Maria Pasolini

Contessa Maria for some thirty years has played a great role in the social and intellectual history of Italy She is the daughter of one of the leading business families of Milan sister to the Marchese Ponti who was for long Sindaco of that great city and intimately concerned in its stormy industrial history She married Count Pasolini the head of an old aristocratic family with large estates in the Romagna whose father was President of the first Senate of United Italy It was in the neighborhood of the Pasolini estates that Garibaldi took refuge after 1848 and one may pass through them to reach the lonely hut in which Anita Garibaldi died

Contessa Maria for instance was in 1889 still near the beginnings of what was to prove for twenty five years the most interesting salon in Rome Everybody met there Grandees of all nations ambassadors ecclesiastics men of literature science archeology art politicians and diplomats Contessa Pasolini was equal to them all and her talk rapid fearless picturesque full of knowledge yet without a hint of pedantry gave a note of unity to a scene that could hardly have been more varied or in less skilful hands more full of jarring possibilities But later on when

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