| Show I Entrancing En Stories of Greatest Poet Our European Literary Letter Leiter Special Correspondence UME m Aug ug SO Olt OIt It may be roughly I ROME Ro R said raid that to 10 the halt half of ot Intelli Intelligent intelligent gent Italy hall Ital Is IB IsIO a alieu hero lieu IO a god a being who rho can call di do dino tJ dono no wrong while to 10 the other half he h l la In b ba Ina I a bear who Minus his claws clas when heo nut not I kit alone l under all aspects a p 1 stands al at atthe althe the herd head of ot the Italian poets po t Ills prose proe while hll marked by h strength and good sense Is quite Inferior to his po flO poet et stir Ir work he Is i liar r excellence a poet Stall Small In stature with pith I a broad figure rough beard sport short I ort and square like Its lis owner a shock chock of ot white hair ho he looks look more like Ilk a philosopher than a n weaver t of or does doe not lend himself to tl light anecdote and description lie He Is la It laa t It a poet of ot high Ideals pod and lofty lort form with a II rut past which does docs him credit for tor Its HI patriotism and sobriety and nn an old age of ot modest modost competency and peace The great man mall began life lire on July Jul at al Val RI dl rastello In the Pisa Pilla district and anti therefore In Tuscany HK Ill father ather was a physician lh of It modest St moans mares half haIr revolutionary who gave his tons eons n a on education and theo then expected them to fend for themselves was scarcely out of or college when he hc married at R I the age of or 21 I Kl El VIra vlra Ira n a distant relative After Arter Instructing the youth of o Flor Florence Florenee ence enee he hI went as all professor to Bologna where there he hI hits has been ever fr since Inre There Then Th fl Is isan nn In interesting description II of or his hi first appearance before lib hl pupils there Thi rhe ages i of f the tOys boys ranged anywhere from runt II It yesra to l 17 Ii and the they knotting that one ont professor had lad refused to go 10 goto goto to Bologna because 1 he hp feared that he would ouM be whistled down by b them were ready Wady for any mischief IIII and consider themselves the of or the Ih fate of ot their professors To them one 1111 day till nine came n a little man with abundant bUck black blackhair hair standing up UI all nil over his bin head heRd and anda II II tl a II brusque manner The contrast be he between e tween the master to whom whoa they had been accustomed d for rol years ears a tall tail ele ste elegant J gent gant man between en a II military officer and a II troubadour was 1111 so 54 striking that It II produced a smile un III That smile smite was waa fatal tatal The little man curried carried a no theater hat hatIn hatin In his hIli hand one ono of or the kind which dOlled closet aril and opened with lIh a n spring and In I this he hp nourished flourished as h he began hegan till his lecture The smiles broad broadened broadened ened In proportion r to the smile the flourishes grew rel more pronounced until there re was wall a II confused M vision of or n a face red with Indignation circles made by bya byR a R big hll bl hat from the he midst of or which a small sall and trembling voice due dur to 10 what the students took to be ho timid timidity ity ii II but which was In reality rare race A Aloud AMud Mud loud laugh was a not to be bl suppressed ss II stud 1111 the day was as won on for tor the students stopped suddenly gathered up till his hili papers opened the absurd hat h with a click clrk clapped It on his hl head and rushed from rein the hall hail swearing IK lac h leave Bologna However jJ ow Ir the rector of oC the university ty ly Interfered explained who the new or was am and the students t much mill mm h hIrn Impressed Irn d asked Rk for tor for forI their hell I rudeness l and peace was latched hatched up Now lint ortt 0 years later Inter the th groat man mall liters enters the th lecture I ture room moor In hi inthe the midst of or silence be he c and revered t by b his pupil pupils to the verve vrr of or lUll Ills lectures art arc listened to is though dropping from the mouth of or a god 1011 and taken as lIS the HIt laws lawn of If f the Ihl Modes and Persians Persian V chief characteristics are hi his hill bursts bunts of or rape mite and nn his love 10 of ot being left alone which latter to tn churlishness These outbursts usually take place Ila In to the 1111 lecture 1 lur room nt as out outside tide side he is III rarely crossed or given oc 0 caslon for tor anger except when hell he ht finds himself being In gazed t at Ht curiously or someone ml taking a II snapshot enal hot of fit him then his hili Indignation know a no in bounds It molt mu t however be said that the Ihl storm once ome 0 over oer he hp Is 18 Incapable of hearing malice mallef and aud Is I absolutely childlike In leis his III generosity generally It and forgiveness fori If there lucre Is III one thing above all others other which h hr cannot endure and never neer penults It Is strangers coming to tn MB his lectures not to listen hut but bullo to look al at him kin This Thi he cannot entirely avoid ni as II the tenures lei at lit the Ihl university are public hut but woe M to tn the tho person who rotate comes tale late or r does d not 1101 attend to what Is III being sold On one occasion a II certain deputy dropped In almost alm ot at the last mo moment mom moment ment m nt 1 stopped In the middle of o n a sentence and Invited him to leave as R he hp was disturbing the th students This the th deputy som somewhat nettled n ettl Id refused to it do but Lut on b being asked for the third time limp and 1100 finding himself thus thull un 1 artty arHy arI conspicuous he went out and lind latr wrote n a Utter letter r to 10 the poet poel In which h he qualified him as an All unmannerly I p person The case cue got Jot