Litchfield enquirer., 1832-10-18
E Fsoa the Ns.e. York zIlfirrer.


 a'@ 'IYiiiis's Lettsrs from Eascpes ' a}f s a*@f4tat %ias-.-44l-.- qs 5e9 9es gsss3t9 ts.a1's sas From khe Nssp. York ,Miyver. eBss,s9 rIRsT IMPRESSIONS OF EuRoPE,
 Florence. -It is among the pleasantest things in the very pleasant world, to find ones self for the first time ina very famous city. We sallied from the hotel this morn ing an n'hoar after our arrival, and stopped at the first corner to debate where we should go. could not help smiling at the magniicence of the alternatives. ," To the gallery of course,' said |, q to see the Ve- nus de Medicis.'' 'ssFo Santa Croee :" said oile, "sto sec the tombs of Michael An gelo, and Al6eri. and Machiavelli.'.' .To the Palazzo Pitti,'' said another, the Grand. Duke's palace. and the choicest collection of pictures in the world." The embarrassment alone was quite n sensation. The Venus carried the day. We cross ed the Pizza del Granducca, and inquired forth gallery. "A fine court was shown us, opening out from the same square, a. round the three sides of which stood fine uniform structure, with a colonade, the lower story occupied by shops and crowd ed with people. We mounted broad staircase, and requested ofihe soldier at the door, to be directed to the presence of the Venus without delay. Passing tlirougl, one of tie long wings of the gallery, with out even a glance at the statues, pictures, and bronzes that lined the walls, we arriv- ed at the door of a cabinet, and putting a. side the large crimson curtain at the en- trance, stood before the enchaHtress. ! must defer a description ofher., We spent al, hour there, bat, except that her divine beauty filled and satisfied my eye, Us noth- ing, else ever did, and that the statne Is as unlike thing to the casts one sees Of it Ss one thing could well be unlike another, ! made no criticism. There is an attnos- phere of fame and circumstantial interest about the Venus, which bewilders the 9fan- cy almost es much as her loveliness does the eye. asShe has been gazed upon and admired by troops ofspilgrinas, each ol whom it were worth half life to have met at her pedestal. The painters, the poets, the talent aud beauty that have come there from every country under the sun. and the single feeling of love and admiration tha she has breathed alike into all. ccnsecrat' her mere presence as asplace tor reycri' and speculation.a Childe Harold has beel here, I bought, and Shelly, and Words worth, and Moore. and, further remOvet from our sympathies, but Interesting still inc poets and scnlptors of another, age Michael. Angelo and Alfieri. the men q genius of all nations Fand times l; and tc stand tn the same spot, and to experience tlle same feeling with them is anfimagina. tive pleasure, it is true. but as truly q decr and real one. Exceeding, as the Venus does beyond@l competition, every image of floyelincss painted or sc0iptured that one has ever before seen, the fancy leaves the eye gazing upon It, and busies itself ire. sistibly ,wiih it's pregnant atmosphere o recollectiOns. At least x found it 90, aslt Iniust go there again and again before can look at the marble separately, aud will a merely admiring attentions - s.
 Three or four days have stolcn away, scarce Know how. I have seen but one or two things, yet have felt 50 unequal tt the description, that but for my promise should never write n line about ihem.-. Really, to sit down and gaze into one o 5A kttAW osid~Co tuk uW yss1UtS MtUs6 VsgW S0 ~, way and dream ofputting, into language iti color and expressi0n,. seems to me little short of fsupeflatise madness. ! only won der at inc divine faculty of sight. The dranght ofpIsasure seems 10 me immortal, and the eye the only Ganymede that can carry tho cup steadily in the mind. How shall begin to give yon an idea of the Fornarina2 What can ! tell syon of the St. J ohm in the desert, that can afford you aglimpso even of Raphael's inspired cre- ati0ns. ep Ass M
 Tmk TRIBUNE Is the name ofa snsaIl oc- tagUnai cabinet in inc gallery, devoted to tiie master pieces of the collection. There are five stafues, of which one is the Venus de Medicis.: and dozen or twenty pie lures, of which I have only seen as. yet Tisian's Two Venuses, and Raphael'si St. John and Fornarina. People walk through .hs other parts of the gallery, and pause here and fiiere' moment before U paint ing of statue but on the TriBAno they sit down, and you may wait hS1Ts before s chair is vacated, or often 6eIoFe ike occn- pant shows sigp of life, Every body seems entranced there. They get before d picture, and bury their seyssrip is. as ifit had turned them to stone. After the Ve-