Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . e is a pretty good collection of pictures,,antique bufts, and ftatues. The fupposd bones of Antenor and Livy are almoft in ashigh efteem with the Paduans as thofe of their two evangelifts;and the two former may in time become faints, as Boetiusis now at Pavia. The tomb of Antenor is placd at the end of a ftreet, (Ithink tis that of St. Lorenzo) in a row with two others ; oneof which is Zabarella, an ancient noble Paduan. The tomb of Livy is placd at the upper end of the town-houfe, which
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . e is a pretty good collection of pictures,,antique bufts, and ftatues. The fupposd bones of Antenor and Livy are almoft in ashigh efteem with the Paduans as thofe of their two evangelifts;and the two former may in time become faints, as Boetiusis now at Pavia. The tomb of Antenor is placd at the end of a ftreet, (Ithink tis that of St. Lorenzo) in a row with two others ; oneof which is Zabarella, an ancient noble Paduan. The tomb of Livy is placd at the upper end of the town-houfe, which is very large, and much refembles Weftminfter-Hall : tis up ftairs. About the upper end there are fome oldpaintings, much decayd ; they are faid to be of Giotto. To-wards the lower end is what the call they Lapis Vituperli. On this ftone twas anciently a cuftom (not praclisd oflate) that if a debtor would fit down bare-buttockd, in a fullaflembly, and fwear himfelf not worth fuch a fum, (aboutfive pound of our money) he fhould be freed from his debt,and all further profecution of his creditors. Though. J^a<7. 4j$.
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