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a voce sola, after which there were
prayers; and then a little boy, not above
six years old, mounted the pulpit, and
delivered a discourse, by way of sermon,
which he had got by heart, and which
was rendered truly ridiculous by the ve-
hicle through which it passed. The ora-
torio of Abigail, set to music by Signor
Casali, was then performed. This drama
consisted of four characters, and was di-
vided into two parts. The two first
movements of the overture pleased me
very much, the last not at all. It was,
as usual, a minuet degenerated into a jigg
of the most common cast. This rapidity
in the minuets of all modern overtures
renders them ungraceful at an opera, but
in a church they are indecent. The rest
of the music was pretty common-place,
for though it could boast of no new me-
lody or modulation, it had nothing vul-
gar in it.
Signor Cristofero sung the principal
part very well, in Guarducci's smooth
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