The words, read rightly, indicate many thingshis adoration of Italy and Milan, his eccentricity, his scorn of the conventions of society and the limits of nationality, his adventurous life, his devotion to literature, and, lastly, the fact that, through all the varieties of his experiencein the earliest years of his childhood, in his agitated manhood, in his calm old agethere had never been a moment when he was not in love.