Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

88 Ferrara, Ravenna, Rimini.
Convent of the Place. They show’d
us in the Church Ariofto's Monument:
His Epitaph says, he was Nobilitate ge-
neris atque Animi darns, in rebus publicis
administrandis, inregendis populis, in gra-
vissimis fummis Pontificis legationibus
prudentia, confilio, eloquentia prceflantissi-
mus.
I came down a Branch of the Po, as
far as Alberto, within Ten Miles of Ra-
venna. All this Space lyes miserably un-
cultivated ’till you come near Ravenna,
where the Soil is made extreamly fruit-
ful, and shows what much of the rest
might be, were there Hands enough to
manage it to the belt Advantage. It is
now on both sides the Road very Marshy,
and generally over-grown with Rushes,
which made me fancy it was once ssoat-
ed by the Sea, that lyes within Four
Miles of it. Nor could I in the lealt
doubt it when I saw Ravenna, that is
now almost at the same distance from
the Adriatic, tho’ it was formerly the
mosst famous of all the Roman Ports.
One may guess at its ancient Situation
from Martial's
Meliafyue Rana gar riant Ravennates.
Lib. 5.
Ra-