Thursday 21st (21st September, 1876)[1]

Strolled through the streets of Venice, went to an antiquarian bookseller. R. not well, the air does not agree with him very much. In the evening, at the theatre, “Nerone”,^[2] a new play, written with more talent than Herr Wilbrandt’s work of the same name; it is quite well acted, though there is much mannerism in the acting. — Visited the Palazzo Giustiniani. (See to-morrow.)

^{1 In the margin: “Rainy day”.
[1] “Nero”, a verse drama in five acts and a prologue, the major work of Pietro Cossa (1830–1881)—an Italian playwright and author of realistic historical character studies; “Nero” was translated into German by C. Reißner in 1876 and set to music by Pietro Mascagni.}