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This morning I visited Signor Piccini, and had the pleasure of a long conversa- tion with him. He seems to live in a reputable way, has a good house, and many servants and attendants about him. He is not more than four or five and forty; looks well, has a very animated countenance, and is a polite and agreeable little man, though rather grave in his manner for a Neapolitan possessed of so much fire and genius. His family is rather numerous; one of his sons is a student in the university of Padua.
After reading a letter which Mr. Giar- dini was so obliging as to give me to him, he told me that he should be extremely glad if he could be of any use either to me or my work. My first enquiries were concerning the Neapolitan Conser- vatorios; for he having been brought up in one of them himself, his information was likely to be authentic and satisfac- tory. In my first visit I confined my
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