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St.John’.
and St. An-
thony’/.
PLACEN-
ZA.
J New Voyage Vol. Ifi
Besides the ordinary Schools of the University,
there is a large and fair College, call’d the Coh
lege of the Nobility. They receive Scholars of
all Nations, who are capable of being admitted
Knights of Malta. Not only the Sciences, but
all manner of Exercises are taught here; and the
Pensions are different, according to the variety
of the Studies. The Scholars eat together in a
Refectory, and their Number at present amounts
to Two hundred and thirty.
The Dome of the Cathedral was painted by
Corregio; and there are several good Pictures in
■ the * Principal Churches.
We saw a great deal of good Company at the
Cours or Walk, especially fair and handsom Wo-
men, but they observe the ridiculous Customs os
Rome: for Perlons of disferent Sexes never go into
thesameCoadqyou may see a Heap of Men in one
Coach, and a Troop of Women in another; and
they would be as much asham’d to be seen toge-
ther, as to walk naked about the Streets. Is there
not a strange Medley of Humours and Prejudices
in theWorld?
Parma is ; y Miles distant from Piacenza. In
our Journey thither we pass’d by a little disman-
tled Town call’d Borgo S. Donino; we saw neither
Villages nor Rivers on all this Road, that deserve
to be mention’d.
Piacenza is seated in a Plain, five or six hundred
Paces from the Po. It is a pleasant Town, bigger
than Parma ; the Houles are low, but very prettily
built. The Street of the Cours3 which they call
the Stradone, is (freight as a line, and of an equal
Breadth throughout. Next the Houses, on each
side of it, there is a Foot-path fenc’d in by a row
of Three hundred Posss, as at London; these
Posts are just ten Foot distant from each other;
whence
St.John’.
and St. An-
thony’/.
PLACEN-
ZA.
J New Voyage Vol. Ifi
Besides the ordinary Schools of the University,
there is a large and fair College, call’d the Coh
lege of the Nobility. They receive Scholars of
all Nations, who are capable of being admitted
Knights of Malta. Not only the Sciences, but
all manner of Exercises are taught here; and the
Pensions are different, according to the variety
of the Studies. The Scholars eat together in a
Refectory, and their Number at present amounts
to Two hundred and thirty.
The Dome of the Cathedral was painted by
Corregio; and there are several good Pictures in
■ the * Principal Churches.
We saw a great deal of good Company at the
Cours or Walk, especially fair and handsom Wo-
men, but they observe the ridiculous Customs os
Rome: for Perlons of disferent Sexes never go into
thesameCoadqyou may see a Heap of Men in one
Coach, and a Troop of Women in another; and
they would be as much asham’d to be seen toge-
ther, as to walk naked about the Streets. Is there
not a strange Medley of Humours and Prejudices
in theWorld?
Parma is ; y Miles distant from Piacenza. In
our Journey thither we pass’d by a little disman-
tled Town call’d Borgo S. Donino; we saw neither
Villages nor Rivers on all this Road, that deserve
to be mention’d.
Piacenza is seated in a Plain, five or six hundred
Paces from the Po. It is a pleasant Town, bigger
than Parma ; the Houles are low, but very prettily
built. The Street of the Cours3 which they call
the Stradone, is (freight as a line, and of an equal
Breadth throughout. Next the Houses, on each
side of it, there is a Foot-path fenc’d in by a row
of Three hundred Posss, as at London; these
Posts are just ten Foot distant from each other;
whence