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Quotes about Italy: Joseph Spence on Naples

This is also a wonderful place, or rather its’ environs are so. The town itself except the great street of Toledo is beastly, but the Quay (on which I live in an excellent hotel with a noble view of the Bay) Mt. Vesuvius which is all red hot every night, Portici, Pausilippum, and the rest of the towns on the sea coasts, form one of the most wonderfully delightful scenes I ever saw. The carnival is now begun, and the town full of plays, masquerades, operas, pickpockets, etc…
Joseph Spence from Naples, 1784-85

Author: Julia Shuvalova

Julia Shuvalova is the author of Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. She is an author of several books, a translator, and a Foreign Languages tutor. She lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

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