Mendelssohn: An entirely Italian Symphony: "...a people intellectually insignificant and somewhat lost. They have a religion in which they do not believe, they have a pope and rulers and they laugh at them. They have a splendid past that they take no account of. There is therefore no wonder, then, if they fail to enjoy the things of art, if everything that is beautiful is indifferent to them."
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, letter to the family
Rome, December 7, 1830
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