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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IV.
About eight miles from Padua, on the banks of
the canal, stands the castle of the Obizzi, an
ancient and illustrious family of Padua. This
edifice is much in the style of the old castles of
Romance. Lofty rooms, long galleries, winding
staircases, and dark passages, fltit admirably for
the purposes of a novelist, and render it equally
proper for the abode of a great baron, for the
receptacle of a band of robbers, for the scene
of nightly murders, or for the solitary walk of
ghosts and of spectres. But the predominant
taste of the country has fitted it up in a style well
calculated to dispel these gloomy transalpine
illusions, and to cure the spectator’s mind of its
Gothic terrors. The apartments are adorned with
paintings, some of which are in fresco, on the walls
representing the glories and the achievements of
the Obizzian heroes in days of old, and others
are on canvas being’ originals or copies of great
masters. The galleries, and one in particular of
very considerable length, are filled with Roman
antiquities, altars, vases, armour, inscriptions,
pillars, &c. On the whole, the castle is very
curious, and ought to be made the object of a par-
ticular visit, as an incidental hour is not sufficient
for an examination in detail of the various curio-
sities which it contains. *
* When we visited it, the proprietor was walking up and
down the great gallery, and giving directions to his servants
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IV.
About eight miles from Padua, on the banks of
the canal, stands the castle of the Obizzi, an
ancient and illustrious family of Padua. This
edifice is much in the style of the old castles of
Romance. Lofty rooms, long galleries, winding
staircases, and dark passages, fltit admirably for
the purposes of a novelist, and render it equally
proper for the abode of a great baron, for the
receptacle of a band of robbers, for the scene
of nightly murders, or for the solitary walk of
ghosts and of spectres. But the predominant
taste of the country has fitted it up in a style well
calculated to dispel these gloomy transalpine
illusions, and to cure the spectator’s mind of its
Gothic terrors. The apartments are adorned with
paintings, some of which are in fresco, on the walls
representing the glories and the achievements of
the Obizzian heroes in days of old, and others
are on canvas being’ originals or copies of great
masters. The galleries, and one in particular of
very considerable length, are filled with Roman
antiquities, altars, vases, armour, inscriptions,
pillars, &c. On the whole, the castle is very
curious, and ought to be made the object of a par-
ticular visit, as an incidental hour is not sufficient
for an examination in detail of the various curio-
sities which it contains. *
* When we visited it, the proprietor was walking up and
down the great gallery, and giving directions to his servants