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Charles Burney

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

London: T. Becket and Co., 1773

Bologna
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by a violin and mandoline; and, this af-
ternoon, an itinerant band played under
my window several symphonies and single
movements of execution, extremely well,
in four parts.

Saturday 25. This day I had the plea-
sure to spend with Signor Farinelli, at
his house in the country, about a mile
from Bologna, which is not yet quite
finished, though he has been building it
ever since he retired from Spain *. Il
Padre Maestro Martini was invited to
dine there with me, and I cannot resist
the desire of confessing that I was ex-
tremely happy at finding myself in the
company of two such extraordinary
men.
* The country is flat all round him, but though the
environs of this city are perhaps the most fer-
tile of any in Italy, yet the inhabitants seem possess-
ed of nothing like taste, in laying out their gardens;
however, Signor Farinelli's house commands a fine
prospect of Bologna, and of the little hills near it.
Signor