[Illustration: THE GATEWAY OF THE MONASTERY CLOSE, ROCHESTER] That Strood stood on the ancient way its name assures us, since it is but another form of Street or Strada, as they say in Italy.

The author, says Langbaine, has imbellished this Play with several fancies from other Writers, which he has appositely brought in, as the Story of the Contention between the Musician and the Nightingale, described in Strada's academical Prolusions, Lib. ii.

Il suo caduto ferro instanto fuore Portò del bosco impetuoso vento, Sicchè vinto partissi; e in sulla strada Ritrovò poscia, e ripigliò la spada.

In Milan a street is called vico and in Turin, contrada; in Florence strada and in Rome, I understand, via.

We then filed along the Strada Felice till we arrived at the church of Santa Maria maggiore, a superb edifice, the third church in Rome in celebrity, and the second in magnificence.

We entered Naples at one o'clock, drove thro' the strada di Toledo and from thence to the largo di Medina where we put up at the inn called the Aquila nera.

The Largo di Medina is situated close to the Mole and light house and is not far from the Largo del Palazzo where the Royal Palace stands, nor from the Strada di Toledo, which is the most bustling part of the town.

Here and in the Strada di Toledo the noise made by the vendors of vegetables, fruit, lemonade, iced water and water-melons, who on holding out their wares to view, scream out "O che bella cosa!"the noise and bustle of the cooks' shops in the open air and the cries of "Lavora!" made by the drivers of calessini (sort of carriage) makes such a deafening tintamarre that you can scarcely hear the voice of your companion who walks by your side.

The principal street at Naples is the Strada di Toledo.

There are two excellent restaurants at Naples, one in the Largo del Palazzo, nearly opposite the Royal Palace, called the Villa di Napoli; the other not far from it in the Strada di Toledo, called La Corona di Ferro.

He rises about two p.m., takes his chocolate, saunters about in the Strada di Toledo or in the Largo del Palazzo for an hour or two, then takes a promenade à cheval on the Chiaia; dines between six and seven; goes to the Opera where he remains till eleven or half-past eleven; he then saunters about in the different Cafés for an hour or two; and then repairs to the gaming table at the Ridotto, which he does not quit till broad daylight.

There is, however, a good cabinet littéraire and library in the Strada di San Giacomo, where various French and Italian newspapers may be read.

One day I went to visit the Museum or Studii, as it is called, which is situated at the extremity of the Strada di Toledo on the land side.

I put up at No 1 Largo St Anna di Palazzo, near the Strada di Toledo, at the house of one Berlier, who had been a domestic of poor Murat's.

There are three principal streets in Genoa, viz., Strada Nuova, Balbi, and Nuovissima.

A sailor man came out of the marine headquarters at the turning of the Strada dei Giganti, bending his flat cap against the rain and burying his ears in the blue linen collar of his shirt, which was turned back over his thick jacket.

The present church of S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Strada Giulia is the work of Giacomo della Porta, with a façade by Alessandro Galilei.

The truth is, that Strada, who had access to no other manuscripts than those in possession of the Farnese family, never saw the "Samanca papers"; and Robertson, far from following Strada exclusively, relied much more on the authority of Sandoval and other Spanish writers.

The elevation is formed more upon the models of modern domestic architecture than of ancient public buildings, and resembles, in its general appearance, one of the palazzi in the Strada Balbi at Genoa, in the Corso at Rome, or in the Toledo at Naples.

"The wars of Flanders, written in Latin by Famianus Strada, is a book of some note.

"I single Strada out among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus.

[Strada, in one of his Prolusions, ] gives an Account of a chimerical Correspondence between two Friends by the Help of a certain Loadstone, which had such Virtue in it, that if it touched two several Needles, when one of the Needles so touched [began ], to move, the other, tho at never so great a Distance, moved at the same Time, and in the same Manner.

[Footnote 2: [In one of Strada's Prolusions he] Lib. II.

[Footnote 1: Translated from the Latin in Strada's Prolusions.

Her likeness of Jacopo Strada, the antiquarian, was considered a worthy gift for the Emperor Maximilian, and a portrait of Marietta was hung in the chamber of his Majesty.