The Pincian Hill is the favorite promenade3 of the Roman aristocracy. At the present day, however, like most other Roman possessions, it belongs less to the native inhabitants than to the barbarians4 from Gaul, Great Britain, anti beyond the sea, who have established a peaceful usurpation5 over whatever is enjoyable or memorable6 in the Eternal City. These foreign guests are indeed ungrateful, if they do not breathe a prayer for Pope Clement7, or whatever Holy Father it may have been, who levelled the summit of the mount so skilfully8, and bounded it with the parapet of the city wall; who laid out those broad walks and drives, and overhung them with the deepening shade of many kinds of tree; who scattered10 the flowers, of all seasons and of every clime, abundantly over those green, central lawns; who scooped11 out hollows in fit places, and, setting great basins of marble in them, caused ever-gushing fountains to fill them to the brim; who reared up the immemorial obelisk13 out of the soil that had long hidden it; who placed pedestals along the borders of the avenues, and crowned them with busts14 of that multitude of worthies—statesmen, heroes, artists, men of letters and of song—whom the whole world claims as its chief ornaments15, though Italy produced them all. In a word, the Pincian garden is one of the things that reconcile the stranger (since he fully9 appreciates the enjoyment16, and feels nothing of the cost) to the rule of an irresponsible dynasty of Holy Fathers, who seem to have aimed at making life as agreeable an affair as it can well be.
In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perhaps with medals of Algiers or the Crimea on their breasts. To them is assigned the peaceful duty of seeing that children do not trample17 on the flower beds, nor any youthful lover rifle them of their fragrant18 blossoms to stick in the beloved one’s hair. Here sits (drooping upon some marble bench, in the treacherous19 sunshine) the consumptive girl, whose friends have brought her, for cure, to a climate that instils20 poison into its very purest breath. Here, all day, come nursery-maids, burdened with rosy21 English babies, or guiding the footsteps of little travellers from the far Western world. Here, in the sunny afternoons, roll and rumble22 all kinds of equipages, from the cardinal’s old-fashioned and gorgeous purple carriage to the gay barouche of modern date. Here horsemen gallop23 on thoroughbred steeds. Here, in short, all the transitory population of Rome, the world’s great watering-place, rides, drives, or promenades24! Here are beautiful sunsets; and here, whichever way you turn your eyes, are scenes as well worth gazing at, both in themselves and for their historic interest, as any that the sun ever rose and set upon. Here, too, on certain afternoons of the week, a French military band flings out rich music over the poor old city, floating her with strains as loud as those of her own echoless triumphs.
Hilda and the sculptor (by the contrivance of the latter, who loved best to be alone with his young countrywoman) had wandered beyond the throng25 of promenaders, whom they left in a dense26 cluster around the music. They strayed, indeed, to the farthest point of the Pincian Hill, and leaned over the parapet, looking down upon the Muro Torto, a massive fragment of the oldest Roman wall, which juts27 over, as if ready to tumble down by its own weight, yet seems still the most indestructible piece of work that men’s hands ever piled together. In the blue distance rose Soracte, and other heights, which have gleamed afar, to our imaginations, but look scarcely real to our bodily eyes, because, being dreamed about so much, they have taken the aerial tints28 which belong only to a dream. These, nevertheless, are the solid framework of hills that shut in Rome, and its wide surrounding Campagna,—no land of dreams, but the broadest page of history, crowded so full with memorable events that one obliterates29 another; as if Time had crossed and recrossed his own records till they grew illegible30.
But, not to meddle31 with history,—with which our narrative32 is no otherwise concerned, than that the very dust of Rome is historic, and inevitably33 settles on our page and mingles34 with our ink,—we will return to our two friends, who were still leaning over the wall. Beneath them lay the broad sweep of the Borghese grounds, covered with trees, amid which appeared the white gleam of pillars and statues, and the flash of an upspringing fountain, all to be overshadowed at a later period of the year by the thicker growth of foliage35.
