And then he was a Count, and then he knew

Music, and dancing, fiddling, French and Tuscan;

The last not easy, be it known to you,

For few Italians speak the right Etruscan.

He was a critic upon operas, too,

And knew all niceties of sock and buskin;

And no Venetian audience could endure a

Song, scene, or air, when he cried "seccatura!"[209]