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153v (SM volume 162)

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153v (SM volume 162)

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La Cathedrale est d'ordre Gothicque / couverte de marbre noir & blanc / Les Eglises les plus remarquable sont / l'Annonciade, Les Jesuite (Gesù) & l'eglise / Carignan / Palaces / Brignole (Palazzo Rosso) / Durazzo - Paolo Veronese (Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini in the Strada Balbi and see (in this Sketchbook catalogue) Itinéraire des Routes les plus fréquentées ... ' by Louis Dutens, 1777, annotated by Soane, p.45 for Soane's rough plan of its entrance hall and stair) / Balbi (there are six Palazzo Balbi, all in the Via Balbi) / Doges Palace (Palazzo Ducale), more like a miserable / Workhouse in front & Cortiles in / one side of the first Cortile they are / makg a new front of Stucco, ¾ / Doric Cols. & Ionic over them / Il Teatro Falcone (in the Palazzo Reale) - (starring) dogs & Monkey & / Miss (Cecilia) Davies (an English opera singer) - Siga Carafina / Durazzo Staircase (Durazzo-Pallavicini Palace, Genoa) see Dutens (Louis Dutens, op.cit.)

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Drawing

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