There are ten paoli to a scudo Romano
and ten bafocchi to a paolo, The bafocco is a copper coin.
ROME, 12th Sept.
A great number of Germans dine at the table d'hote of Franz's hotel.
Among them I distinguished one day a very intelligent Bavarian Jew. I
proposed to him a walk to the Coliseum the following morning, as
independent of the benefit I derived from his conversation I was curious to
see whether it was true or not that the Jews always avoided walking under
the Arch of Titus, which was erected in commemoration of the capture of
Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus, in the reign of Vespasian. On stepping
out of the Hotel Allemand, the first thing that met my eye was the
identical beggar described by Kotzebue in his travels in Italy, and he
gives the very same answer now as then to those who give him nothing, viz.,
Pazienza.
We crossed the Piazza di Spagna, ascended the superb flight of steps of
the Trinita de' Monti, where there is a French church called the Church
of St Louis: near it is the Villa Medici, which is the seat of the French
Academy of the fine arts at Rome. We then filed along the Strada Felice
till we arrived at the church of Santa Maria maggiore, a superb edifice,
the third church in Rome in celebrity, and the second in magnificence. An
immense Egyptian Obelisk stands before it.
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