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3. The Nunnery of Corpus Christi. Its of S. Clare's Order, and famous for the body of Beata Catherina di Bologna a most holy Nun of this Order and Convent. I saw her body sitting straight up in a chair, in her Religious habit: She holds her Rules in her right hand; and we see her face and feet plainly, but those black and dried up.

4. From hence I went on to the Town Gate, a little out of which gate lies a fair Street where they make the Corso of Coaches in Summer Evenings.

5. Turning from hence on the left hand, I went to S. Michael in Bosco a Stately Monastery of Olivetan Fathers, standing upon a high Hill. From this Hill I had a perfect view of Bologna under me, and of all the Countrey about it; which being level and strowed with a world of white Houses and Villas, looked like a Sea loaden with Ships under sail. Entring into this Monastery, I saw the Oval Court painted by several Prime Masters, of