Walks in RomeHare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert)
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Walks in Rome
Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert)
Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel
"Suivant un manuscrit de la bibliothèque Alfieri, un jour, pendant
qu'il était dans la chaire des Saints-Apôtres, un billet cacheté
lui fut remis; Frère Félix l'ouvre et y lit, en face d'un certain
nombre de propositions que l'on disait être extraites de ses
discours, ce mot écrit en gros caractères: MENTIRIS (tu mens). Le
fougueux orateur eut peine à contenir son émotion; il termina son
sermon en quelques paroles, et courut au palais de l'Inquisition
présenter le billet mystérieux, et demander qu'on examinât
scrupuleusement sa doctrine. Cet examen lui fut favorable, et il
lui valut l'amitié du grand inquisiteur, Michael Ghislieri, qui
comprit aussitôt tout le parti qu'on pouvait tirer d'un homme dont
les moindres actions étaient empreintes d'une inébranlable force de
caractère."--_Gournerie._
In this church is buried the young Countess Savorelli, the story of
whose love, misfortunes, and death, has been celebrated by About, under
the name of _Tolla_ (the Lello of the story having been one of the
Doria-Pamfili family).
"The convent which Tolla had sanctified by her death sent three
embassies in turn to beg to preserve her relics: already the people
spoke of her as a saint. But Count Feraldi (Savorelli) considered
that it was due to his honour and to his vengeance to bear her
remains with pomp to the tomb of his family. He had sufficient
influence to obtain that for which permission is not granted once
in ten years: the right of transporting her uncovered, upon a bed
of white velvet, and of sparing her the horrors of a coffin. The
beloved remains were wrapped in the white muslin robe which she
wore in the garden on the day when she exchanged her sweet vows
with Lello. The Marchesa Trasimeni, ill and wasted as she was, came
herself to arrange her hair in the manner she loved. Every garden
in Rome despoiled itself to send her its flowers; it was only
necessary to choose. The funeral procession quitted the church of
S. Antonio Abbate on Thursday evening at 7.30 for the Santi
Apostoli, where the Feraldis are buried. The body was preceded by a
long file of the black and white confraternities, each bearing its
banner. The red light of the torches played upon the countenance of
the beautiful dead, and seemed to animate her afresh. The piazza
was filled with a dense and closely packed but dumb crowd; no
discordant sound troubled the grief of the relations and friends of
Tolla, who wept together at the Palazzo Feraldi....
"The Church of the Apostoli and the tomb of the poor loving girl,
became at certain days of the year an object of pilgrimage, and
more than one young Roman maiden adds to her evening litany the
words, 'St. Tolla, virgin and martyr, pray for us.'"--_About._
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