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12 July 1912 — Mezzaratta, Bologna | |
Friday. 12th [July 1912]. I found Da Laura sitting out working in the shade just outside the long drawing room window at 9 a.m. & there we remained till lunch at 12.30. Afterwards we rested in our rooms & at 5 met again for tea on the terrace. I then walked down the hill to Villa Caldesi to pay a visit to Sigra Caldesi & to thank her for having found me a maid one Anna Barevelli who is to come to me at Venice next week. Senator Ciamician came to dine with us & afterwards in the long drawing room read to us there a discourse he is going to America to read at New York at a Congress. It is on the way of producing combustibles to replace coal—by the sun’s rays on desert places. It was so clearly written that even I a foreigner could follow the discourse. He says it is a theory wh may some day be put into practise. He left at 10.30 & we went to bed & I to sleep after a combat with an immense flying beetle which had got into my room attracted by the light thro’ an open window. I caught it with my handkerchief & ejected it. | |
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