Thursday, November 16:
The Sistine Chapel!!!
In the afternoon Villa Ludovisi. Spent the evening at home. How happy we might be here if we were not besieged by gloomy thoughts! R. has received no answer of any kind from Herr v. Radowitz, everyone is silent except Feustel, who reminds us of the deficit, as if we had forgotten it!
Speaking of journalists, R. says, “These people feel they are right, that we have and can have no art of our own, that I am a fool.” In this mood he becomes bitter looking at art treasures, and I, too, regard them with the deepest melancholy.