- Performer Name:
- Corilla Olimpica
- Performance Venue:
- Florence
- Performance Date:
- Author:
- Gray, Robert
- Date Written:
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- Letters during the Course of a Tour through Germany, Switzerland and Italy
- Article Title:
- Page Numbers:
- 327-8
- Additional Info:
- Publisher:
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1794
Text:
[327] We have spent one evening at the celebrated Corilla's, where Nardini and others were present. She is now grown very old, and has lost, in some degree, those powers which obtained her a public crown of honour at Rome. As she is in great affliction for the loss of a friend, her mind, she told me, is naturally bent on sorrowful themes. At our desire she recited two sonnets with great spirit; one on the death of Mengs the painter, [328] the other to the memory of the empress Maria Theresa.
The Italians have not lost the art of uttering unpremeditated verses. We were waited on by one immediately on our arrival at Milan, who addressed us with much fluency on our arrival.
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