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This want of familiarity with Italian proves how little mere travellers and haunters of _pensioni_ ever know of the middle-class inhabitants of the country.
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_pensioni_ at Capri, Castellamare, Pompeii, Sorrento, and Salerno, -- the giddiness of all the widows, the cunning of the young girls, the wickedness of the wives, and the barefaced or clever intriguing of husband-hunting mammas.
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_pensioni_ that we needed only to glance at the set of each one's gown and the tint of her cheek to know if HE were still present and wooing or had faithlessly ridden away.
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(vol.i. p. 371) to Jacques Leschassier, dated December 22, 1609, should be studied by those who wish to penetrate the '_reserve ed altre arcane arti_,' the '_renunzie_', '_pensioni_' and '_altri stratagemmi_,' by means of which the Papal Curia, during the half-century after the
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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