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Vol. I. io IT AL Y.
The Garden of the Count of Valmanara, is
very much extoll’d in this City, and the Inscri-
ption which we read over the Door, put us in
great Expectations. This is the Substance of it:
Stop, dear Traveller, thou, who [earcheft sor rare
things, and enchanted places; for here thou may ft find
satufablion. Enter into this delicious Garden, and
tafte abundantly of all sorts os Pleasures: The Count os
Vaimanara gives thee leave, See.
They had indeed once design’d to have made this a
very agreeable place. There was a Canal, Divi-
sions, or Knots, and Closets; and there still re-
mains an Alley of Citron and Orange-Trees,
which is really very pleasant.
This Signior Conte puts me in mind of
a pleasant Story, which I have read in several
Authors. They say that Charles the Fifth being
at Vicenza, a great number of Gentlemen and
rich Burgesses of that place, pressed him very
earnestly to grant them the Title of Counts:
The Emperor stept backwards to avoid ’em, but
in the end, to get rid of these troublesome Peo-
ple, said aloud, Well, well, I make you all Counts,
both the City and Suburbs. Since that time, says
the History, nothing is more common than the
Counts of Vicenza.
The way srom Vicenza to Padua is in all respedls
like that between Verona and Vicenza. We passed
the Tezenza about three quarters of an Hour from
Vicenza, and the Brenta an flour from Padua. 1
know not whether the Antiquaries are agreed
concerning this Brenta: Some pretend that ’tis
the Timavus, and others, that it is one of the
Medoacus’s: The firll Opinion seems lead proba-
ble, because of the River Timavus, which palses
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The Garden of the Count of Valmanara, is
very much extoll’d in this City, and the Inscri-
ption which we read over the Door, put us in
great Expectations. This is the Substance of it:
Stop, dear Traveller, thou, who [earcheft sor rare
things, and enchanted places; for here thou may ft find
satufablion. Enter into this delicious Garden, and
tafte abundantly of all sorts os Pleasures: The Count os
Vaimanara gives thee leave, See.
They had indeed once design’d to have made this a
very agreeable place. There was a Canal, Divi-
sions, or Knots, and Closets; and there still re-
mains an Alley of Citron and Orange-Trees,
which is really very pleasant.
This Signior Conte puts me in mind of
a pleasant Story, which I have read in several
Authors. They say that Charles the Fifth being
at Vicenza, a great number of Gentlemen and
rich Burgesses of that place, pressed him very
earnestly to grant them the Title of Counts:
The Emperor stept backwards to avoid ’em, but
in the end, to get rid of these troublesome Peo-
ple, said aloud, Well, well, I make you all Counts,
both the City and Suburbs. Since that time, says
the History, nothing is more common than the
Counts of Vicenza.
The way srom Vicenza to Padua is in all respedls
like that between Verona and Vicenza. We passed
the Tezenza about three quarters of an Hour from
Vicenza, and the Brenta an flour from Padua. 1
know not whether the Antiquaries are agreed
concerning this Brenta: Some pretend that ’tis
the Timavus, and others, that it is one of the
Medoacus’s: The firll Opinion seems lead proba-
ble, because of the River Timavus, which palses
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