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defect in so exquisite a performance, it
arises from the equal perfection of the
two parts; which distracts the attention,
and renders it impossible to listen to both,
when both have dissimilar melodies
equally pleasing.
They were born at Parma, and have
been upwards of forty years in the service
of his Sardinian majesty, without ever
quitting Italy, except in one short excur-
sion to Paris; or even Turin, but for
that journey, and one to visit the place
of their nativity. They are sober, regular
persons, and are in easy circumstances;
have a town and country house, in the
former are many good pictures, particu-
larly a very fine one of Lodovico Car-
racci, of whose works but few are to be
found, except at Bologna.
After this visit I heard a full piece per-
formed at the king's chapel, and then
went to see the great opera-house, which
is reckoned one of the finest in Europe.
It is very large and elegant; the machi-
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