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which they executed very well. In this manner, on Sundays and holidays, the trades-people and artizans form them- selves into distinct companies, and sing through the streets, in their way to church. Those of the parish of S. Bene- detto, we are informed by Crescimbeni, were famous all over Italy; and at the great Jubilee, in the beginning of this century, marched through the streets of Rome, singing in such a manner as pleased and astonished every body.
September 3. I went to the little thea- tre di via Santa Maria, to hear the comic opera of La Pescatrice, composed by Sig- nor Piccini. There are but four charac- ters in this drama, two of which were represented by Signora Giovanna Bag- lioni, and her sister Costanza, whom I had heard at Milan; the other two were Signor Paolo Bonaveri, a good tenor, and Signor Constantino Ghigi. Costanza Bag- lioni appeared here to much greater ad-
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