Saturday, December 9:
To Santa Maria Novella, the fine cloisters, the first particularly splendid; following that San Lorenzo, where I saw the chapel, then the Uffizi, where old Baron Liphart joins us with R. and amuses us greatly with his criticisms of the placing and labeling of the pictures.
We undertake nothing in the afternoon, since R. is feeling very unwell. In the evening, a sad conversation about our situation in Bayreuth. R. resolves to ask the King to take over the whole thing - he, R., wishes to have nothing more to do with it.