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entrance Gate, and two strong Towers, make this Castle one of the most Cavalier curiosities a man can see in Italy. They shewed me here the Cannon which killed Mareshal Crequy before Breme, and for that service its allowed to rest here for ever.
The shops.23. The shops of Crystals, where you have a world of curiosities in Crystal: as Watch-cases, Twizer-cases, little Boxes, Pictures cut in Crystal, Crosses and Beads of Crystal, &c. The Shops also of Silk-stockings which are hugely esteemed in Italy because they are twice as strong as ours, and very massive. The Shops, in fine, of Embroderers, whose embrodery in gold and silver is the best in the world, and the cheapest.
The Academy of Wits.24. Here is an Academy of Wits, called the Nascosti, or Hidden men. But why Hidden? seeing Wit, like the Sun, should shine publickly, and not bury it self; except it be to shew us, that as the Sun never shines brighter, then after he hath been hidden in a Cloud: so Wit never shines more, then afterit
