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110 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 206.
church of S. Antonio , where I found likewise beautiful
paintings and marble statues, especially in its chapel, where
there are from eighty to eighty-eight silver lamps of consider
able size, also candlesticks, and especially one of pure gold,
which is rather large. There are also many tablets representing
the miracles wrought by S. Antonio of Padua. The town
hall and the other public buildings are old-fashioned. On the
evening of April 18 I sailed from Padua to Venice.
April 19. I arrived in Venice in a barque from Padua ;
and visited the two large squares [Piazza and Piazetta], where
the houses of parliament and of justice are, and where the
procurators live ; the mint ; the church of St. Mark ; the
church of the Jesuits, which is of more recent architecture,
[it was built from 1715 to 1730 ;] the church of S. Maria
della Salute.

April 20. I witnessed the festive return of the ambassador
of Venice, when most people wore masks. He was received
in the church of the Franciscans, far out of town, by the
senators, who, arrayed in red cloaks, had gone to meet him
there to the number of forty or fifty in company with the
former Venetian ambassador; there were firing of cannon,
an illumination on the water, and a ball.
[May] 15. I was present at the festival which they usually
celebrate on Ascension-day; I joined them in their expedition
and saw how the sea was consecrated. The masks continued
for a fortnight. I was also at the opera. Every Saturday
there is music in the Chiostro incurabile ed pietá. I had
lodgings near the Rialto bridge in the town. I was in company
with Mr. Firencrantz.
August 9. After finishing my work I left Venice for Padua,
and travelled thence to Vicenza and Verona, where I inspected
again the great amphitheatre ; they have a play there now.
I saw also the opera-house, and all the antiquities in the
neighbourhood. The opera-house has nine entrances, thirty
two rooms, etc.
August 14. I arrived at Mantua, which has few inhabitants,
and where there is very little to be seen. The only objects
* The procurators were the most powerful officials of the Venetian
republic.

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