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°6 ] there afford the moji pleafmg images he has feen of peace a?id plenty ; that there is not an acre of barren ground through all the tradl of Lombardy which he has paffed: and that the earth there produces three crops at once, namely wine, Jilk, and corn; the mul¬ berry-treesfupporting the vines, and the com growing in the intervals betwixt the trees. As to manufactures, no body but Mr. Sharp will ever dream that the Italians deteft them. Many branches of them, nay moft branches are in a flourishing Hate, and thofe manufactures are purchafed from, them by all the commercial world. But is it pofiible that Mr. Sharp can have vifited Italy without feeing manufacturers and other people laborioufy employed? Has he not feen there a Angle weaver, dier, hatter, fword-cuttler, paper-maker, coach- maker, Aloe-maker ? And can any body be perfuaded that we have in Italy no ma- fons, fmiths, porters, fellers of wood, flone-fawyers, armourers, brafs-founders, and other fuch hearty fellows, who go through