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207 In the sixteenth, and at the beginning of the seventeenth

century, at the time when the arts flourished, even banquets were

directed by artists, and were full of symbols and of theatrical

scenes. At a famous banquet given in Rome for Leo X. there was a

centrepiece that represented the four seasons of the year in

turn, and that evidently served as a model for Radziwill's. Table

customs altered in Europe about the middle of the eighteenth

century, but remained unchanged longest in Poland.

208 Pinety [Pinetti?] was a conjurer famous throughout Poland,

but when he visited the country I do not know.

209 [Henryk Dembinski (1791-1864) took part in the Napoleonic

wars, the insurrection of 1831, and the Hungarian insurrection of

1849.]

210 [Joseph Dwernicki (1778-1857), a member of the Legions, who

in 1804 fitted out a squadron at his own cost. In 1826 he was

made a general, and distinguished himself in the insurrection of

1831.]