In The Palazzo Pubblico (Hotel De Ville) Is A Christ And A Samson By
Guido Reni; But What Pleased Me Most In The Way Of Painting Was The
Collection In The Gallery Of Count Marescalchi.
The Count has been at great
pains to form it and has shown great taste and discernment.
It is a small
but unique collection. Here is to be seen a head of Christ, the colouring
of which is so brilliant as to illuminate the room in which it is appended,
when the shutters are closed, and in the absence of all other light except
what appears thro' the crevices of the window shutters. This head, however,
does not seem characteristic of Christ; it wants the gravity, the soft
melancholy and unassuming meekness of the great Reformer: in short, from
the vivid fire of the eyes and the too great self-complacency of the
countenance, it gave me rather the idea
Del biondo Dio che in Tessalia si adora.
I passed two hours in this cabinet. I next repaired to the centre of the
city with the intention of ascending one at least of the two square towers
or campanili which stand close together, one of which is strait, the
other a leaning one. Garisendi is the name of the leaning tower, and it
forms a parallelipipedon of 140 feet in height and about twenty feet in
breath and length. It leans so much as to form an angle of seventy-five
degrees with the ground on which it stands.
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