proem

After writing these words I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel, and he expressed great delight in them.

In the proem to this idyl I seem to see two shadowy figures passing up and down over a lonesome land.

Machiavelli lays much stress upon this in the Proem to his Istorie Fiorentine.

The opening—the proem I believe he calls it—is very beautiful.

Proem, printed in two of his books, is certainly the best thing he has done hitherto.