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have been published. At present the press is very active and fertile, and the number of boosellers in the fine street called Merceria is very considerable. I found in no one place so many old au- thors on the subject of music as here ; and as to the new, I met with many that I was unable to find elsewhere, particu- larly the first volume of Padre Martini's History of Music. The principal book- sellers in Venice are Pasquali, Remondini, Bettinelli, Occhi, and Antonio di Castro.
The art of engraving music there seems to be utterly lost, as I was not able to find a single work printed in the manner we print music in England. In the first place there is no such thing as a music shop throughout Italy, that I was able to discover. Indeed Signor di Castro, a spi- rited bookseller, one of the four above- mentioned, has published a proposal for printing music with types, in the man- ner attempted by Mr. Fought, but has met with small encouragement, having
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