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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    3°4 ] has thus rendered Old England much wifer than it was before his great dif- covery. But though I may heartily join with his r countrymen, and give Mr. Sharp my mod: cordial thanks for having imparted his ufeful difcovery to them; yet I cannot thank him for having told them, that the Italians learn mufic becanfe trade in Italy is defpic able y and laborious employments are held in detejlation. Mr. Sharp is certainly miftaken here; and I muft in my turn deny both thefe faCts. It is rather mufic, than trade or laborious employments, that is defpicable in Italy, and held in deteftation. If by labourious employments Mr. Sharp means agriculture and manufactures, (and what elfe can he mean ?) I tell him plainly that neither of them is detefted by the Italians > for, were that the cafe, our far¬ mers, traders, and manufacturers could not certainly be fo numerous as they are; nor