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her wonderful talent of speaking verses extempore upon any given subject, and being able to pay a ripieno part, on the violin, in concert, she sings with a great deal of expression, and has a considerable share of execution.
I was several times at the house of Sig- nor Campioni, whose trios have been so well received in England. He is mar- ried to a lady who paints very well, and who is likewise a neat performer, on the harpsichord. He has the greatest collec- tion of old music, particularly Madrigals, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Padre Martini's excepted, that I ever saw: he has likewise himself composed a great deal for the church, since his establish- ment at Florence. He shewed me the score of a Te Deum, which he set for the birth of the grand duke's eldest daugh- ter, full of curious canons, and ingeni- ous contrivances: it was performed by a band of two hundred voices and in- struments.
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