"My dearest Teresa,
I have read this book in your garden - my love, you were absent, or else I could not have read it. It is a favorite book of yours, and the writer was a friend of mine.
You will not understand these English words, and others will not understand them, - which is the reason I have not scrawled them in Italian.
But you will recognize the handwriting of him who passionately loved you, and you will divine that, over a book which was yours, he could only think of love.
In that word, beautiful in all languages, but most so in yours - Amor mio - is comprised my existence here and hereafter".
Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) | Countess Teresa Guiccioli (Italian noblewoman and writer, 1800-1873)