LETTER IX.

Church of St. Justina.--Tombs of remote antiquity.--Ridiculous attitudes of rheumatic devotees.--Turini’s music.--Another excursion to Fiesso.--Journey to the Euganean hills.--Newly discovered ruins.--High Mass in the great Church of Saint Anthony.--A thunder-storm.--Palladio’s Theatre at Vicenza.--Verona.--An aërial chamber.--Striking prospect from it.--The amphitheatre.--Its interior.--Leave Verona.--Country between that town and Mantua.--German soldiers.--Remains of the palace of the Gonzagas.--Paintings of Julio Romano.--A ruined garden.--Subterranean apartments. 153