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cognomen for a saint. His church here would give one the idea that he was rather a wolf in peacock’s clothing than in the ordinary habit of sheep’s^x. The cathedral is the first in Italian style of architecture we have yet seen. This is a good specimen, but Gothic in the true ecclesiastical style.

And now for the Citadel: one of the places it most delighted me last year to visit last year, both from its curious and interesting & vast military works, & principally for its magnificent views of the country around. It is very preferable to view a country from a natural mound like this (for although these heights are partly artificial, yet the greensward covers them) than from the top of a tower, where you are the mercy of the wind or of the guide & where you gaze & return down again. Here

^x for a more gaudy one I never saw. The ceiling is beautifully carved in stone & could tempt the eyes heavenwards if no other motive were present.

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