On The Right Hand Side Of The Corsia De' Servi,
Proceeding From The Cathedral, Are The Finest Buildings (Houses Of
Individuals) In Milan, Among Which I Particularly Distinguished A Superb
Palace Built In The Best Grecian Taste With A Colonnaded Portico,
Surmounted By Eight Columns.
Just outside the Porta Orientale is the
Corso, with a fine spacious road with Allees on each side lined with
trees.
The Corso forms the evening drive and promenade a cheval of the
beau monde. I have seen nowhere, except in Hyde Park, such a brilliant
show of equipages as on the Corso of Milan. I observe that the women
display a great luxe de parure at this promenade.
The women here appear to me in general handsome, and report says not at all
cruel. They have quite a fureur for dress and ornaments, hi the adapting
of which, however, they have not so much taste as the French women have.
The Milanese women do not understand the simplicite recherchee in their
attire, and are too fond of glaring colours. The Milanese women are accused
of being too fond of wine, and a calculation has been made that two bottles
per diem are drank by each female in Milan; but, supposing this
calculation were true, let not the English be startled, for the wine of
this, country is exceedingly light, lighter indeed than the weakest
Burgundy wine; indeed, I conceive that two bottles of Lombard wine are
scarce equivalent in strength to four wine glasses of Port wine.
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