The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte’s sister, who was no saint, sat to [the artist Antonio] Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, “No. There was a fire in the room.”
— William Hazlitt
I am in here.
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte’s sister, who was no saint, sat to [the artist Antonio] Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, “No. There was a fire in the room.”
— William Hazlitt
white pebble 