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and French stage, where this is not prac-
tised, probability suffers when the trans-
actions of the piece are supposed to hap-
pen in the night.
Here was a burletta in run, under the
direction of Signor Leopoldo Maria
Scherli, Maestro di Capella; the singers
were Giovanni Simoni, Giuseppe Fran-
ceschini, Niccola Menichelli, Angiola
Dotti, Geltrude Dotti, Teresa Menichel-
li, Teresa Monti, but, for my misfortune,
they did not perform while I was at Brescia.
At the sign of the Gambero or Lobster,
where I lodged, and in the next room to
mine, there was a company of opera
singers, who seemed all very jolly; they
were just come from Russia, where they
had been fourteen or fifteen years. The
principal singer among them, I found,
upon enquiry, to be the Castrato Luini
Bonetto. He is said to be still very rich,
though he lost in one night, at play, ten
thousand pounds of the money which he
had gained con la sua virtù. He is a na-
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