Volume 1

An account of the manners and customs of Italy; with observations on the mistakes of some travellers. With regard to that country / By Joseph Baretti.

  • Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
Date:
1768
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the manners and customs of Italy; with observations on the mistakes of some travellers. With regard to that country / By Joseph Baretti. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2§2 ] aiTured me, that he fhall never fufiiciently praife my countrymen upon this head. It is then a notorious fa£t that the academy of St. Luke has many times ad¬ judged the firft premiums to foreigners, Englifh, Dutch, French, and Spaniards, without the leaft fhadow of national par¬ tiality. A fucceffion of Grangers, and many of them heretics (as our hot-headed divines call them) have Ihifted, and do ftill fhift in Italy, when furniftied with a profeffion and a little dofe of prudence; and inftead of being envied, eroded, and molefted by national partiality, they have been, and are ftill, a (lifted and carefted, efteemed and employed. Nor does this Italian cofmopolitifm and philanthropy extend (ingly to the polite artifts who come to ftudy or to live amongft us. The culT tivators of other profeffions meet in Italy with the fame treatment. To name only the profeftbrs of mulic, an art in which we ftill excel all other nations by the una? ni'mous t f ' j- O *r /