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The singular being with whom chance had thus brought him acquainted wasto have a lasting1 influence on the formation of Odo's character.
Vittorio Alfieri, then just concluding, at the age of sixteen, hisdesultory years of academic schooling2, was probably the mostextraordinary youth in Charles Emmanuel's dominion3. Of the futurestudent, of the tragic4 poet who was to prepare the liberation of Italyby raising the political ideals of his generation, this moody5 boy withhis craze for dress and horses, his pride of birth and contempt for hisown class, his liberal theories and insolently6 aristocratic practice,must have given small promise to the most discerning observer. It seemsindeed probable that none thought him worth observing and that he passedamong his townsmen merely as one of the most idle and extravagant7 youngnoblemen in a society where idleness and extravagance were held to bethe natural attributes of the great. But in the growth of character thelight on the road to Damascus is apt to be preceded by faint premonitorygleams; and even in his frivolous8 days at the Academy Alfieri carried aVirgil in his pocket and wept and trembled over Ariosto's verse.
It was the instant response of Odo's imagination that drew the twotogether. Odo, as one of the foreign pupils, was quartered in the samewing of the Academy with the students of Alfieri's class, and enjoyed analmost equal freedom. Thus, despite the difference of age, the ladsfound themselves allied9 by taste and circumstances. Among the youth oftheir class they were perhaps the only two who already felt, howeverobscurely, the stirring of unborn ideals, the pressure of that tide ofrenovation that was to sweep them, on widely-sundered currents, to thesame uncharted deep. Alfieri, at any rate, represented to the youngerlad the seer who held in his hands the keys of knowledge and beauty. Odocould never forget the youth who first leant him Annibale Caro's Aeneidand Metastasio's opera libretti, Voltaire's Zaire and the comedies ofGoldoni; while Alfieri perhaps found in his companion's sympathy withhis own half-dormant tastes the first

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