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

Ferrara^ Ravennth Rimini.
to suppose one, involved in a common
Shipwreck, would give such of his Slaves
their Liberty, as should have the good
Luck to save themselves The Chancel
of this Church is vaulted with a Angle
Stone of Four Foot in Thickncss, and
a Hundred and Fourteen in Circumfe-
rence. There slood on the Outside of
this little Cupola a great Tomb of Por-
phyry, and the Statues of the Twelve A-
postlesj. but in the War that Louis the
Twelfth made on Italy^ the Tomb was
broken in pieces by a Cannon-Ball.
It was, perhaps, the same Blow that
made the Flaw in the Cupola, tho’the
Inhabitants say it was crack’d by Thun-
der, that destroyed a Son of one of their
Gothic Princes, who had taken Shelter
under it, as having been foretold what
kind of Death he was to die. I asked an
Abbot, that was in the Church, what
was the Name of this Gothic Prince, who,
after a little Recollection, answered me,
That he could not tell precisely, but
that he thought it was one Julius Gafar.
There is a Convent of Theatinsr where
they show a little Window in the
Church, thro’ which the Holy Ghost
is said to have entered in the Shape of
a Dove, and to have settled on one of
the Candidates for the. Bishoprick. The
Dove