Notes of a Two Years Residence in Italy
Notes of a Two Years Residence in Italy
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" The dulness of Modena, and the silence of its streets, broken only by religious processions, and the ringing of the church bells — the general, and frequently almost only indication of life in an Italian town — would be insupportable, even to the duke himself, were it not for the opera, which, it is only fair to say, is splen- didly maintained by his highness ; it is a beautiful edifice, and admirably arranged, in point both of ele- gance and comfort; the price of the tickets is sc moderate a...s to place this most refined of all enjoy- ments within the reach of even the humblest citizens of Modena; the corps dramatique was far above the average — the singing very good, and the orchestra mag- 198 MODENA.
nificent ; yet the house was badly attended, and more than half of the magnificent tiers of boxes quite empty ; like the Albergo Reale, the opera must also be a very great drag on the revenues of his highness, but the cruelty and misgovernment that have banished so many of his native subjects, are as little calculated to invite the residence of foreigners ; and it is striking, that while the neighbouring capital of Tuscany is crowd- ed with strangers from every country in Europe, we did not hear of a single foreign family residing in Modena; and yet it is a beautiful town, the residence of a sovereign house, the centre of a rich and abun- dant country; but, alas!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" The dulness of Modena, and the silence of its streets, broken only by religious processions, and the ringing of the church bells — the general, and frequently almost only indication of life in an Italian town — would be insupportable, even to the duke himself, were it not for the opera, which, it is only fair to say, is splen- didly maintained by his highness ; it is a beautiful edifice, and admirably arranged, in point both of ele- gance and comfort; the price of the tickets is sc moderate a...s to place this most refined of all enjoy- ments within the reach of even the humblest citizens of Modena; the corps dramatique was far above the average — the singing very good, and the orchestra mag- 198 MODENA.
nificent ; yet the house was badly attended, and more than half of the magnificent tiers of boxes quite empty ; like the Albergo Reale, the opera must also be a very great drag on the revenues of his highness, but the cruelty and misgovernment that have banished so many of his native subjects, are as little calculated to invite the residence of foreigners ; and it is striking, that while the neighbouring capital of Tuscany is crowd- ed with strangers from every country in Europe, we did not hear of a single foreign family residing in Modena; and yet it is a beautiful town, the residence of a sovereign house, the centre of a rich and abun- dant country; but, alas!
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