... an unhappy position, and his whole air and manner to-day seemed to me to show that he feels it to be an anxious one. . . . . November 15.—I passed some time this morning with the Cavaliere Micali , a very lively and courtly little old gentleman, who is as full of knowledge of all sorts, from his Etruscan antiquities down to the commonest gossip of the day, as a man well can be. He carried me f...