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THE

ITALIAN,

OR THE

CONFESSIONAL of the BLACK PENITENTS.

About the year 1764, some English travellers in Italy, during one of their excursions in the envi­rons of Naples, happened to stop before the portico of the Santa Maria del Pianto, a church belonging to a very ancient convent of the order of the Black Penitents. The magnificence of this portico, though impaired by time, excited so much admiration, that the travellers were curious to survey the structure to which it belonged, and with this intention they as­cended the marble steps that led to it.

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