- Performer Name:
- Performance Venue:
- Lisbon
- Performance Date:
- Author:
- [Beckford, William]
- Date Written:
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal
- Article Title:
- Portugal
- Page Numbers:
- 2:41-2
- Additional Info:
- 2 vols. Quotation is from "Portugal" Letter 9.
- Publisher:
- Bentley
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1834
Text:
[41] [On a motley party accompanying a Marquis to the Marialva Palace]: Close at his heels stalked a savage-looking [42] monk, as tall as Sampson, and two Capuchin friars, heavily laden, but with what sort of provision I am ignorant; next came a very slim and sallow-faced apothecary, in deep sables, completely answering in gait and costume the figure one fancies to one's self of Senhor Apuntador, in Gil Blas, followed by a half-crazed improvisatore, spouting verses at us as he passed under the balustrades against which we were leaning.
Notes:
- Collected by:
- AE