...ly twenty years,—and whom Humboldt told me he considered eminently qualified to write a history of any part of the Peninsula,—said to me, Once a week I spend an afternoon with the Marquis Capponi to take a lesson in Italian history. Nobody knows it as he does. I speak to you at large about Capponi, because you are more interested in him, I suppose, than you are in anybody else in Floren...