The advance of vegetation, in this softer climate, is less abrupt36 than the inhabitant of the cold North is accustomed to observe. Beginning earlier,—even in February,—Spring is not compelled to burst into Summer with such headlong haste; there is time to dwell upon each opening beauty, and to enjoy the budding leaf, the tender green, the sweet youth and freshness of the year; it gives us its maiden37 charm, before, settling into the married Summer, which, again, does not so soon sober itself into matronly Autumn. In our own country, the virgin38 Spring hastens to its bridal too abruptly39. But here, after a month or two of kindly40 growth, the leaves of the young trees, which cover that portion of the Borghese grounds nearest the city wall, were still in their tender half-development.
In the remoter depths, among the old groves41 of ilex-trees, Hilda and Kenyon heard the faint sound of music, laughter, and mingling42 voices. It was probably the uproar—spreading even so far as the walls of Rome, and growing faded and melancholy43 in its passage—of that wild sylvan44 merriment, which we have already attempted to describe. By and by it ceased—although the two listeners still tried to distinguish it between the bursts of nearer music from the military band. But there was no renewal45 of that distant mirth. Soon afterwards they saw a solitary46 figure advancing along one of the paths that lead from the obscurer part of the ground towards the gateway47.
“Look! is it not Donatello?” said Hilda.
“He it is, beyond a doubt,” replied the sculptor. “But how gravely he walks, and with what long looks behind him! He seems either very weary, or very sad. I should not hesitate to call it sadness, if Donatello were a creature capable of the sin and folly48 of low spirits. In all these hundred paces, while we have been watching him, he has not made one of those little caprioles in the air which are characteristic of his natural gait. I begin to doubt whether he is a veritable Faun.”
“Then,” said Hilda, with perfect simplicity49, “you have thought him—and do think him—one of that strange, wild, happy race of creatures, that used to laugh and sport in the woods, in the old, old times? So do I, indeed! But I never quite believed, till now, that fauns existed anywhere but in poetry.”
The sculptor at first merely smiled. Then, as the idea took further possession of his mind, he laughed outright50, and wished from the bottom of his heart (being in love with Hilda, though he had never told her so) that he could have rewarded or punished her for its pretty absurdity51 with a kiss.
“O Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagination you hide under that little straw hat!” cried he, at length. “A Faun! a Faun! Great Pan is not dead, then, after all! The whole tribe of mythical52 creatures yet live in the moonlit seclusion53 of a young girl’s fancy, and find it a lovelier abode54 and play-place, I doubt not, than their Arcadian haunts of yore. What bliss55, if a man of marble, like myself, could stray thither56, too!”
“Why do you laugh so?” asked Hilda, reddening; for she was a little disturbed at Kenyon’s ridicule57, however kindly expressed. “What can I have said, that you think so very foolish?”
“Well, not foolish, then,” rejoined the sculptor, “but wiser, it may be, than I can fathom58. Really, however, the idea does strike one as delightfully59 fresh, when we consider Donatello’s position and external environment. Why, my dear Hilda, he is a Tuscan born, of an old noble race in that part of Italy; and he has a moss-grown tower among the Apennines, where he and his forefathers60 have dwelt, under their own vines and fig-trees, from an unknown antiquity61. His boyish passion for Miriam has introduced him familiarly to our little circle; and our republican and artistic62 simplicity of intercourse63 has included this young Italian, on the same terms as one of ourselves. But, if we paid due respect to rank and title, we should bend reverentially to Donatello, and salute64 him as his Excellency the Count di Monte Beni.”
“That is a droll65 idea, much droller than his being a Faun!” said Hilda, laughing in her turn. “This does not quite satisfy me, however, especially as you yourself recognized and acknowledged his wonderful resemblance to the statue.”
“Except as regards the pointed66 ears,” said Kenyon; adding, aside, “and one other little peculiarity67, generally observable in the statues of fauns.”
“As for his Excellency the Count di Monte Beni’s ears,” replied Hilda, smiling again at the dignity with which this title invested their playful friend, “you know we could never see their shape, on account of his clustering curls. Nay68, I remember, he once started back, as shyly as a wild deer, when Miriam made a pretence69 of examining them. How do you explain that?”
“O, I certainly shall not contend against such a weight of evidence, the fact of his faunship being otherwise so probable,” answered the sculptor, still hardly retaining his gravity. “Faun or not, Donatello or the Count di Monte Beni—is a singularly wild creature, and, as I have remarked on other occasions, though very gentle, does not love to be touched. Speaking in no harsh sense, there is a great deal of animal nature in him, as if he had been born in the woods, and had run wild all his childhood, and were as yet but imperfectly domesticated72. Life, even in our day, is very simple and unsophisticated in some of the shaggy nooks of the Apennines.”
