Chap. III. Low-Countrie 
a large Parlour. Among other Fabricks, we faw a 
little Country Seat belonging to the Marquifs of Capra, 
about half a League from the City : It is a fquare Build- 
ing, in the Midft whereof is the Hall, under a fmall 
Domej having at each Angie df the Square two Cham- 
bers and a Glofet : It has Ibme good Pidures, and its 
Situation on an Afeent makes it very pleafant. 
In our Return we look’d upon the Church of our 
Lady of Montheric ; the Prior gravely told us, that this 
Irnage of our Lady came out of the Earth, in the fame 
Place where Ihe now Hands, and from whence fhe is 
not to be removed ; for if you will believe him, ten 
thoufand Men have been employ’d to carry her to Vi- 
£en%a, but could not perform that Task. The Pidure 
by the Hand of Paul of Verona, in the Dining-Room, 
reprelenting St. Gregory at Dinner with fome Pilgrims, 
is a moft excellent Piece. The Ruins of the old Am- 
phitheatre at Vicenza are hid under other Buildings. 
The Theatre, which is in the Academy of the Olympicks, 
is the Work of the great Archited Palladio ; as is the 
Triumphal Arch without the Gates that lead into the 
Plain call’d the Field of Mars, in Imitation of the An- 
cients. 
The Garden of the Count Valmanara is a >Thing 
much boafted of among the Vincentins : It is, indeed, 
true, it has a handfome Canal, curious Divifions, Knots, 
and Clofets, and a moft delightful Alley of Oranges 
and Citrons ; but, after all, it wants much of being an 
accomplifh’d Piece, fuitable to the Infcription over the 
Garden Gate, which begins (and is continued) in the 
foilo\Ying pompous Strain. 
Stop, dear traveller, thou who fearchejl for rare 1‘hingi 
and enchanted Places, for here thou maiji find Satif- 
fadlion : Enter into this delicious Garden, and take a 
full Fa^e of all Sorts of Pleafures \ the Count de 
Valmanara thee Leave, &c. 
The Road betwixt Vicenza and Padua is much the 
fame as betwixt Verona and Vicenza. We paffed the 
L’ezenza about an Hour after we left Vicenza, and the 
Brenta an Hour on this Side of Padua, call’d, on Ac- 
count of 'its Univerfity, the Learned, a large and yet a 
very poor City, feated in the Midft of a moft fruitful 
Country, having many void Places without Houfes, and 
many Houfes without Inhabitants ; which is alfo the Cafe 
of fome other neighbouring Places. This City fell into 
the Hands of the Venetians in 1406, and in 1519, they 
included the Suburbs within the Fortifications, which 
are now ready to fall. The Streets of this City are li- 
ned on both Sides with. Portico’s or Piazza’s, which, 
tho’ they afford a convenient Shelter againft the Rains 
and Sun- beams, make them narrow and dark, and give 
Opportunity to many Murthers, Robberies, and other 
Infolencies committed by the Scholars, known by the 
Name of the ^i-va-li of Padua. 
Thefe Scholars had a Cuftom of going abroad arm’d 
in the Night-time in whole Troops, and lurking be- 
cv/een the Pillars of thefe Piazza's, affault fuch as hap- 
pen to pafs by that Way ; for whilft one asks the Quef- 
t\on, ^it-va-li ? Another immediately cuts, ^i-Va-la ? 
And fo^ without giving Time to the Paffenger to re^ 
colledt himfelf, knock him down, and fometimes break 
an Arm or a Leg, or perhaps give him a Paffport tO 
the Other World. Some underftanding Perfons in thefe 
Parts ate of Opinion, that Padua was forrherly a Sea- 
port, by reafon of its ancient Grandeur and Riches, 
and that now they fometimes dig Mafts and Anchors 
out of the Ground j but thefe may perhaps be the Rem- 
nants of Ships left in a Canal leading to that City. 
