Mary Berry in St Peter's, Rome - 18 April, 1784
from Diary of Mary Berry, 18 April 1784, page 110:
In the evening, an illumination of St. Peter’s. We went between seven and eight o'clock to the Piazza, where there was a crowd of people: it was then illuminated with lanthorns, which cast a dim steady light on every part of it; they even contrive to place them in capitals of Corinthian pillars; and when every part is thus surrounded by a line of fire, they say it looks almost like a traced drawing. About nine, upon the signal of a bell tolling, in two minutes’ time (by all our watches), the church, from the top of the cross to the end of the colonnade, was in … more >>
Mary Berry, Diary of Mary Berry, 18 April 1784. In Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852, volume 1 (London, 1865), p. 110. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1541509236020 accessed: 8 October, 2024
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Date/Time | 18 April, 1784 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |