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Every lover of learning laments the slow manner in which they proceed in opening these volumes. All that have been found hitherto were in Herculaneum. Those of Pompeii are supposed to have been wholly destroyed by fire.
Saturday 3. At night I went to a little neat new play-house, just opened; there was a comedy in prose, a Turkish story, ill told, and not well acted.
Sunday 4. I went this morning to San Gennaro, to hear the organ and to see the chapel, and the pictures in it, by Domenichini; after which I was conduct- ed to the house of Don Carlo Cotumacci, master to the Conservatorio of St. Onofrio, whom I heard play on the harpsichord; and who gave me a great number of anec- dotes concerning the music of old times. He was scholar to the Cavalier Alessandro Scarlatti, in the year 1719; and shewed
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