Romano, Correggio, Parmegiano. The other day a curious instance of this occurred to me in taking the testimony of a Roman coachman. On being called upon to give the names of some of his companions, with whom he had been in daily and intimate intercourse for more than two years, he could give only their _soprannomi_; their real names he did not know, and had never heard. A little, gay, odd genius, whom I took into my service during a _villeggiatura_ at Siena, would not answer to his real name, Lorenzo, but remonstrated on being so called, and said he was only _Pipetta_, (The Little Pipe,) a nickname given to him when a child, from his precocity in smoking, and of which he was as tenacious as if it were a title of honor. "You prefer, then, to be called Pipetta?" I asked. "_Felicissimo! si_," was his answer. Not a foreigner comes to Rome that his name does not "suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange." Our break-jaw Saxon names are discarded, and a new christening takes place. One friend I had who was called _Il Malinconico_,--another, _La Barbarossa_,--another, _Il bel Signore_; but generally they are called after the number of the house or the name of the street in which they live,--_La Signora bella Bionda di Palazzo Albani_,--_Il Signore Quattordici Capo le Case_,--_Monsieur_ and _Madama Terzo Piano, Corso_. But to return from this digression.--At every country festival may be seen a peculiar form of the lottery called _Tombola_; and in the notices of these _festas_, which are always placarded over the walls of Rome for weeks before they take place, the eye will always be attracted first by the imposing word _Tombola_, printed in the largest and blackest of letters. This is, in fact, the characteristic feature of the _festa_, and attracts large numbers of _contadini_. As in the ordinary lottery, only ninety numbers are played. Every ticket contains blank spaces for fifteen numbers, which are inserted by the purchaser, and registered duly at the office or booth where the ticket is bought. The price of tickets in any single _Tombola_ is uniform; but in different _Tombolas_ it varies, of course, according to the amount of the prizes. These are generally five, namely,--the _Ambo_, _Terno_, _Quaterno_, _Cinquino_, and _Tombola_, though sometimes a second _Tombola_ or _Tomboletta_ is added. The drawing takes place in precisely the same manner as in the ordinary lottery, but with more ceremony. A large staging, with a pavilion, is erected, where the officers who are to superintend the drawing stand. In the centre is a glass vase, in which the numbers are placed after having been separately verified and proclaimed, and a boy gayly dressed draws them. All the ninety numbers are drawn; and as each issues, it is called out, and exhibited on a large card. Near by stands a large framework, elevated so as to be visible to all, with ninety divisions corresponding to the ninety numbers, and on this, also, every