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SKETCH OF MADAME GUICCIOLI,

BY LEIGH HUNT.

" Madame Guiccioli, who was at that time
about twenty, was handsome and lady-like, with
an agreeable manner, and a voice not partaking
too much of the Italian fervour to be gentle.
She had just enough of it to give her speaking a
grace. None of her graces appeared entire])
free from art ; nor, on the other band, did they
betray enough of it to give you an ill opinion of
her sincerity and good humour. I was told
tlmt her Romagnese dialect was observable ; but
tome, at that time, all Italian in a lady's mouth
was Tuscan pearl ; and she trolled it over her
lip, pure or not, with that sort of conscious grace
which seems to belong to the Italian language as
a matter of right. I amused her with speaking
bad Italian out of Ariosto, and saying speme for
speranza ; in which she good-naturedly found
something pleasant and pellegrino ; keeping all
the while that considerate countenance for which
a foreigner has so good reason to be grateful.
Her hair was what the poet has described, or
rather blond, with an inclination to be yellow ;
a very fair and delicate yellow at all events,
and within the limits of the poetical. She
had regular features, of the order properly
called handsome, in distinction to pretti-
ness or to piquancy; being well proportion-
ed to one another, large rather than other-
wise, but without coarseness, and more harmo-
nious than interesting. Her nose was the hand-
somest of the kind I ever saw ; and I have
known her both smile very sweetly, and look in-
telligently, when Lord Byron has said something
kind to her. I should not say, however, that she
was a very intelligent person. Both her wisdom
and her want of wisdom were on the side of her
feelings, in which there was doubtless mingled a
good deal of the self-love natural to a flattered
beauty. She wrote letters in the style of the
Academy of Compliments ;' and made plenti-
ful use, at all times, of those substitutes for ad-
dress and discourse, which flourished in Eng-
land at the era of that polite compilation, and
are still in full bloom in Italy.

And evermore
She strewed a ad rallegro after and before.'
In a word, Madame Guiccioli was a kind of
buxom parlour boarder, compressing herself ar-
tificially into dignity and elegance, and fancying
she walked, in the eyes of the whole world, a
heroine by the side of the poet. When I saw
her at Monte-Nero, she was in a state of excite-
ment and exaltation, and had really something of
this look. At that time also she looked no
older than she was ; in which respect a rapid and
very singular change took place, to the surprise
of every body. In the course of a few months
she seemed to have lived as many years. It was
most likely in that interval that she discovered
she had no real hold on the affections of her com-
panion. The portrait of her by Mr. West—
' in Alagdalen's loose hair and lifted eye.'
is flattering upon the whole—has a look of
greater delicacy than she possessed ; but it is also
very like, and the studied pretension of the atti-
tude has a moral resemblance. Being a half-
length, it shows her to advantage, for the fault
of her person was, that her head and bust were
hardly sustained by limbs of sufficient length."