Charles Burney

The Present State of Music in France and Italy (2nd, corrected edition)

London: T. Becket and Co., 1773

Bologna

After doing this very faithfully, I was
going to retire, when he says, " Won't
" you stay for the words to be written
" to these Canons?"--I had the day
before sung with a young Franciscan,
his scholar, out of a MS. book of an
enormous size, filled with his Canons,
several very pleasing ones for two voices
only, of which I seemed to express a
desire to have one or two copied, and
this excellent father remembering it,
had set a person to work for me, who
was writing when I entered the study;
but, as he had usually two or three
amanuenses there, I did not mind him *.
At length we parted, on my side with
sorrow, and on his with a recommenda-
tion to write to him often.