Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note: Evident printing errors have been changed, but otherwise the original (and antiquated) spelling has been preserved, in both English and other languages. The errata have been corrected. A VIEW OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS IN ITALY: WITH ANECDOTES relating to some EMINENT CHARACTERS. BY JOHN MOORE, M. D. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Strenua nos exercet inertia: navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis, hic est. HOR. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON: Printed for W. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL, in the Strand. MDCCLXXXI. ADVERTISEMENT. The following observations on Italy, and on Italian manners, occurred in the course of the same Tour in which those contained in a book lately published, entitled _A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany_, were made. All who have read that book will perceive, at first sight, that the present work is a continuation of the former; but to those who have not, it was thought necessary to account for the abrupt manner in which the following Letters begin. Clarges-street, December 14, 1780. _Just Published_, A NEW EDITION OF A VIEW of SOCIETY and MANNERS in FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, and GERMANY; with ANECDOTES relating to some EMINENT CHARACTERS. In Two Volumes. Price 10s. in Boards. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LETTER I. p. 1. _Journey from Vienna to Venice._ LETTER II. p. 20. _The arsenal.—The Bucentaur.—Doge’s marriage._ LETTER III. p. 27. _The island of Murano.—Glass manufactory.—Mr. Montague._ LETTER IV. p. 39. _Situation of Venice.—Lagune.—Canals.—Bridges._ LETTER V. p. 46. _Piazza di St. Marco.—Patriarchal church.—Ducal palace.—Broglio._ LETTER VI. p. 56. _Reflections excited by the various objects around St. Mark’s square.—On painting.—A connoisseur._ LETTER VII. p. 69. _Origin of Venice._ LETTER VIII. p. 77. _Various changes in the form of government.—Tyrannical conduct of a Doge.—Savage behaviour of the people.—Commerce of Venice._ LETTER IX. p. 89.