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ters; he is librarian to the king, and keeper of his majesty's cabinet of rari- ties at the foot of Capo di Monte. I never saw a person of a more chearfully [sic] obliging character. He cannot be less than 70 years of age, and yet he is as lively and even sportive, as a young man of 20. He and his assistant had been hunting with great diligence in the king's library, which formerly belonged to the Farnese family, and was brought hi- ther from Parma, for materials relative to music. He shewed me, among several books and MSS. which I already knew, some curious inedited tracts which are no where else to be found*.
After this, he shewed me his micro- scopes and telescopes, which are famous all over Italy; this father being said to have made great improvements in both,
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