo Bonaparte to see the beginning of the Carnival from Mme de Westenberg’s rooms. She was most kind & we remained there to see the Barberi race. It was a curious sight to see the Corso which was crammed full of pedestrians suddenly clear as the riderless horses dashed madly past. We had a capital view as one cd see up the Corso & to the Ripresa de’ Barberi where the race ended. A gun was soon after fired & every one went home & Henry who had joined me at the Westenbergs took me home in a cab after we had had some tea. At 7 we dined at M. & Mme Pioda’s, the Swiss Minister’s whose daughter married Castellani of Venice. Met the Prime Minister & Mme Cairoli, the Minister of Finance & Mme Marliani, the Minister of Works &c. We were to have gone on to the Pagets but Henry complained of a stitch in his side so I made him go home & have on mustard poultices & go to bed. | |
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