Into the Ih paper aril became beams a S cau cause e celebre the Whole trell trello if o the country being divided into Inlo two amps Rm the only serene erene person l being himself I remember a 1 snowy noW wintry day In da not nil IP ig ego ago when I happened to hf be pass pare passing I ing In the Hi prot professors ors orl bou house o Just Jut as he hI wa was aJ leaving ieving In II II it lie He slipped Flipped f 1 and fell and as a I I him to rte rise rl I heard rota Nm Kne tro etro g language His Ilia mental equilibrium at I ale aIM up upset upsel et and all by b the time lime he hI reached m hed t i r university he hf was WI In the Ihl wn or Ot t of f I amorn However u h hI began h hs b blure I lure tur tUI which Wall wag oo os h when hen Ith art aft I II ir it I r H II few t words h he picked p up the book and ad 12 en e n tt ih nil II isle his might ml hl into he p r 11 c r e students tm 1 I r 7 t s I I 1 hr gray felt feltt al t III tar t l kick I and left leCt JV say I r 1 with lIh d tI s x 1 Ko more lectures lecture I t hue He II this thi Weather lau lasts and nd d parted n r showing howla hit his f fa face ce again for over OV T A i t p i th Ih reputation m mA may j be bt Id to 10 toc tor c r bw IJ eun nirh th his ewe to III ran Tie 1 u is title wg w aa a suggestive lb the e III I I 1 rl hll t and the mtr matter I lees dar Il than I might hare hll been exported pwe I I K Li 1 written a f poem 1 to II Italy Ial or the pops pope pop he might have ha been admired d but would not net I have been read As S It I was 08 he roused curiosity and 81 satisfied It I His lt Ills Satan Is I the thc clas classical cUR spIrit of or revolt to which we owe oe the Ih Reformation and Renaissance The Theole sole ole Inconvenience which this celebrated ed td poem oem brought to 10 Its 18 author was the reputation of ot being tho the devils dlo advocate rate MIl lose u reputation which he will 11 never The fhe most romantic episode of or his hi life le nan waa WOI his conversion years ears ago 1110 from ruin Republicanism to Monarchism powerfully power powerfully fully aided thereto It I Is U said by b the tho ot of Queen Cadu 1 had lead always been distin distinguished dl distinguished d for tor the fervor ten of or his convIe convictions lions and the th vigor Igor with which lie le expounded Ix them and of these c the tho chief was tits IS Republicanism Ht It I so 10 hap happened petted that the beautiful Queen Mar Ia and the great gre poet pet met IntI summer after uter summer lumme at lt the same ame place The queen quen made no tie secret of or tier her lon ton for his hi poetry end and Ild her respect for forthe forthe the nun man himself eJ This notwithstanding ing In his hla sturdy Burd good sense senst Mattered flattered him hll and It was as not long before an 81 audience was A arranged at al which her majesty mew met mehim him with a 1 quotation from his hla own on poems f on 01 her lips and S spoke ke of or hi hiI hid work with such appreciation and pene relle penetration penetration that he hc capitulated then and there th and has hll ever slice aluce been bern a II firn Monarchist The was perpetu perpetuated perpetuated elu by b one of or his hl most magnificent poems addressed to Queen en entitled Eterno Resale Regale which brought brough such uch a 1 storm about abul his hla ears eu that they tl tingled Un but he he h stoutly touty to his hla new nl creed and after a shared share by b MM friend fiend and h he h her I l 1 never noer slice changed Queen Quen Margherita later laler a 1 t tRO RO ao so proved her admiration and OT an al thin t n In II a very ver practical way 3 HH Hat lived In any nn an other county a would null today toda bo ho a rich man but bUI being belt tt 1 Italy It a I he hc Is IH almost as poor as at II the i r iJ ginning of his Ida career Needing morn more to make a discreet provision for smithy family as u he has now no reached old odd a a r he lie proposed to sell sel the tho darling ot of e I Ins u h hert rt his really all magnificent ma Ibra libra y i r ri Hearing this Queen at i forward ofard and bought bOi Ih I It II outright fir r r generous sum um on n condition that t poet poe should continue to 10 u Ut use e It II fr Ar r I t I rest reel of ot his life At the lre same name time tn n eri i bought the house where herl he lie now nw L I Ire f i leaving It I to him rent fent free tret all d I such a I delicate manner that proud Prud a 8 ea he lu Is ho he feels no obligation and nor or ships ship his mistress more profoundly f ihm over aver hall hail three children n i t daughters and 1 a ton son ll Dante the tart h t of or whom died In childhood Tho rho daun dagi tern Irs In n due time lino married and 1 him with seven lern grandchildren u Um i whom he hc dotes doles but not 1101 one of ot wi WIIt seems to have hoe Inherited any ni special rr d le I alone for writing One before closing One of ot the firmest d dl i likes of ot l career has hall been bel th tit h autograph hunter by I whom he has he r tl much bothered and what ht he culls calls st n th v y volumes for special occasions It I Is or or record lLord that he has hl only once Olce given t u as a t In hr the matter of o an autograph It that a special volume was ivus publish l for tor Christina on the of or page honor o r which was IS n n poem bv by H h Indignation was 11 and the nett I 4 person It OI who ho asked l tl for a an X autograph got gol the following 1 i Everyone knows that thaI I 1 will Jerone I nor Ml n i write for rubbish Now Ol 1 I appear a as I U it writer In a n special volume of ot this d j There Is la to 10 be Ie done and i ot et log Ing in left ler for rOI mo me II but bul to tu admire the Ihl um quad jil it k kle tiers new le nf ot hand mid and Ild anal nant of or ma Ina which line hn taken my work and acid 11 rut rul It ducci whore where I do du not lot ant It h I t ar IS 1 L IA O 1 R r |
