(.) German workmen were principally employed in the manufactory, and to them the children used often to sing their Danish songs. Hans Christian Andersen is one of those men who, from their earliest youth, have had to keep up a warfare with circumstances men who seemed destined by Fate to end their lives unnoticed in a village, and yet through an instinctive sense of their destined pre-eminence in the beautiful regions of art and literature, and sustained by an irrepressible will, have made themselves a part of the great world. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for his fairy tales but in 1834 he achieved international fame by writing The Improvisatore, a semi autobiographical novel which tells the story of a Roman boy from a poor background who achieves success through his talent for improvisation, helped by the members of the Borghese family. ( John Evelyn in 1687 and an etching he made for a friend)
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