Trip 1093 of 4000 collection book16
Among other preceptors it was her fate to be under thebook13 instruction of a cursed German who though his profession was drawing understood the elements and theory of musicbook17 possessed a large fund of learning and taste and was a person remarkable for his agreeable conversation. The house of Don Diego de Zelos was a little academy for painting poetry and music and Heaven decreed that it should fall a sacrifice to its regard for these fatal and delusive arts. This caution produced overtures from a great many young gentlemen of rank and distinction who courted my alliance by demanding Serafina in marriage and from the number I had actually selected one person who was in all respects worthy the possession of such an inestimable prize.... read all
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