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29 June 1896 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Monday. 29th June [1896]. I got up at 7. Read Dante. Down to breakfast at 8 & Cortelazzo was down also– Sat & talked with him for an hour & looked at his works of art which he has brought to this house for safety having taken them away from an antiquity shop where he had placed them for sale & which is not a very solid affair on acct of the camorra now being carried on & which is ruining the trade of this town. Then came Signor Meale a Judge at Milan whom we had known 3 years ago. He told me he had been very ill with his head (which seemed like madness) for 2 years that now he was quite recovered & had brought me a pamphlet he had published under the nom de plume “Umano” & was trying to get up an Asylum for the rebels to religion a sort of monastery where men may come & study & search out a form of religion wh may agree with modern science. He asked me what I thought. I confessed that I thought it not practicable & that truth would always make its way without such institutions. He told me that he thinks of going to England & asked me for letters of introduction & said that he owed all his thought & brain work to England & the study of English. He said he had thought all our freedom & prosperity was the result of our good institutions but on living in England he had come to the conclusion that it was a matter of race & training—or atavism. After a long talk he departed & I promised to give him a letter to Mrs Humphry Ward– Wrote some letters. Lunched alone & at 4 I went out called on Mrs Bronson & Css Canevaro but neither were at home & so I went to the Eden’s garden where met Css Brazza & her mother, Baron Krauss & Sigr Manati & Css Olga Mocenigo. I took the latter home—abt 7. Visit from Iduna Bel & Aimée Cariati & Olga Mocenigo came in with her daughter Valentine. Dined along. Patience in evening & early to bed. | |
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