Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… served with coffee, lemonade, and iced confections of various kinds; but this custom is not universal. In short, at a conversatione, you have an opportunity of seeing a number of well-dressed people, you speak [385] a few words to those … assemblies; only it may be necessary, to prevent mistakes, to add, that a conversazione is a place where there is no conversation. They break up about nine o’clock, all but a small select company, who are invited to supper. But the … taste. We generally pass two or three hours every evening at the conversazionis..." … Grand Tour … Italy … Assemblies … Conversation … Diplomacy … John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. …
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