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156v (SM volume 162)

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156v (SM volume 162)

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Monday May 8th Went with Messrs / Collyer & Pratt to Mantua (J.Inagmells, Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, 1997: Charles Collyer, 1755-1830, Soane built Gunthorpe Hall for him in 1789; Edward Roger Pratt, 1756-1837, for whom Soane remodelled Ryston Hall, Norfolk, 1786) / 24 miles / The Palace of - Colleredo (now the Palace of Justice) by / Jiulio Romano - most wretch'd / & unfinish'd (in fact, by Antonio Maria Viani, and completed in 1604) - opposite it his / own house (in the Via Poma) / The Gate of Entrance by S. Michel / has great merit / The Dumo. (sic) has 5 nefs (naves) - the / Center - flat ciel'd, the others fram'd by / Columns of the Corinthn Order - in / form of Latin Cross / The T.[è] Palace (by Giulio Romano, 1525-32) has great Merit / the front is decorated with Doric

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