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which was taken of him, by a person of distinction there, he was sent away, and has been many years established in this city: he is now in years; I had a long conversation with him, and found him very intelligent and obliging.
He says, that the music of Palestrina is used here on all days, except festivals; and upon my requesting him to favour me with a copy of the most celebrated com- position performed in his church, he told me that it was the Miserere of Allegri, which is sung here, as in the Pope's chapel, only on good Fridays, and that it should be transcribed for me imme- diately: but as I had already obtained a copy of that famous composition from Padre Martini, who had one made by the express order of the late Pope, I declined the acceptance of his obliging offer.
In the evening I went again to the opera of Le Donne Vendicate, which I mention only because it gives me an op- portunity of remarking the extraordinary
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