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think, is more powerful than when he was in England, and his taste and ex- pression seem to have received every pos- sible degree of selection and refinement. He is a very chaste performer, and adds but few notes; those few notes, however, are so well chosen, that they produce great effects, and leave the ear thoroughly satisfied.
He has a winter-house in Florence, and has built this at Montefiascone, the place of his birth, to retire to in summer, and to receive his mother, and his bro- thers and sisters: it is charmingly situated, commanding, on one side, a fine prospect of the country, as far as Aquapendente, and a great part of the Lake of Bolsena; and, on the other, the hills of Viterbo, and the country leading to it.
He says that he has totally quitted the stage, and intends singing no more in public: this is a loss to Italy, as I find he is now allowed by the Italians the first place among all the singers of the
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