. American lands and letters. ce; following the court in itssuccessive migrations from Turin to Florence, andfrom Florence to Eome. His heart and all hismind wcre in the service ; the hills, the fir for-ests, the meadows of Clitumnus, Soracte, and theCampagna were all brotherly to him. I have such a passion, he says (in a letter of June,1865, to the present writer), for the nature of Italy, thatI do not see how I can ever live under another sky. . .Why did not Providence give us Alps and a good climate ? True, he had never visited Colorado, or the re-gion of the Lookout Mountain : But withal,
. American lands and letters. ce; following the court in itssuccessive migrations from Turin to Florence, andfrom Florence to Eome. His heart and all hismind wcre in the service ; the hills, the fir for-ests, the meadows of Clitumnus, Soracte, and theCampagna were all brotherly to him. I have such a passion, he says (in a letter of June,1865, to the present writer), for the nature of Italy, thatI do not see how I can ever live under another sky. . .Why did not Providence give us Alps and a good climate ? True, he had never visited Colorado, or the re-gion of the Lookout Mountain : But withal, thereis no let-up in his bold and aggressive Ameri-canism : Our recent history, he writes in language (not gaugedfor the public eye) that should make us pardon De Lomefor his private expression of likes and dislikes, is strikinga terrible blow at Europe; and I trust I may live to see theplaying at foot-ball witli coronets and mitres, crowns andtiaras, which the triumph of Democracy on our side will erelong occasion on 72 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. Unfortunately we can say little of that longperiod of diplomatic service ; he wrote nothingthat has been ijuhlished ; yet what a help to his-tory would lie in the diary of such an observer,noting the progress in the crystallization of thepopular and political forces of the Peninsula intoa new Italian kingdom ! AVe know that his appetite for the beautiful,whether in art or nature, never abated ; we I -^jwthat an old Cromwellian Puritanism in him alwaysgrowled (though under breath) at any invasionuj^on popular rights; Ave know that tiaras andmitres always had a pasteboard look to him ; weknow that courtesy and friendliness and lonltomiealways touched him, whether in kings or j^aupers ;we know that he greatly loved to inoculate allOiDen-minded, cultivated American travellers withhis own abounding love for Italian art and Italianhopes ; we know that the water-flashes of Tivolior Terni, or all the blues by Caj^ri, never wipedfrom hi
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