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IG.782.016
1 Jun 1782:13 (8)
ON THE POWER OF MUSIC.
Palma, a celebrated musician at Naples, was one day
surprised in his house by a ruthless creditor, bent on
arresting him. The artist, without making any answer to his
invectives and threats, ran to his harpsichord, and fell a
playing an ariette; then a second, and a third. The first
sounds fixed the creditor's attention, and by the delicate
touches of that masterly hand, every rugged passion was
allayed, and such tenderness overflowed his heart, that he
not only remitted Palma the debt, but made him a present of
ten pieces of gold, and begged that a cordial intimacy might
ever subsist between them.
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