This excellent man, whose duty was only to give me the sum of sixty ducats, insisted, after perusing the bishop's letter, upon receiving me in his house, because he wished me to make the acquaintance of his son, who was a poet like myself.

The bishop had represented my poetry as sublime.

After the usual ceremonies, I accepted his kind invitation, my trunk was sent for, and I was a guest in the house of M.Gennaro Polo..