, 1872-12-26
TH0RWAL LDSEN'S LOVES,

How a Splendid italian Brunette En-
| thra1lcd fHim--EIia Affection fo1
! mtss Mackenzie.
Great loves have been often the inspiration OF
great men. Petrarch tuned bis Tyre for Laura, and
| sung himself into Immortality. Dante WAS in
! splred OF Beatrice Is we'll as OF Heaven, and
looks up toward her forever Michael An.
gelo loved VittoEia Oolonna with a love
as large as his genius, as steadfast and as no
bic as his nature. But there are loves which
debaso, as did that which was the one blot upon
the fame Of Nelson. OF this nature was the
love which Thorwaldsen conceived for Anna
Maria Magnani: She Was not noble enough to
ment at last his Nemesis. She was Roman
girl Of humble station-a lady's maid.
indeed, to the signora zoesa, at whose
house the sculptor was an honored guest
eyes, and carried her head as proudly as :
Princess in q picture; and the Italian blood
vas WARN in her veins. Thorwaldsen WAS about
81 then,-he did not mature early,-but he had
still youthful anc delicate beauty, not uncom-
mon among the natives OF the North. His light
hair, his clear complexion, his blue eyes, formed
an admirable contrast to the girls tru-
nette charms. She was the first to fall
I'll n love, but presently, the passion mas
came his mistress. It was not long, however,
before, impatient to improve her condition, she
made 8 neW conquest and married man Of
higher rank and amp1er means than those Of
her artist lover. Her relations with the sculp-
tor were scarcely interrupted, but the young
Dano, being of more sensitive nature than
the lady, suffered cruelty; and when the BRIDE
groom carried of his wife to Florence, fell
seriously s5: IL; Anna Maria had not the
she had married simply because abe WAS anxious
to rise from the humble station where her birth
had placed her. But as she was unwilling to
break the tie which bound her to the artist, she
was quite aware that she might sooner or Inter
he abandoned by her legal protector, She pre-
vailed, therefore, upon her lover, whose pros
poets OF -pecuniary SUCCESS had now somewhat
improved to enter into formal en-
gagemenE IN writing, to provide for her
band. Having thus put up her umbrella, she
did not care how quickly the storm burst. The
crlsls came at Florence, and WAS announced to
Ihorwalsden in document dated June IL, 1903.
It WAS summons in due legal form, command
Maria d'Unden, to appear forthwith and perform
the engagement entered into by him
with the lady aforenaid He acquitted
pm himself IT.. OF =, his obligations by Receiving
nss 6Ye into into his house: Once installed there,
jealousy until he must hare wished thousand
times that he could reverse Pygmalion, and turn
this woman into marble. Not even the birth of
q daughter, to whom Thorwaldson Was tenderly
attached, seems to hive ennobled the passionate,
undiaciplined Italian. Sometimes the sculptor
submitted to her; at others he broke his chains
and took vacation, from which however. he
ment. IVA
After fourteen or fifteen years OF THIS nnsatia-
actory life, real trouble came to Anna Siaria in
the shape OF two rivals. Hitherto her icalousies
oaa been untounded but Thorwaldsen conceiv- |
"a 60 sor1ons interest ia Miss Frances Mackeasie
aad well-born. Size was not remarkablo for her
beauty but che possessed q fine and cultivated