The chaplet now is in its proper place.—Page 106.
Oehlenschläger mentions in his Autobiography, that the incident
of crowning Antonio was suggested to him by his being caught
by a branch in the manner described by Celestina in the text,
in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, while meditating how to
compensate Correggio for the wound caused to his feelings by the
unworthy project of Ottavio. ‘Never shall I forget,’ he says,
‘how, when I was reading the play to my Danish friends in Rome,
and Christel Riepenhausen at the passage where Celestina crowns
Correggio said, in a cool and indifferent way—‘Hm, that is
pretty!’ Thorwaldsen started up, looked at him with flashing
eyes, and exclaimed, ‘No, that is grand!’—
Selbst-Biographie,
Vol. ii., p. 151. Breslau. 1839.