The Paduans boaft of Antenor as their firft Founder ; 
but not to infill: upon the Improbability of this After ti on, 
or enquire whether Padua be the Pataviurn of Antenor, I 
will only tell you, that their pretended Tomb of Ante- 
nor is a meer Impofition upon the World •, for, about 
four hundred Years ago, as they were laying the Foun- 
dation of an Hofpital, they happened to dig up a lea- 
den Coffin, near which lay a Sword i the Coffin was 
without any Infcription, but the Swoi d had fomeVerfes 
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in barbarous Latin, having but very little Relation td 
what was ufed in Antenor's, Days : Notwithftanding 
whichj the Paduans in general, but efpecially one Lu- 
putiis, a Man of forrie Learning, and who was one of 
their Magiftrates, were fo much prepoffefs’d with the 
Conceit of their pretended Founder, that they would 
needs eredl this Monument at the Entrance of St, Law- 
rence’^ Street, and beftow the Title of Antenor’^ ‘Tomb 
upon it, with the following Infcription in Gothick Gha-. 
rafters : 
C. Inclylus. Antenor. p'at'riam vox nifa quietem-, 
1'ranfiulit hue Enetum Dardanidumque fugas 
Expuli t Euganeos, Patavinam condidit Urbem 
Fluem tenet hie humili, m'armore cefa domus. 
Several Criticifms have been made upon this InfcHp- 
tion, but among all the reft, nobody has been able td. 
find out yet the Intention of the C. at the Beginning of 
thefe Verfes. The Tomb of Lupatus Hands juft by that 
of his dear Antenor, to whom he gave a Name, tho^ 
not a Beingi 
The Church of St. Anthony of Lisbon, otherwife call’d 
St. Anthony of Padua;, is both very large and exceeding 
magnificent in Carving and Painting, and many very 
fumptuous Tombs ; among the Jaft are that of Alexan- 
der Contarini, the Venetian Admiral, and of Count Ho^ 
ratio Sicco, kill’d at the laft Siege of Vienna. The 
Pifture in Frefco in the Chapel of Sr. Felix, done by the 
famous Giotto, is a moft admirable Piece : But the moft: 
confiderable Piece of all in this City, is, the Chapel of 
St. Anthony, which is forty Foot long, and twenty five 
broad ; his Body lies entomb’d under the Altar, which 
is very magnificent and rich : They pretend that his 
Bones fend forth an odoriferous Scent, for which Rea- 
fon there is kept a Place behind the Altar, which be- 
ing not well joined, it is no difficult Matter to put fome 
Balfam into the Opening. The Chapel is cover’d all 
over with a Baffo relievo Work of white Marble, repre- 
fenting the Miracles wrought by this Saint, the Works 
of 'Tullius Lombardus and Sanfovin. Before the Altar 
hang thirty fix great Silver Lamps, which burn Night 
and Dayj to the Honour of this Saint. 
The Church of St. Jufiina is both very large and 
very magnificent, tho’ not brought yet to its full Per- 
feftion •, the Pavement is compofed of red, black, and 
white Marble Squares ; and the Roof of the great 
Church hath feven Domes, which afford it both Light 
and Ornament^ and two more on each Arm of the 
Crofs : In it thefe are twenty four fine Marble Altars, 
all of a different Colour, befides the great Altar, which 
is a moft magnificent Work : They fuffer no Monu- 
ments to be erefted in this Church. The Baffo relitvd 
of the Benches of the Choir, reprefenting the Prophe- 
cies of the Old Tefiament concerning Chrift, with their 
Accomplifhment in the New, is almoft furpfizing : It 
was not finifhed in lefs Time than twenty two Years. 
The Hiftory of the Martyrdom of St. Jufiina over the; 
great Altar, is of the excellent Hand of Paul of Ve- 
rona-. The Monaftery is a vaft Pile of Buildings ha« 
ving no lefs than fix Cloyfters, and as many Courts and 
Gardens : I will not trouble you with the Story of the 
Image of the Virgin, which flew from ConfiantinopU 
when the Turks became Mafters of that City, no more 
than with an Account of the other Saints that are kept 
in this Church. The great Place near it, 256 Foot 
loiig, and 86 broad, was formerly called the Field of 
Mars, but has fince changed its Name into that of 
Prato della Valle, or the Meadow of the Valley, The 
Hall of the Town-houfe is a hundred and ten Paces' 
long, and forty broad, but dark It contains many 
Monuments of illuftrious PerfOns. The Paduans have 
had no lefs Succefs in finding the Tomb of their Coun- 
tryman T. Livius, than in that of Antenor, for in 1419, 
a Shrine of Lead having been found in the Gardens of 
St, Jufiina, they did not in the leaft queftion but that 
this Coffin muft be that of Titus Livius, confidering 
this noted Hiftorian was the Prieji of Concord, and that 
this Monaftery of the Benedidiines of St, Judiina was 
built upon the Ruins of the ancient Temple of Concord. 
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