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sanguine expectations? How far these
expectations were gratified, the Reader
will find in the course of my narrative,
which is constantly a faithful transcript
of my feelings at the time that I en-
tered them in my journal, immedi-
ately after hearing and seeing, with a
mind not conscious of any prejudice or
partiality.
I arrived here about five o'clock in the
evening, on Tuesday, October 16, and
at night went to the Teatro de' Fiorentini,
to hear the comic opera of Gelosia per
Gelosia, set to music by Signor Piccini.
This theatre is as small as Mr. Foote's
in London, but higher, as there are five
rows of boxes in it. Notwithstanding
the court was at Portici, and a great
number of families were at their Vil-
leggiatura's, or country-houses, so great
is the reputation of Signor Piccini, that
every part of the house was crowded.
Indeed this opera had nothing else but
the merit and reputation of the com-
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