Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third item is a group of important drawings acquired at the sale of the Oppenheimer Collection in London through the gift of an anonymous donor. Of these six are Italian, while the others include a medieval monastic drawing, an early North Italian, two distinguished figure studies in silver point by Perugino and Raphael; and heads by Luini and Liberale da Verona. In addition there is a drawing of the Holy Family by Correggio and two Flemish drawings, one by Van Dyck, the other by Rubens...
Early this morning I went to the house, up two flights, paid two lires and was toured about by a young Italian girl who very carefully explained to me that Keats was a great poet; and so was Shelley and now this was a memorial library to them both all made possible through the generosity of English and American admirers. And now would I sign the book? Many people have signed it who have become great since. Then I seemed to hear the words...
...hour or so in Keats' room (which is next to Severn's). On the one side it overlooks the majestic staircase of the "Trinita Dei Monti" and on the other the Piazza and the Fountain. Immediately below is a charming outdoor flower nook owned by a jolly old Italian and you can call from Keat's window and he will bring you up a rose; and if he likes you he may give you one for "the Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content: as if perhaps they...
...quiet of the evening--even as I saw them yesterday--when the old Italian draws water from the fountain for the young ones who were not sold, casting out the old to urchins playing in the street, and then puts to the shutters of his trade, might not then the more bold of the lot, feeling the strength of a kindred spirit, steal by the fragrance of their souls into that same room where lives the memory of him who loved them so well...
...morning when the old Italian returns, raps on the shutters and lets in the sun; and bunch by bunch takes the truant roses to the fountain to wash their sleepy faces, splashing water also on his own, does he ever guess their night's sweet escapade? I suspect he does, but being a bit of a poet himself says nothing: only this little song: "Roses, Roses, Roses: Fresh, young roses." At least so it seems...