“It annoys me very much,” said Hilda, “this inclination73, which most people have, to explain away the wonder and the mystery out of everything. Why could not you allow me—and yourself, too—the satisfaction of thinking him a Faun?”
“Pray keep your belief, dear Hilda, if it makes you any happier,” said the sculptor; “and I shall do my best to become a convert. Donatello has asked me to spend the summer with him, in his ancestral tower, where I purpose investigating the pedigree of these sylvan counts, his forefathers; and if their shadows beckon74 me into dreamland, I shall willingly follow. By the bye, speaking of Donatello, there is a point on which I should like to be enlightened.”
“Can I help you, then?” said Hilda, in answer to his look.
“Is there the slightest chance of his winning Miriam’s affections?” suggested Kenyon.
“Miriam! she, so accomplished75 and gifted!” exclaimed Hilda; “and he, a rude, uncultivated boy! No, no, no!”
“It would seem impossible,” said the sculptor. “But, on the other hand, a gifted woman flings away her affections so unaccountably, sometimes! Miriam of late has been very morbid76 and miserable77, as we both know. Young as she is, the morning light seems already to have faded out of her life; and now comes Donatello, with natural sunshine enough for himself and her, and offers her the opportunity of making her heart and life all new and cheery again. People of high intellectual endowments do not require similar ones in those they love. They are just the persons to appreciate the wholesome78 gush12 of natural feeling, the honest affection, the simple joy, the fulness of contentment with what he loves, which Miriam sees in Donatello. True; she may call him a simpleton. It is a necessity of the case; for a man loses the capacity for this kind of affection, in proportion as he cultivates and refines himself.”
“Dear me!” said Hilda, drawing imperceptibly away from her companion. “Is this the penalty of refinement79? Pardon me; I do not believe it. It is because you are a sculptor, that you think nothing can be finely wrought80 except it be cold and hard, like the marble in which your ideas take shape. I am a painter, and know that the most delicate beauty may be softened81 and warmed throughout.”
“I said a foolish thing, indeed,” answered the sculptor. “It surprises me, for I might have drawn82 a wiser knowledge out of my own experience. It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.”
Thus talking, they loitered slowly along beside the parapet which borders the level summit of the Pincian with its irregular sweep. At intervals83 they looked through the lattice-work of their thoughts at the varied84 prospects85 that lay before and beneath them.
From the terrace where they now stood there is an abrupt descent towards the Piazza86 del Popolo; and looking down into its broad space they beheld87 the tall palatial88 edifices89, the church domes70, and the ornamented91 gateway, which grew and were consolidated92 out of the thought of Michael Angelo. They saw, too, the red granite93 obelisk, oldest of things, even in Rome, which rises in the centre of the piazza, with a fourfold fountain at its base. All Roman works and ruins (whether of the empire, the far-off republic, or the still more distant kings) assume a transient, visionary, and impalpable character when we think that this indestructible monument supplied one of the recollections which Moses and the Israelites bore from Egypt into the desert. Perchance, on beholding94 the cloudy pillar and the fiery95 column, they whispered awestricken to one another, “In its shape it is like that old obelisk which we and our fathers have so often seen on the borders of the Nile.” And now that very obelisk, with hardly a trace of decay upon it, is the first thing that the modern traveller sees after entering the Flaminian Gate!
Lifting their eyes, Hilda and her companion gazed westward96, and saw beyond the invisible Tiber the Castle of St. Angelo; that immense tomb of a pagan emperor, with the archangel at its summit.
Still farther off appeared a mighty97 pile of buildings, surmounted98 by the vast dome71, which all of us have shaped and swelled99 outward, like a huge bubble, to the utmost Scope of our imaginations, long before we see it floating over the worship of the city. It may be most worthily100 seen from precisely101 the point where our two friends were now standing102. At any nearer view the grandeur103 of St. Peter’s hides itself behind the immensity of its separate parts,—so that we see only the front, only the sides, only the pillared length and loftiness of the portico104, and not the mighty whole. But at this distance the entire outline of the world’s cathedral, as well as that of the palace of the world’s chief priest, is taken in at once. In such remoteness, moreover, the imagination is not debarred from lending its assistance, even while we have the reality before our eyes, and helping105 the weakness of human sense to do justice to so grand an object. It requires both faith and fancy to enable us to feel, what is nevertheless so true, that yonder, in front of the purple outline of hills, is the grandest edifice90 ever built by man, painted against God’s loveliest sky.
