Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… of the ‘Politer Part of Great Britain’, narrates the famous Neapolitan soprano, Cavalier Nicolino Grimaldi, playing the role of the protagonist in the opera of Hydaspes , thrown naked into an amphitheatre to be devoured by a …
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