“I enter the hall with the beautiful Donna Ignacia, we make several tours there, we meet everywhere a guard of soldiers with bayonets attached to guns, who w...

“Just at the door of the house we meet two sisters who enter looking more calm than sad. I see two beauties who surprise me, but most of all I am struck by o...

“Pogomas, who in Genoa called himself Passano, since everyone knew him, introduced me to his wife and his daughter, ugly, dirty and insolent. I quickly got r...

“At ten o'clock in the morning, refreshed by the pleasant feeling of being again in this Paris, so imperfect, but so captivating, so that no other city in th...

“I am 23 years old. The next night I had to perform a great operation, because otherwise I would have to wait for the full moon of the next month. I had to f...

“Having decided in advance to spend six months in Rome in complete tranquility, doing only what acquaintance with the Eternal City could provide me with, the...

“Yesterday,” she told me, “you left in my hands two portraits of my sister M. M., a Venetian. I ask you to leave them to me as a gift. - They are yours. - I ...

“This adventuress was a Roman, quite young, tall, well-built, with black eyes and skin of amazing whiteness, but that artificial whiteness that is characteri...

“I saw a shepherd on a hill fifty paces from me, accompanying a flock of ten to twelve sheep, and turned to him to find out the information that interested m...

“As for the reason for ordering my dear accomplice to leave the Republic, it was not a game, because the State Inquisitors had many means when they wanted to...

“I arrived in Ancona on the evening of February 25, 1744 and stayed at the best hotel in the city. Satisfied with my room, I told the owner that I wanted to ...

“The origins of my family go back to the fourteenth century and begin with a certain Pezolo dei Gozzi. The family tree, suitably cobwebbed, dusty, worm-eaten...