After contemplating106 a little while a scene which their long residence in Rome had made familiar to them, Kenyon and Hilda again let their glances fall into the piazza at their feet. They there beheld Miriam, who had just entered the Porta del Popolo, and was standing by the obelisk and fountain. With a gesture that impressed Kenyon as at once suppliant107 and imperious, she seemed to intimate to a figure which had attended her thus far, that it was now her desire to be left alone. The pertinacious108 model, however, remained immovable.
And the sculptor here noted a circumstance, which, according to the interpretation109 he might put upon it, was either too trivial to be mentioned, or else so mysteriously significant that he found it difficult to believe his eyes. Miriam knelt down on the steps of the fountain; so far there could be no question of the fact. To other observers, if any there were, she probably appeared to take this attitude merely for the convenience of dipping her fingers into the gush of water from the mouth of one of the stone lions. But as she clasped her hands together after thus bathing them, and glanced upward at the model, an idea took strong possession of Kenyon’s mind that Miriam was kneeling to this dark follower110 there in the world’s face!
“Do you see it?” he said to Hilda.
“See what?” asked she, surprised at the emotion of his tone. “I see Miriam, who has just bathed her hands in that delightfully cool water. I often dip my fingers into a Roman fountain, and think of the brook111 that used to be one of my playmates in my New England village.”
“I fancied I saw something else,” said Kenyon; “but it was doubtless a mistake.”
But, allowing that he had caught a true glimpse into the hidden significance of Miriam’s gesture, what a terrible thraldom112 did it suggest! Free as she seemed to be,—beggar as he looked,—the nameless vagrant113 must then be dragging the beautiful Miriam through the streets of Rome, fettered114 and shackled115 more cruelly than any captive queen of yore following in an emperor’s triumph. And was it conceivable that she would have been thus enthralled116 unless some great error—how great Kenyon dared not think—or some fatal weakness had given this dark adversary117 a vantage ground?
“Hilda,” said he abruptly, “who and what is Miriam? Pardon me; but are you sure of her?”
“Sure of her!” repeated Hilda, with an angry blush, for her friend’s sake. “I am sure that she is kind, good, and generous; a true and faithful friend, whom I love dearly, and who loves me as well! What more than this need I be sure of?”
“And your delicate instincts say all this in her favor?—nothing against her?” continued the sculptor, without heeding118 the irritation119 of Hilda’s tone. “These are my own impressions, too. But she is such a mystery! We do not even know whether she is a countrywoman of ours, or an Englishwoman, or a German. There is Anglo-Saxon blood in her veins120, one would say, and a right English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a place in society without giving some clew to her past life.”
“I love her dearly,” said Hilda, still with displeasure in her tone, “and trust her most entirely121.”
“My heart trusts her at least, whatever my head may do,” replied Kenyon; “and Rome is not like one of our New England villages, where we need the permission of each individual neighbor for every act that we do, every word that we utter, and every friend that we make or keep. In these particulars the papal despotism allows us freer breath than our native air; and if we like to take generous views of our associates, we can do so, to a reasonable extent, without ruining ourselves.”
“The music has ceased,” said Hilda; “I am going now.”
There are three streets that, beginning close beside each other, diverge122 from the Piazza del Popolo towards the heart of Rome: on the left, the Via del Babuino; on the right, the Via della Ripetta; and between these two that world-famous avenue, the Corso. It appeared that Miriam and her strange companion were passing up the first mentioned of these three, and were soon hidden from Hilda and the sculptor.
The two latter left the Pincian by the broad and stately walk that skirts along its brow. Beneath them, from the base of the abrupt descent, the city spread wide away in a close contiguity123 of red-earthen roofs, above which rose eminent124 the domes of a hundred churches, beside here and there a tower, and the upper windows of some taller or higher situated125 palace, looking down on a multitude of palatial abodes126. At a distance, ascending127 out of the central mass of edifices, they could see the top of the Antonine column, and near it the circular roof of the Pantheon looking heavenward with its ever-open eye.
