“Vain, flighty, fanciful, they want the judgment and penetration of their Florentine neighbors; who, nationally severe, call a nail without a head

chiodo Sanese

. The accomplished Signora Rinieri told me, that her father, while Governor of Siena, was once stopped in his carriage by a crowd at Florence, where the mob, recognizing him, called out: ‘

Lasciate passare il Governatore de’ matti.

’ A native of Siena is presently known at Florence; for his very walk, being formed to a hilly town, detects him on the plain.”