De Stefani's alacrity was also doted on by the liberal press: "he lives, sleeps, eats in the ministry, and his day is 8 to 8 with half an hour for lunch, for seven days in the week. I suspect that this superactivity is due to his not unnatural mistrust for the offi cials whom he has inherited."

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1364