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Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f nature. I think no one has ever heard Count Greppi say a word against anybody, yet his character is by no means banal, for he has a quick wit and a pretty repartee. I remember at a dinner I gave in Rome I was very undecided as to the seating of my distinguished guests, and I said to Count Greppi, to whom I had given the second place, having placed a former Minister of Foreign Affairs at my right, that I hoped I had made a correct diagram for my table, but felt that I was very liable to error in a foreign land. You have given me quite the place you should have, said Count Greppi, but any place at your table, dear Madame, is a place of honor. If we all could live to be ninety-two, and be as much sought for, admired, and really beloved, what a wonderful world it would be! I remember one night in Rome, when His Royal Highness the Count of Turin was dining at the Hotel Excelsior, and taking his coffee in the large, spacious palm garden of that hotel, people turned in surprise to see the Royal Prince (240)
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AND COUNTRY SEATS leave his table, rush out into the hall, and throw both arms around Count Greppi in an affectionate embrace. What Royalty feels, I think everyone who knows Count Greppi feels: a sincere affection, a simpatia for this gallant old gentleman, who never misses the first night at the opera, who attends all the balls, though, of course, his dancing days are over, who dines out generally six nights out of the seven in Rome, and comes back each season to his special apartment built for him in the Excelsior Hotel, with as fresh enthusiasmas any debutante. The Countess Cammarata, who is visiting the Marchesa for a few days, Donna Mina Sala, Count and Countess Lurani, and Count Arnaboldi with his daughter the Princess di Palazzolo, who had come over from their Castello di Carimate near by, made a very jolly luncheon party. The table decorations at allthese luncheons, dinners, and teas seemed to vary in their artistic combination as much as the villas themselves, and today the table was curi

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