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SD2445. Journal Entry of Ferdinand Gregorovius

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 285 (in part).

Rome

May 13. [1861]

… A few days ago I made the acquaintance of Andersen, the writer of fables. He looks uncouth and clumsy, and is very vain; but his vanity, which is devoid of arrogance, resembles that of a child. At an evening party he read three little pieces; it was amusing to listen to these innocent fables about cockchafers in Rome. The poet Browning, and a Norwegian poet, Biörnson Biornstine, of whom I know nothing, were also present.

Text: The Roman Journals of Ferdinand Gregorovius, ed. Friedrich Althaus, trans. Mrs. Gustavus W. Hamilton, London, 1907, p. 134.

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