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NYM(G.764.051
3 Sep 1764:21 (671)
Venice, May 30. His royal highness the Duke of York entered
the Venetian state, from Mantua, on Friday the 25th instant,
and was escorted from the frontier by detachments of Light
Dalmatian Cavalry to Verona. . . As his royal highness only
got out of his coach to see the Olympick Theatre at Vicenza,
the Podesta sent a deputy to compliment him at the coach
door. . . In the evening his royal highness went to a very
large box, richly furnished for his reception, to see the
Opera of Caius Marius represented in the Great Theatre at
St. John Chrysostom's, and was attended there by the
deputies; as he was also the following night in a box finely
fitted up to see the Opera of Sophonisba, in the theatre of
St. Luke's . . . was shewn the different stores, and
conducted into the great armory, where there was a
rinfresco, and a concert of musick, and from the balcony saw
the shews called le Forze Ercole and the moresca dance. . .
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