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accompanied by a very fine organ, well
played on by one of the priests; after
that I went to the Franciscans' church,
where one of the Friars likewise was or-
ganist, but he played in a very superior
manner, both as to taste and harmony:
though I visited these churches for the
sake of music, it was impossible to keep
my eyes off the pictures and sculpture.
But it was here that I began to find that
these two objects of sight were not so re-
mote from my chief purpose of writing
a history of the pleasures of the ear, as I
at first imagined; for I frequently, in
the old masters, met with representations
of musical instruments, either of their
own times, or at least such as they
imagined to be in use at that time when
the action of the piece happened; thus
I observed in a famous picture of the
Marriage of Cana by P. Veronese, in the
Sacristy of S. Giorgio Maggiore, a con-
cert, with a variety of instruments, of all
which I have made a memorandum: and
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