On Thursday the Duchess Sermoneta gives another party for him, to which she has taken the fancy to ask all the ‘learned’ people in Rome. My poor Prince will not make much of them, but will be amused with many, especially with Donna Ursilia Lovatelli, who likes to converse in Sanscrit, and who had to be told that she must not bring with her more aides-de-camp than the Prince (four); as her ‘court,’ as she calls it, which likes to follow her, sometimes number sixty persons. Madame Minghetti will also bring her court, which is far more Bohemian, amusing and agreeable.
[Image: Mang, Michele & C., On Horse, circa 1850-1880]
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