Poems and Letters

XI. To Mr. Weft. On his own Leaving the University

XII. To his Mother. His Voyage from Dover.. Description of Calais.
Abbeville. Amiens. Face of the Country, and Dress of the People

XIII. To Mr. Weft. Monuments of the Kings of France at St. Denis, &c.

French Opera and Mufic. Actors, &c.

234

238

XIV. To Mr. Weft. Palace of Versailles.

Its Gardens and Water-works.

Installation of the Knights du S. Esprit

244

xv. To his Mother. Rheims. Its Cathedral. Disposition and Amusements

XVI. To his Father. Face of the Country between Rheims and Dijon.

Description of the latter. Monaftery of the Carthufians and

Ciftercians

249

253

XVII. To Mr. Weft. Lyons.

Beauty of its Environs. Roman Antiquities
Lyons. Excurfion to the Grande Chartreuse. Solemn

and romantic Approach to it. His reception there, and commen-

dation of the Monastery

256

260

XIX. To his Father. Geneva. Advantage of a free Government exhibited

in the very look of the People. Beauty of the Lake, and plenty

of its Fish

264

xx. To his Mother. Journey over the Alps to Turin. Singular Accident
in paffing them. Method of Travelling over Mount Cenis.

XXI. To Mr. Weft. Turin. Its Carnival. More of the Views and Scenery

on the Road to the Grande Chartreuse. Wild and favage Pro-

spects amongst the Alps, agreeable to Livy's description

Genoa. Mufic. The Doge. Churches and the

XXIII. To his Mother. Paintings at Modena. Bologna. Beauty and Rich-

nefs of Lombardy

281

XXIV. To his Mother. The Apennines. Florence and its Gallery

284

Letter

xxv. To Mr. Weft. Journey from Genoa to Florence. Elegiac Verses,

occafioned by the fight of the Plains where the Battle of Trebia

was fought

XXVI. To Mr. Wharton. Proposals for Printing his Travels. His Arrival

at Florence

XXVII. To his Mother. Death of the Pope. Intended departure for Rome.

First and pleasing appearance of an Italian Spring

XXVIII. To his Mother. Cathedral of Sienna. Viterbo. Distant fight of

Rome. The Tiber. Entrance into the City. St. Peter's. In-

troduction of the Cardinal d'Auvergne into the Conclave

XXIX. To his Mother. Illumination of St. Peter's on Good Friday, &c.

xxx. Mr. Walpole and Mr. Gray to Mr. Weft. Description of the Ruins

of the Temple of Minerva Medica. Some account of the Car-

dinal Corfini; his great Riches. Abftemious Living of the Chief

Princes. Cardinal Albani called extravagant for laying out a

Crown for his Dinner and Supper. Humorous Description of fome

of the Clergy. Vifit to St. Peter's, and inspection of a piece of the

True Crofs, St. Longinus's Spear, and St. Veronica's Hand-

kerchief. Defcription of the Proceffion at St. Peter's

Comic Account of the Palace of the Duke of Modena

at Tivoli. The Anio. Its Cafcade. Situation of the Town.

Villas of Horace and Mæcenas, and other remains of Antiquity.

Modern Aqueducts. A grand Roman Ball

317

XXXII. To Mr. Weft. An Alcaic Ode. Ludicrous allufion to Ancient Roman

Cuftoms. Albano and its Lake. Caftle Gondolpho. Profpect

from the Palace; an Observation of Mr. Walpole's on the Views

in that part of Italy. Latin Infcriptions Ancient and Modern

XXXIII. To his Mother. Road to Naples. Beautiful Situation of that City.

Its Bay.
Of Baix, and several other Antiquities. Some

Account of the First Discovery of an Ancient Town, now known

XXXIV. To his Father. Departure from Rome and Return to Florence.

No likelihood of the Conclave's Rifing. Some of the Cardinals

Dead. Description of the Pretender, his Sons, and Court.

Proceffion at Naples. Sight of the King and Queen. Mildness

of the Air at Florence.

Page

335

xxxv. To Mr. Weft. Some Account of Naples and its Environs, and of

Mr. Walpole's and his Return to Florence

xxxvI. Mr. Walpole and Mr. Gray to Mr. Weft. Divifions in the Conclave

on the Election of a Pope. Walpole's Sarcafm on the Ladies

P and W, and Lady MW M. Gray's

Description of the Method of Paffing his Time at Florence

XXXVII. To his Mother. Excurfion to Bologna. Election of a Pope; De-

scription of his Person, with an Odd Speech which he made to

339

345

the Cardinals in the Conclave

XXXVIII. To Mr. Weft. Description in Latin Hexameters of the fudden rising

of Monte Nuovo near Puzzoli, and of the destruction which at-

tended it

XXXIX. To his Father. Uncertainty of the Route he shall take in his Return

to England. Magnificence of the Italians in their Reception of

Strangers, and parfimony when alone. The great applause which

the new Pope meets with. One of his Bons Mots

XL. To his Father. Total want of Amusement at Florence, occasioned

by the late Emperor's Funeral not being public. A Proceffion

to avert the ill effects of a late Inundation. Intention of going

to Venice. An Invafion from the Neapolitans apprehended.

The Inhabitants of Tuscany diffatisfied with the Government

XLI. To Mr. West. The time of his Departure from Florence determined.

Alteration in his Temper and Spirits. Difference between an

Italian Fair and an English one. A Farewell to Florence and its

Prospects in Latin Hexameters. Imitation, in the fame Lan-

guage, of an Italian Sonnet

368

Letter

XLII. To Mr. West. Earnest hopes for his Friend's better Health, as the warm Weather comes on. Defence of Tacitus, and his character. Of the new Dunciad. Sends him a Speech from the first Scene of his Agrippina

Page

373

XLIII. To Mr. Weft. Thanks for his Verses. On Jofeph Andrews. Defence of old Words in Tragedy.

387

XLIV. To Mr. Weft. Has laid afide his Tragedy. Difficulty of translating
Tacitus

393

XLV. To Mr. Weft. Of his own peculiar fpecies of Melancholy. Infcription

for a Wood in Greek Hexameters. Argument and Exordium of a
Latin Heroic Epiftle from Sophonisba to Massinissa

404

NOTES TO THE LETTERS

413

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