Except these two objects, almost everything that they beheld was mediaeval, though built, indeed, of the massive old stones and indestructible bricks of imperial Rome; for the ruins of the Coliseum, the Golden House, and innumerable temples of Roman gods, and mansions129 of Caesars and senators, had supplied the material for all those gigantic hovels, and their walls were cemented with mortar130 of inestimable cost, being made of precious antique statues, burnt long ago for this petty purpose.
Rome, as it now exists, has grown up under the Popes, and seems like nothing but a heap of broken rubbish, thrown into the great chasm131 between our own days and the Empire, merely to fill it up; and, for the better part of two thousand years, its annals of obscure policies, and wars, and continually recurring132 misfortunes, seem also but broken rubbish, as compared with its classic history.
If we consider the present city as at all connected with the famous one of old, it is only because we find it built over its grave. A depth of thirty feet of soil has covered up the Rome of ancient days, so that it lies like the dead corpse133 of a giant, decaying for centuries, with no survivor134 mighty enough even to bury it, until the dust of all those years has gathered slowly over its recumbent form and made a casual sepulchre.
We know not how to characterize, in any accordant and compatible terms, the Rome that lies before us; its sunless alleys136, and streets of palaces; its churches, lined with the gorgeous marbles that were originally polished for the adornment137 of pagan temples; its thousands of evil smells, mixed up with fragrance138 of rich incense139, diffused140 from as many censers; its little life, deriving141 feeble nutriment from what has long been dead. Everywhere, some fragment of ruin suggesting the magnificence of a former epoch142; everywhere, moreover, a Cross,—and nastiness at the foot of it. As the sum of all, there are recollections that kindle143 the soul, and a gloom and languor144 that depress it beyond any depth of melancholic145 sentiment that can be elsewhere known.
Yet how is it possible to say an unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! The spot for which man’s great life and deeds have done so much, and for which decay has done whatever glory and dominion146 could not do! At this moment, the evening sunshine is flinging its golden mantle147 over it, making all that we thought mean magnificent; the bells of all the churches suddenly ring out, as if it were a peal148 of triumph because Rome is still imperial.
“I sometimes fancy,” said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, “that Rome—mere Rome—will crowd everything else out of my heart.”
“Heaven forbid!” ejaculated the sculptor. They had now reached the grand stairs that ascend128 from the Piazza di Spagna to the hither brow of the Pincian Hill. Old Beppo, the millionnaire of his ragged149 fraternity, it is a wonder that no artist paints him as the cripple whom St. Peter heals at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple,—was just mounting his donkey to depart, laden150 with the rich spoil of the day’s beggary.
Up the stairs, drawing his tattered151 cloak about his face, came the model, at whom Beppo looked askance, jealous of an encroacher on his rightful domain152. The figure passed away, however, up the Via Sistina. In the piazza below, near the foot of the magnificent steps, stood Miriam, with her eyes bent135 on the ground, as if she were counting those little, square, uncomfortable paving-stones, that make it a penitential pilgrimage to walk in Rome. She kept this attitude for several minutes, and when, at last, the importunities of a beggar disturbed her from it, she seemed bewildered and pressed her hand upon her brow.
“She has been in some sad dream or other, poor thing!” said Kenyon sympathizingly; “and even now she is imprisoned153 there in a kind of cage, the iron bars of which are made of her own thoughts.”
“I fear she is not well,” said Hilda. “I am going down the stairs, and will join Miriam.”
“Farewell, then,” said the sculptor. “Dear Hilda, this is a perplexed154 and troubled world! It soothes155 me inexpressibly to think of you in your tower, with white doves and white thoughts for your companions, so high above us all, and With the Virgin for your household friend. You know not how far it throws its light, that lamp which you keep burning at her shrine156! I passed beneath the tower last night, and the ray cheered me, because you lighted it.”
“It has for me a religious significance,” replied Hilda quietly, “and yet I am no Catholic.”
They parted, and Kenyon made haste along the Via Sistina, in the hope of overtaking the model, whose haunts and character he was anxious to investigate, for Miriam’s sake. He fancied that he saw him a long way in advance, but before he reached the Fountain of the Triton the dusky figure had vanished.
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