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which Guido Rheni of Bologna was one. Then mounting up to the Dormitory, I found it to be one of the fairest I had ever seen.

Other stately Monasteries.6. The Monastery, or Convent of the Franciscans, with the rare row of Pillars, and Portico towards the Street, the excellent Cloisters, and the curious Cellar.

7. The Monastery of St. Salvatore with its two vast Courts or double Cloister built upon galleries above, its a Noble Building.

8. The Monastery of the Servits, that of the Augustins, and that of the Carmelites, are all of them such Stately Buildings, that I may boldly say, that no Town in Europe is comparable to Bologna for fair Monasteries.

S. Petronio's Church9. Then I visited San Petronio, standing in the end of the great Piazza, of which Church Leandro Alberto writ a hundred years ago, that he thought it would not be ended bnt with the Worlds end. And I am half of his opinion: for when I passed that way last, I found the Scaffolds yet standing, which I had

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