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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Venetian Years: A Cleric in Naples by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Venetian Years: A Cleric in Naples The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt 1725-1798 Author: Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Release Date: October 30, 2006 [EBook #2952] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VENETIAN YEARS: A CLERIC IN NAPLES *** Produced by David Widger MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 VENETIAN YEARS, Volume 1b--A CLERIC IN NAPLES THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. A CLERIC IN NAPLES CHAPTER VIII My Misfortunes in Chiozza--Father Stephano--The Lazzaretto at Ancona--The Greek Slave--My Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Loretto--I Go to Rome on Foot, and From Rome to Naples to Meet the Bishop--I Cannot Join Him--Good Luck Offers Me the Means of Reaching Martorano, Which Place I Very Quickly Leave to Return to Naples The retinue of the ambassador, which was styled "grand," appeared to me very small. It was composed of a Milanese steward, named Carcinelli, of a priest who fulfilled the duties of secretary because he could not write, of an old woman acting as housekeeper, of a man cook with his ugly wife, and eight or ten servants. We reached Chiozza about noon. Immediately after landing, I politely asked the steward where I should put up, and his answer was: "Wherever you please, provided you let this man know where it is, so that he can give you notice when the peotta is ready to sail. My duty," he added, "is to leave you at the lazzaretto of Ancona free of expense from the moment we leave this place. Until then enjoy yourself as well as you can." The man to whom I was to give my address was the captain of the peotta. I asked him to recommend me a lodging. "You can come to my house," he said, "if you have no objection to share a large bed with the cook, whose wife remains on board." Unable to devise any better plan, I accepted the offer, and a sailor, carrying my trunk, accompanied me to the dwelling of the honest capt
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