... Carmignani readily promised to send me his memoirs and papers to look over, and see what I can find in them . . . . The evening was made pleasant to us by a visit from Rosini, the author of the Monaca di Monza , of Luisa Strozzi, etc.,—a round, easy, good-natured, vain, and very agreeable person, about as old as Carmignani; somewhat jealous, as an author, of the reputation of Manzoni, Grossi, and the ...