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Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various

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Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Name: Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Chaplains to Noblemen--Mitigation
    of Capital Punishment to a Forger--Brydone the
    Tourist--Yankee--Miniature Ring of Charles I.--Bishop of
    Ossory: Cardinal's Hat--Hugh Oldham, Bishop of
    Exeter--"sic transit gloria mundi"--Wake--"Words given
    to Man to conceal his Thoughts"--Inscription on Penny of
    George III.--"Nine Tailors make a Man"--On Quotations--
    Rhymes on Places--Coins in Foundations--Fleshed, Meaning
    of--Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh--Flemish and
    Dutch Schools of Painting--Furmety or Frumenty--Etymology
    of Pearl, &c.                                              163

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Notes on Books, &c.                                          168

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                 168

  Notices to Correspondents                                    169

  Advertisements                                               169

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Notes.

ITALIAN ENGLISH.

I have been favoured by a friend, who visited Italy last year, with the
perusal of a small guidebook, which has afforded me much amusement, and
from which I send you a few extracts for the gratification of your readers.
The title runs thus:

    "Description of the front and interior of the Cathedral of Milan the
    first edition corrected, and increased with interesting things Milan by
    the printer Luigi di Giacomo Pirola M.DCCC.XLVI."

The Preface is as follows:

    "In presenting to the learned and intelligent Publick this new and
    brief Description of the Cathedral of Milan, i must apprise that i do
    not mean to emulate with the works already existing of infinite merit
    for the notions they contain, and the perspicuity with which they are
    exposed. My idea only was to make an extract of them, not forgetting
    the principal things of observation, with the names of the most
    distinguished artists, and not to deprive them of all the digressions
    and explanations required by the Scientificals, or those skilled in the
    art, so that it might be contained in a Pamphlet, and of little
    expence, to be offered to the amateurs of fine arts, who come to visit
    this unique and magnificent Edifice. Therefore i have not failed to
    include in it, all that has been done subsequently to the publishment
    of the above works, with some other little trifles worthy to be seen,
    and in them not mentioned. Such has been my sole design, no other
    pretention has induced me to it, and with a similar premise, i hope to
    be pardoned by the indulgent Reader for all the errors in which i might
    have involuntarily incurred.

    G. P."

In the introductory portion, giving a general account of the building, "G.
P." says:

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Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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