CHAPTER XI.

Close imitation from life--My illness--I am in danger of losing my life--Luigi del Punta, head physician at Court--The Grand Duke furnishes me with the means for going to Naples--I leave for Naples--A beggar impostor--Another and my boots--Sorrento--My Neapolitan friends--Professor Tartaglia and the hydropathic cure--The museum at Naples--Let us study the good wherever it is to be found--A strange presentation, 203