Lacock
Feb. 13. 1851
My Dear Horatia
The papers today have long accounts of the extraordinary occurrence at Forlimpopoli, 1 so well described in Your letter of the 3d. Such a Melodrama was never before acted on any stage! It is only in Italy that such things are possible, and I think that if Mrs Radcliffe 2 had introduced this adventure into her romance of “the Italian”, it would have been scouted as too improbable.
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