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both seemed to be exhausted; and, in
fact, the trumpeter, wholly spent gave
it up, thinking, however, his antagonist
as much tired as himself, and that it
would be a drawn battle; when Fari-
nelli, with a smile on his countenance,
shewing he had only been sporting with
him all this time, broke out all at once
in the same breath, with fresh vigour, and
not only swelled and shook the note, but
ran the most rapid and difficult divisions,
and was at last silenced only by the ac-
clamations of the audience. From this
period may be dated that superiority
which he ever maintained over all his
cotemporaries [sic].
In the early part of his life he was dis-
tinguished throughout Italy, by the name
of il Ragazzo, the boy.
From Rome he went to Bologna,
where he had the advantage of hearing
Bernacchi, a scholar of the famous
Pistocco, of that city, who was then the
first singer in Italy, for taste and know-
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