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

NAPLES. *53
There are several very delightful Pro-
spedts about Naples^ especially from some
of the Religious Housesj for one sel-
dom finds in Italy a Spot of Ground
more agreeable than ordinary, that is
not cover’d with a Convent. The Cu-
pola’s of this City, tho’ there are many
of them, don’t appear to the belt Ad-
vantage when one surveys them at a di- ■
stance, as being generally too high and
narrow. The Marquis of Medina Cido-*
nia^ in his Vice-Royalty, made the Shell
of a House, which he had not time to
finish, that commands a View of the
whole Bay, and would have been a very,
noble Building had he brought *it to
Perfeftion.
It hands so on the side of a Mountain
that it would have had a Garden to e-
very Story, by the help of a Bridge
which was to have been laid over each
Garden.
The Bay of Naples is the tnost delight-
ful one that I ever saw. It lyes in al-
most a round Figure of about Thirty
Miles in the Diameter. Three Parts of
it are ihelter’d with a noble Circuit of
Woods and Mountains. The high Pro-
montory of Surrentum divides it from
the Bay of Salernum. Between the ut-
most Point of this Promontory, and- the
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