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Travels Through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, Tr. by T. Holcroft
Travels Through Germany Switzerland Italy and Sicily Tr by T Holcroft Author:Friedrich Leopold Stolberg General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1797 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Naples. To-morrow morning we mall fet off on our return homeward. LETTER XCIX. Rome, ad Odober 1792. our journey from Naples, we made a delay of about four-and-twemy hours in Caferta ; where we were entertained, in a friendly manner, by Mr. Hackert. In my letter dated the 6th of February, I have fpoken of the great aqueduct; which may be compared to the greateft of thofe that were built by the Romans, and which was eonftrudted by the late King, to whom the Two Sicilies are fo much indebted. The plan was by Vanvitelli; one of the moft celebrated architects of Italy, who likewife built the royal palace, which ranks among the fined in Europe. It confifts of four divifions, or palaces, with four great courts. The ftair-cafc is in the centre; where the palaces are connected nedled by vaulted perfpedive colonnades; and it is. admired as a fingular mafterpiece of art. - Above it is a grand circular hall j with two colonnades, and a lofty cupola. The great Englifti garden is pleafant, be- caufe of its extenfive profpeds toward the furrounding mountains, its fhady walks, and its continued variety. It received new charms from the improvements made by Mr. GrafFer; a German gardener, who had formed him- felf by twenty years refidence in England j and who, to the art of laying out grounds, has added botanical fcience. He has not been five years in the King's fervice ; yet, favoured by the climate of Italy and the fertile foil of Capua, he has done enough in this mort time to excite general aftonimment. In a country where the Indian fig grows wild, and under the care, of a man of understanding, many of the exo...« less