CHAPTER XII.

Pompeii--A cameo--Sketch for the Bacco della Crittogama--Professor Angelini the sculptor--One must not offer one's hand with too much freedom to ladies--A hard-hearted woman with small intelligence--The San Carlo, the San Carlino, the Fenice, and the Sebeto--Monument by Donatello at Naples--The Barocco and mistaken opinions--_Dilettanti_ in the fine arts--Prince Don Sebastian of Bourbon--Is the beard a sign of being Legitimist or Liberal?--I am taken for a prince or something like one--"The bottle" for doorkeepers and _custodi_ of the public museums of Naples--Phidias, Demosthenes, and Cicero all against Ruggero Bonghi, 223