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MEMOIRS OF JACQUES
CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-
1798 TO PARIS AND PRISON,
Volume 2b--VENICE
THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF
1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO
WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS
DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
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VENICE
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CHAPTER X
My Stay in Vienna--Joseph II--My Departure for Venice
Arrived, for the first time, in the capital of Austria, at the
age of eight-and-twenty, well provided with clothes, but
rather short of money--a circumstance which made it
necessary for me to curtail my expenses until the arrival of
the proceeds of a letter of exchange which I had drawn
upon M. de Bragadin. The only letter of
mendation I had was from the poet a, of
Dresden,addressed to the illustrious Abbe Metastasio,
whom I wished ardently to know. I delivered the letter
the day after my arrival, and in one hour of conversation I
found him more learned than I should have supposed from
his works. Besides, Metastasio was so modest that at
first I did not think that modesty natural, but it was not
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long before I discovered that it was genuine, for when he
recited something of his position, he was the first
to call the attention of his hearers to the important parts or
to the fine passages with as much simplicity as he would
remark the weak spoke to him of his tutor Gravina,
and as we were on that subject he recited to me five or six
stanzas which he had written on his death, and which had
not been printed. Moved by the remebrance of his
friend, and by the sad beauty of his own poetry, his eyes
were filled with tears, and when he had done reciting the
stanzas he said,in a tone of touching simplicity,'Ditemi il
vero, si puo air meglio'?
I answered that he alone had the right to believe it
then asked him whether he had to work a
great deal pose his beautifu