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Hollies and Villa's , looked like a loaden with Ships under fail. Entring into this Monaftery, I law the Oval Court painted by feveral Prime Matters, of which Guido Rheni of Then mounting up to the Bologna was one. Dormitory, I found it to be one of the fairett I white had ever feen. , 6. The Monaftery, or Convent of the FrancifQ /? cans , with the rare row of Pillars , and Portico lyMqi^Utowards the Street, the excellent drifters, and ria. the curious Cellar. 7. The Monaftery of St. Salvatore with its two vatt Courts or double Cloifter built upon Galleries above, it’s a Noble Building. 8. The Monaftery of the Servits , that of the Auguftins, and that of the Carmelites , are all of them fuch ftately Buildings, that 1 may boldly fay, that no Town in Europe is comparable to Bologna for fair Monafteries. 9. Then I vifited San Petronio , ftanding i ns.Petronithe end of the great Piazza , of which Church °’s chunk Leandro Alberto writ a hundred years ago, that he thought it would not be ended but with the Worlds end. And I am half of his opinion ; for when 1 patted that way laft, I found the Scaf folds yet handing, which I had found there one and twenty years before ; and yet in all my five Voyages into Italy , I found them always knocking and making as much noife and dutt, as if this Church lhould be finifhed within half a year when as yet half of it is only finished. In this ChurchC^r/^the V. was crowned Emperor by Clement the VII.