human
Sorrento! So this is the town old Genaro talks about. Crowing over me! Seems to think he knows such a lot. Bah! Tasso! Tasso--bah, I say!
gpt
Is that where I am to sing, Guiseppe?
human
I'm not talking to you. You had better learn to mind you own business. Marta, I'll not leave this town till I see where the sister of that man Tasso lived, and I'll see his statue, too.
gpt
Tasso.
human
Yes, Tasso. You don't know anything about him, and you don't need to know. If old Genaro thinks we haven't seen scenery since we've been traveling around the country, he's fooled.
gpt
Signor Genaro might ask me about Tasso, she suggested,
human
You're right for once, girl, he said, grudgingly.
gpt
Genaro might ask you, and I want you both to let him see you know about Tasso. It won't hurt either of you to learn something. Tasso was a famous poet. Well, let me see--what was it old Genaro told me? Oh, yes; I remember. He was very wild and ran away from home. The house where he was born and the rock on which it stood were swallowed by the sea, but his sister's house is here and the thing to do is to see that and to go to the Piazza and see his statue.
human
Now I remember, said Marta.
gpt
I went with the countess. She told me that he came back to his sister's house disguised as a shepherd, and that is why her home is of interest to tourists.
human
Bah! What do they care--what do I care--about a poet who has been dead over three hundred years? I'll go--I'll go. I'll give old Genaro to understand that I saw everything worth seeing. Marta, keep your eye on the upstart, or she'll be going too. Mind what I tell you.