Thursday, March the 4th, 2004
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“She sank deeper and deeper into seclusion, and during the twenty-seven years she lived in Rome she left her home in the Via del Babuino only once for twenty-four hours. She grew more and more immersed in the Church and its affairs. Gregororius said she fairly ‘sputtered spirituality’. Her chief work was a twenty-four-volume study bearing the thrilling title, Interior Causes of the Exterior Weakness of the Church. This ponderous affair she finished a few days before her death.” — Rupert Hughes, The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, on Franz Liszt's lover Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein