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master_n	worthy_a	write_v	writing_n	19	3	8.6763	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30463	Some letters, containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. in the years 1685 and 1686 written by G. Burnet, D.D. to the Hoble. R.B. ; to which is added, An appendix, containing some remarks on Switzerland and Italy, writ by a person of quality, and communicated to the author ; together with a table of the contents of each letter.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5920; ESTC R21514	187,788	260

Many motions of little Animals that run about by Springs are also very pretty There is a Load-stone of a vast force that carries a great Chain There is also a moustrous Child that was lately born in the Hospital which is preserved in Spirit of Wine it is double below it hath one Breast and Neck two pair of Ears a vast Head and but one Face As for the Buildings in M●lan they are big and substantial but they have not much regular or beautiful Architecture The Governor's Palace hath some noble Apartments in it the chief Palace of the Town is that of the Homodei which was built by a Bankier There is one Inconvenience in Milan which throws down all the Pleasure that one can find in it They have no glass Windows so that one is either exposed to the Air or shut up in a Dungeon and ●his is so universal that there is not one House of ten that hath Glass in their Windows The same D●fect is in Florence besides all the small Towns of Italy which is an effect of their Poverty Fort what by the Oppression of the Government wha by the no less squeezing Oppression of their Priests who drain all the rest of their Weal●h that is not eat up by the Prince to inrich their Churches and Convents the People here are reduced to a Poverty that cannot be easily believed by one that sees the Wealth that is in their Churches and this is going on so constantly in Milan that it is scarce accountable from whence so vast a Treasure can be found but Purgatory is a Fund not easily exhausted The Wealth of the Milanese consists chiefly in their Silks and that Trade falls so mightily by the vast Importations that the East India Companies bring into Europe that all Italy feels this very sensibly and languish extreamly by the great fall that is in the Silk-Trade There is a great magnificence in Milan the Nobility affect to make a noble Appearance both in their Cloaths their Coaches and their Attendants and the Women go abroad with more Freedom here than in any Town of Italy And thus I have told you all that hitherto occurred to me that I thought worth your knowledge I am Yours Postscript In the Account that I gave you of Geneva I forgot to Mention a very extraordinary Person that is there M●stris Walkier her Father is of Shaff-house she lost her sight when she was but a year old by being too near a Stove that was very hot There rests in the upper part of her eye so much sight that she distinguishes day from night and when any person stands between her and the light she will distinguish by the Head and its dress a Man from a Woman but when she turns down her Eyes she sees nothing she hath a vast Memory besides the French that is her natural Language she speaks both High-Dutch Italian and Lat●n she hath all the Psalms by heart in French and many of them in Dutch and Italian she understands the Old Philosophy well and is now studying the New she hath studied the Body of Divinity well and hath the Text of the S●riptures very ready On all which matters I had long conversation with her she not only sings well but she playes rarely on the Organ and I was told she played on the Violin but her Violin was out of order But that which is most of all is she writes legibly in order to her learning to write her Father who is a worthy man and hath such tenderness for her that he furnisheth her with Masters of all sorts ordered Letters to be carved in Wood and she by feeling the Characters formed such ●n Idea of them that she writes with a Crayon so distinctly that her writing can be well read of which I have several Essayes I saw her write she doth it more nimbly than can be imagined she hath a Machine ●hat holds the Paper and keeps her alwayes in Line But that which is above all the rest she is a person of extraordinary Devotion great resignation to the Will of God and a profound humility The Preceptor that her Father kept in the house with her hath likewise a wonderful Faculty of acquiring Tongues When he came first to Geneva for he is of Zurich he spoke not a word of French and within thirteen Months he preacht in French correctly and with a good Accent He also began to study Italian in the Month of November and before the end of the following February he preacht in Italian his accent was good and his stile was floried which was very extraordinary for the Italian Language is not spoken in Geneva tho the race of the Italians do keep up still an Italian Church there THE THIRD LETTER Florence the 5 th of November 1685. I Have now another Month over my Hea● since I writ last to you and so I know you expect an Account of the most considerable things that have occurred to me since my last from Milan Twenty miles from Milan we past through Lodi a miserable Gar●ison tho a Frontier Town but indeed the Frontiers both of the Spaniards and the Venetians as well as those of the other Prin●es of Italy shew that they are not very apprehensive of one another and when one passes through those places whi●h are represented in History as places of great strength capable of resisting a long Siege he must acknowledge that the sight of them brings the Idea that he had conceived of them a great many degrees lower For Lombardy which was so long the seat of War could not stand out against a good Army now so many dayes as it did then years The Garrison of Crema which is the first of the Venetian Territory is no better than that of Lodi only the People in the Venetian Dominion live happier than under the Spaniard The Senate sends Podesta's much like the Bailifs of the Switzers who order the Ju●●ice and the Civil Government of the Iurisdiction assigned them There is also a Captain-Gen●ral who hath the Military Authority in his hands and these two are Checks upon one another as the B●ss●'s and the Cadi's are among the Turks But here in Crema the Town is so small that both these are in one person We were there in the time of the Fair Linnen Cloath and Cheese which tho it goes by the name of the Parmesan is made chief●y in Lodi are the main Commodities of the Fair. The magnificence of the Podesta appeared very extraordinary for he went through the Fair with a great Train of Coaches all in his own Livery and the two Coaches in which he and his Lady ride were both extraordinary rich his was a huge Bed-coach all the out-side black Velvet and a mighty rich Gold Fringe lined with black Damask flowered with Gold. From Crema it is thirty Miles to Bres●ia which is a great Town and full of Trade and Wealth here they make the best Barrils for Pistols and Muskers of