Majolica was produced for the first time by Messrs. Minton, in 1850, and they have been for many years the only producers of this article. The name of majolica is now applied indiscriminately to all fancy articles of coloured pottery. When, however, it is decorated by means of coloured glazes, if these are transparent, it ought to be called Palissy ware […]

She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.

This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.

the narrator is in a dreamlike state midway between sleep and wakefulness, […] dorveille, a state that accentuates the inability to tell whether the events being recounted really happened or not.