A Piombino sent his ambassador to the conference at Vienna, allowing L4,000 for the expenses of the mission.

A Borghese gave the mob of Rome a banquet that cost L48,000, to celebrate the return of Pius VII.

Almost all the Roman princes open their palaces, villas, and galleries to the public.

To be sure, old Sciarra used to sell permission to copy his pictures, but he was a notorious miser, and has found no imitators.
They practise generally the virtue of charity, in a somewhat indiscriminate manner, from the love of patronage, from pride, habit, and weakness, because they are ashamed to refuse.

They are by no means badly disposed, they are good--I stop at this word, lest I should go too far.
They are not wanting in sense or intelligence.