“Pulci and I are
waiting for you with impatience; but I suppose we must give way to the attraction of the
Bolognese galleries for a time. I know nothing of pictures myself, and care almost as
little; but to me there are none like the Venetian—above all, Giorgione. I remember well his Judgment of Solomon in the Mariscalchi in Bologna. The real mother is
beautiful, exquisitely beautiful. Buy her, by all means, if you
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“I have more of Scott’s novels (for surely they are Scott’s) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even prefer them to his poetry, which (by the way) I redde for the first time in my life in your rooms in Trinity College.
“There are some curious commentaries on Dante preserved here, which you should see. Believe me ever, faithfully and most affectionately,
