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whence ’tis plain, that the whole Street is ;ooo
Foot long.
The Statues of Alexander Farne/e Governour of
the Spanijh Netherlands, and of his Son Ranuccio
the First, are in the great Place.
We went up to the top of the highesl Steeple,
according to our usual Custom, from whence we
diseover’d an admirable Landskip, extremely cm-
bellilh’d by the Course of the Po; and even saw
Cremona dillinftly, which is Twenty Miles distant
from this Place.
I have not thought fit to mention the Churches There are Jone
of this City, and am resolv’d hereafter to trouble P^ures by
you very rarely with Descriptions of that nature; Cathedral”
for, as I intimated to you before, when one’s andanimae
Head is full of the Idea’s of such magnificent os our Lady
Churches as we have seen, ’tis almost a pain to Raphael,^
him to look upon any others. Hug1*™5
I lhall only add concerning Piacenza, that it is
thinly inhabited ; that the Houses are generally
built of Brick ; and that its Weights, Measures,
and Coins are different from those of Parma. Its
Fortifications are not very considerable, tho’ they
are commonly much extoll’d. The Pomarium is
surrounded with Polls, without any Buildings;
I know not whether I made the same Observa-
tion concerning Leghorn, in one of my former
Letters.
We sollow’d the Course of the Po, at some di-
stance, till we came over againlt Cremona, where
We cross’d over the River in a Ferry-boat. There
are no Bridges on the Po below Turin.
Cremona is seated on the left Bank of that Ri- C R EMO*
Ver, in the Dutchy of Milan. ’Tis a pretty large N A- .
City, but even poorer and lets populous than •
Piacenza. There is nothing at all to be seen in
it, tho’ its Tower and Callie are very much ex-
P toll’d.
whence ’tis plain, that the whole Street is ;ooo
Foot long.
The Statues of Alexander Farne/e Governour of
the Spanijh Netherlands, and of his Son Ranuccio
the First, are in the great Place.
We went up to the top of the highesl Steeple,
according to our usual Custom, from whence we
diseover’d an admirable Landskip, extremely cm-
bellilh’d by the Course of the Po; and even saw
Cremona dillinftly, which is Twenty Miles distant
from this Place.
I have not thought fit to mention the Churches There are Jone
of this City, and am resolv’d hereafter to trouble P^ures by
you very rarely with Descriptions of that nature; Cathedral”
for, as I intimated to you before, when one’s andanimae
Head is full of the Idea’s of such magnificent os our Lady
Churches as we have seen, ’tis almost a pain to Raphael,^
him to look upon any others. Hug1*™5
I lhall only add concerning Piacenza, that it is
thinly inhabited ; that the Houses are generally
built of Brick ; and that its Weights, Measures,
and Coins are different from those of Parma. Its
Fortifications are not very considerable, tho’ they
are commonly much extoll’d. The Pomarium is
surrounded with Polls, without any Buildings;
I know not whether I made the same Observa-
tion concerning Leghorn, in one of my former
Letters.
We sollow’d the Course of the Po, at some di-
stance, till we came over againlt Cremona, where
We cross’d over the River in a Ferry-boat. There
are no Bridges on the Po below Turin.
Cremona is seated on the left Bank of that Ri- C R EMO*
Ver, in the Dutchy of Milan. ’Tis a pretty large N A- .
City, but even poorer and lets populous than •
Piacenza. There is nothing at all to be seen in
it, tho’ its Tower and Callie are very much ex-
P toll’d.