CHAPTER XIX.

A prophetic dream--Giovanni Strazza--Signor Vonwiller and societies for promoting art--Return from Naples to Rome, and my daughter Luisina's illness--Our return to Florence--Death of Tria the model--The Mossotti monument at Pisa--How it was that I did not make the portrait of his Majesty the King--The competition for Cavour's monument--I go to Turin to pass judgment on it--The "Christ after the Resurrection," a commission of Signor Filippi di Buti--Religious art and Alessandro Manzoni and Gino Capponi--Thought is not free--Cavour's monument--The description of it, 365