In Lombardy there was the _foreign tyrant_.

At Naples Italians deal with Italians; and the Austrian influence is _indirect_.
So also at Rome.

It is this which makes the difficulty of dealing with Southern Italy and the difference of treatment which you observe in certain French papers.
I am sure, though you don't like photographs, you say, that you will find nothing lacking in what we send you and dearest Nonno of our Penini.

It isn't like him, it's himself.

As for me, I murmur, in the depths of my vanity, that like the Emperor Napoleon (and the devil) I'm not so black as I'm painted; but I forgive everything for Pen's sake.
Robert is not very favourably represented, I think.