Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540585516
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (855 download)
Book Synopsis A Cleric in Naples by : Giacomo Casanova
Download or read book A Cleric in Naples written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: nt about the town. Chiozza is a peninsula, a sea-port belonging to Venice, with a population of ten thousand inhabitants, seamen, fishermen, merchants, lawyers, and government clerks. I entered a coffee-room, and I had scarcely taken a seat when a young doctor-at-law, with whom I had studied in Padua, came up to me, and introduced me to a druggist whose shop was near by, saying that his house was the rendezvous of all the literary men of the place. A few minutes afterwards, a tall Jacobin friar, blind of one eye, called Corsini, whom I had known in Venice, came in and paid me many compliments. He told me that I had arrived just in time to go to a picnic got up by the Macaronic academicians for the next day, after a sitting of the academy in which every member was to recite something of his composition. He invited me to join them, and to gratify the meeting with the delivery of one of my productions. I accepted the invitation, and, after the reading of ten stanzas which I had written for the occasion,