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Excerpt from Time, 1885, Vol. 1: A Monthly Magazine of Current Topics, Literature and Art <p>I had a great craze for all manner of eighteenth-century concerns, especially musical. And, in fact, this phrase which thus returned to me, wholly detached from its surroundings, must be a sentence of a long recitative in which Horatia, sister of the Roman champions, bewails the death of her lover Curiatius; a recitative which cannot be very interesting in itself, since this phrase is the only son of it that I can possibly call to mind. Thus much is clear. Ut why on earth should these five notes have haunted me during the Wagner performance? Why of call operatic heroes and heroines that ever existed, should this Curiazio have intruded into the company of Tristram and Yseult? In order that you may appreciate to the full the unexpectedness, the incongruity, the grotesqueness of this meeting between the most tragic pair of mediaeval lovers and this particular ancient Roman of the late eighteenth century, it is necessary that I attempt to give you some idea of Signor Curiazio. The business is a little roundabout, but its oddity deserves to be satisfactorily understood. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.