Venice Under the Yoke of France and of Austria; with Memoirs of the Courts, Governments, and People of Italy: Presenting a Faithful Picture of Her Pres

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... this part of Italy, in consequence of the scanty notice which has been taken of it by the generality of our travellers, and because I have felt anxious to speak of it in the terms which it richly merits; having myself the honour to belong to a noble family of Piedmontese origin; a branch of which transplanted itself to Venice, in consequence of the last great plague which desolated that country. CHAPTER XXIV. PADUA. Mode of Travelling from Padua to Venice Padua described Church and Tomb of St. Antonio Convent and Church of Santa Giustina The Hall of Justice...... Anecdotes of Pietro oTApono The Cathedral Petrarca Colleges Amphitheatre Anecdotes of Galileo Account of the Seminary founded by Cardinal Barbarigo Libraries Botanical Gardens Museum of Natural History. To write a couple of volumes on the subject of Italy, and not to find room for a short chapter, on Padova la Dotta, "the nursery of the arts," the birth-place of Livy, the residence of Petrarch, and the asylum of the great Galileo, would be unpardonable in any traveller; but especially in one who has resided, for so many years, at a short distance from this the most ancient and learned city of Italy. The best way of travelling from Venice to Padua, is to adopt the practice of the natives; namely, to hire a boat called a peotta. The common conveyance, which is the barca di Padova, is changed at Oriago; for the water becoming more shallow, the first boat is no further navigable. The price of the passage from Venice to Padua is about three or four Venetian livTes. The boat is sometimes filled with tolerable society; but, the one which sets off from Venice at night and arrives at Padua the next morning, is by no means an advisable mode of travelling; not that it is unsafe, but the...

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