Volume 2

A new voyage to Italy. With curious observations on several other countries. As, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders, and Holland. Together with useful instructions for those who shall travel thither / [Maximilien Misson].

  • Misson, Maximilien, 1650?-1722
Date:
1739
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Credit: A new voyage to Italy. With curious observations on several other countries. As, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders, and Holland. Together with useful instructions for those who shall travel thither / [Maximilien Misson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ufed to travel, was ftill choaked up with Snow. 5Twas but a very few days before that three Ca- lafhes and fix PafTengers were loft in it. At our leaving the Mountains, near a little Village called Palay we difcovered from an Height the Plain of Foligno, which from thence makes one of the fin eft Profpedls in the World. This great Bottom is encompafied with rich Hillocks, watered with feveral Rivers, adorn’d with many pleafant Houfes, and wTell cultivated. We had icarcely efcaped from the Snow and Rocks, and the cold and piercing Winds, but on a fudden we found ourfelves fanned by the Air of a mild Cli- Hie Ver affi- mate. The Almond-Trees were already bloftom’d, G^T'i Virg' a Moment fucceeded to the Furzes of the Mountains: And this, added to the Beauty of a fair and calm Day, gave us the delicious Profpecl: of a fine Summer. We could not give over con¬ templating this lovely Garden,whofe extraordinary Beauties defcrve the higheft Praifes. After we had infenfibly jogged on three or four Miles in a continual Deicent, we enter’d into a Freight and level Way, on the Side of which runs a pretty large Brook, which is extremely clear. And a Mile after we arrived at Foligno. Tho’ this City is fcated in a Terreftriai Paradife, it has no- A Bifhoprick, thing elfe confiderable : Yet they fay, it enjoys a Suffragan of better Trade than moft of the other Cities of the Rome. FOLIGNO FuJginium. Fulginia. Fuicin’mm. They boaft Ecclefiaftical State, which we have feen. Their much of their Trade conftfts in Cloth, Gold and Silver Lace, dried Sweet- fome Silks, and Spicery. Foligno is built upon meats; But I t}ie ailcient For nm Flaminii, of which there is ftill fonThey have ^me Marble and other fmall Fragments remain¬ ing *, thos this Place was utterly deftroy’d by the Goths. Since that Time the new City has alfo been lack’d by thole of Perottfa, under the Pontificate of Martin V, who chaftis’d ’em for it. The great Brook that runs through it, call’d Fupino, is not navigable» to commend them.