Letters From Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &c. of That Country, in the Years 1770 and 1771, to a Friend Residing in France

Letters From Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &c. of That Country, in the Years 1770 and 1771, to a Friend Residing in France PDF

Author: Anna Riggs Miller

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017746686

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Letters from Italy, Vol. 2

Letters from Italy, Vol. 2 PDF

Author: Anna Riggs Miller

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-09

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780484358392

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Excerpt from Letters From Italy, Vol. 2: Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &C. Of That Country, in the Years 1770 and 1771, to a Friend Residing in France, by an English Woman Erance l'hoq'el de Ville. In this palace the cardinalcardinal legate and gonfalonier are lodged commodiouily' With all the loflicers and domefiics of their houfeholds; here' are alfo offices. For public notaries, Es'c. Guard rooms for the Swifs halberdiers attendant Upon the legate: in fhort, there is no end of the people who inhabit this palace. To render it convenient to 1ts 1nhabitants, the great fiaircafe is fo contrived, that loaded mules may eafily afcend and defcend. It is paved With brick, fcarce an'y rifers, but what there are, are very broad, 'and flope confi derably. I am perfuaded it is more trouble fome to human creatures to mount this flair: 'cafe' than to that obfiinate proud brute a rriule. The Whole building is of brick, and by no. Means remarkable in point of ar chitecture. There are fome good pictures in this palace; the principal as follows: a'large picture painted on filk'b)r Guido; Gui -it'was intended for a church-banner at the time of the plague in 1630; its fubjeéft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.