New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-17

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'ne The more PRACTICAL though less poetic, beauty
Of the highly cultivated farms, which make q
garden OF Inc whole vallcy Of the Arno. EreTy
foot Of ground is turned to profitable account, for
the fields Of gram arc crossed by rows of olive
trees, and surrounded by mubcrrics, between
which hang the fes;oons OF the vine. The com
Portable and contented looks Of the peasantry are
tokens Of their prosperity, for which they are
chiefly indebted TO the wisdom and literally OF
their truly paiernal Government
LEOPOLD II.
The present Grant, Duke is q worthy successor
OF the firs. o.. his name in kindness and useful
moss, il not in talen,z. Though an Austrian
Prince, he is too liberal for his people, VINO often
opposc tie pli:l;.n,hrop:c Innovations which be
wishes &, establish. As M encouragement 20 Do
me. tic Manufactures whose value he justly ap?!c-
caic- he has cnnc5led two en;crp'sing foreigners;
a..e OF whom, Mr. Lar!e!cII, vas made Count Of
iionte Ceiboli, as token of the Grand Dukes
gratitude for his having established an cSpio'a
ton oil iJracic products; and the ether, VI. De
miGoG, was made Prince OF san Donate fof hav.
,ng founded a mandatory OF silk. In his pm
vate relations he is said to he irrcp.oachab e. ana
is an excellent husband ard father. Ills honesty
and uprightncss are particularly euosizcd by his
subjects and ore of them, with "hpin | entered
INTO conversation al & Cott, wound up his praise
by exclain.i..g, q it would be easier for me to
rob You than for the Grand Dake to commit an
inlus..cc"-not a very impressive antlthesis, since
| had no means Of Judging how easy robbing
might be to tic talkative stranger
Count Fassombroni, the Prime Minister, Is
very remarkable man, though his genius is here
50 cooped up, that Napoleon called him :" ar
reant dans un eni,eSol." He is fine example OF
the versatile powers Of the Italian mimi, when 1t
has space and liberty fer It's development. lie
is at once proiuund politician, al elegant poet,
witty man of the word, an acute mathemati
c!aa, and scientific engineer, In & Paris book
catalogue | find Fassombroni's " ilcmoral on
the principleo Of Virtual Velocity and Essay on
the Intensity Of Light" and BY his skilIu di-
rccton Of the great work Of draining the Vale OF
Chiana, lie has converted pest entail marsh
INTO ono Of the most fertile districts Of Tuscany
Though now 81 wears cid he has just obtained a
pize at Vienna for The best plan Of improving tie
river Brenla, and has finished poem upon Ar
chi.ncdos, Calico, and his other great fellow
mathematicians
The Phii Palace is the usual residence Of the
Grand Duke lis state apartments arc decorated
Nth more shan oFd;ua,y taste and spiendor, bat
It's great attraction u strangers is It's gallery OF
paintings, which contains five hundred pictures,
and not a bad one among them all. They fill a
dozen magnificent saloons, which are literally
opened 10 strangers without restriction, and the
guards Of honor at the door. between whom you
enter nnquestioncd, arc the only indications that
the palace and paintings arc private Royal prop
ertv 7 am well aware how unnteresting arc
pen and ink descriptions Of pictures, and hcw iu-
tile is the attempt to reproduce in the minds OF
those who have never seen them, the pleasure
which their study has given and | will therefore
barely allude to Titian's Bella" his Magdaien,
alnos, equal To the one at Venice; Michael An
rclo's Three Fates;" Guidos Cleopatra; Sal.
water Rosa's landscapes; Fra Battolomeos " San
Marco :" Ruysdaes waterfall, and the rest OF the
five hundred. But Raphacl's madonna csiIa
Seggiola cannot be thus hastily passed by. No
other picture is such a universal iavorle, and
copies Of it abound even in America, though none
Of the many which 1 have there seen at all aP-
proach the beauty Of the original. OF all the
Madonnas OF Raphael this is the only one w"lch
looks at YOU, and that she does in coquetiIsh
way, rs if she was saying, How do you like
me :" without any doubts as 10 what would be
the answer. y famous picture like this long
known By copies, is seen with redcubed pleasure,
as ii it were friend whom you had long known
by name and description and whose likeness you
had even seen, but whom you had at last melt IN
person and find surprising even your high
wrought expectations.
Canova's Venus stands in the centre of tic
'IIall OF Flora revolving on hcrPedestal 50 as TO
display her beauties il, every light, and she is
well worthy Of admiration even after seeing the
Venus de ilcdici, whom she replaced in the In
bunc, when the French invaders carried of the
Goddess TO Paris, whose namesake she had so
louo ano visited on Mount Ida. Beside the works
of HIGHER art are cabinets OF vases, gems, and an
,iques; and bath room lined with silk hangings
and guarded by four handicapped females, is
another item in this bewilderment Of tasteful lux
ury. 1t is no wonder that the dying Medici re-
piled 10 his con!cssor, who was describing to him
the spl,n9oy OF Heavenly mansions, My dear
friend, am quite content with the Fiji Palace'
Behind the Palace are the BOboli Gardens,
which spread over hill and valley with their uxu-
ran, beauties Broad avenues xind up the slope,
between green walls Of laurel which here grows
twenty feet high in al inpenelrab!e BODY, and is