CHAPTER XVI.
FEBRUARY 6, 1830--JUNE 15, 1830 Serra Palace in Genoa .-- Starts for Rome .-- Rain in the mountains .-- A brigand .-- Carrara .-- First mention of a railroad .-- Pisa .-- The leaning tower .-- Rome at last .-- Begins copying at once .-- Notebooks .-- Ceremonies at the Vatican .-- Pope Pius VIII .-- Academy of St.Luke's .-- St.Peter's .-- Chiesa Nuova .-- Painting at the Vatican .-- Beggar monks .-- _Festa_ of the Annunciation .-- Soiree at Palazzo Sunbaldi .-- Passion Sunday .-- Horace Vernet .-- Lying in state of a cardinal .-- _Miserere_ at Sistine Chapel .-- Holy Thursday at St.Peter's .-- Third cardinal dies .-- Meets Thorwaldsen at Signor Persianis's .-- Manners of English, French, and Americans .-- Landi's pictures .-- Funeral of a young girl .-- Trip to Tivoli, Subiaco .-- Procession of the _Corpus Domini_ .-- Disagreeable experience.