Copy 1, Volume 1

Familiar letters from Italy, to a friend in England / By Peter Beckford.

  • Peter Beckford
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Familiar letters from Italy, to a friend in England / By Peter Beckford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Al] who drank of it, it was an advantage Acciano‘is- without, for I-never saw more ugly women, _. The Villa Prini is worth your seeing, were it only for ;the notice in .the. drawing-room,— * Che non sia lecrto a Chichessia piscear nei le Scale.?? <7 To Leghorn, you may go. hy, lash or water. You may go post.or hire a.calesse, many of which are constantly in waiting at the bridge, and, for ten pauls will carry you thither, and for.-eighteen both..carry and bring, you back, A. procaccia sets ~out every day) at. twelve o’clock, and a boat every day at eleven. When an express has .been, necessary, I have sent a man on feot, who has gone thither and back in about, seven hours for; six pauls... The vicinity of Leghorn to: Pisa is attended with many ad+ vantages to the strangers who reside there.—It is the utter ruin of the town! Mantua. had not more reason to lament the syed off Cremona; ’ shan Pisa of Leghorn.* To Lucca you may go post, or hey setgaNinon ‘itis also a pleasant ride on horseback. These are all the convenient excursions of a day; but * Mantua ve misera nimium vicina Cremone. VIRGIL. if