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NM.764.020
17 Sep 1764:21,22 (315)
Venice, May 30. His royal highness the Duke of York,
entered the Venetian state, from Mantua, on Friday the 25th
instant; and was escorted from the frontiers by detachment
of light dalmatian cavalry to Verona. . . . As his royal
highness only got out of his coach to see the Olympick
Theatre at Vicenza, the podesta sent a deputy to compliment
him at the coach door. . . . In the evening his royal
highness went to a very large box, richly furnished for his
reception, to see the opera of Caius Marius represented in
the Great Theatre at St. John Chrysostom's, and was attended
there by the deputies; as he was also the following night in
a box finely fitted up to see the opera of Sophonisba, in
the Theatre of St. Luke's. . . . was shewn the different
stores, and conducted into the great armory, where there was
a rinfresco, and a concert of musick, and from the balcony
saw the shews called Le Forze Ercole and the Moresca Dance.
. . .
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