[ 192 ]
![next](graphics/next.gif)
TOC
|
these admirable performers, who are of different ages, all behaved with great pro- priety, and seemed to be well educated.
It was here that the two celebrated female performers, the Archiapate, now Signora Guglielmi, and Signora Mad- dalena Lombardini Sirmen, who have received such great and just applause in England, had their musical instructions. If I could have staid a few days longer at Venice, I might have enjoyed the same kind of entertainment at the other three conservatorios, having been tempted to continued there by such an offer from a friend who had interest sufficient to pro- cure me a sight of the interior discipline of these admirable musical seminaries ; and I declined this obliging offer with the greater reluctance, as there is not in all Italy any establishment of the same kind ; but being willing to divide the time which I had allowed myself for the enquiries I had to make there as equally as possible, I resisted that temptation as well as several other offers with which I was
|