j j f T K A Y E L. $ j n O R E E C E.
,ing between the Ruffians a,nd the Pqr^e, and the Georgians con-
‘tepdipg with fucqefs agSHnfi the Tufkifh armies By fejQfi arts
W tfepfe are the wretched Greeks preferved from defpondpqcy,
roufed tp expectation, and confided beneath the yoke of bondage.
The traveljer, who is verfed in antiquity, may be agreeably and
ufefully employed in ftudying the people o f Athens-
C R A P . XXIX.
We continue of Athens---. Account o f l^mbardi-^-fke. anhbijkcf
forced to jfy - - -D ifrefs frqm went gf_ com— Jntpigms o f £omr
fyardi.' '
O U R flay at Athens was prolonged by unforefeen pt/A'acIes,-
which were to be Turmpunted, as they arofe, before quj bufifeefs
cöuid be cbmpleted. Some fiujldings required ladders, fo lope
and ftrghg, it was difficult to procure fit
workman capable o f making them. Several figures cpüld fee
drawn only from a'particular terrace or the window o f ' a feovtfe*
afid ’afrtffiurlifh or rapaqiqus owner was fatisfied. "‘rfeie
Ramadan or Lent o f the Turks, and the'Bairam Oï holidaS-
interfered': We encountered many a vexatious delay, and opr
nffidence became irkfome as well from the qpnti^plf ^pfbfefn-
fion è f Tdmefihtfeward accidénf or ënfaaring ‘trea^^y,'' as%“£mm
our deteftatidn of Éómbardi, whp haunted ourhoufë^ancL by
hiSMteful prëfëh'ce and by difcouirfe, which wa,S impure, indelicate,
and impious in the highpft degree, polluted' and
poifoned every enjoyment.
^Lombardi was faid to have been a prieft, and to have rob-
Bed the altars“ of the church. He had feed from fell country, it
was'COfVaih, to avoid the punifhment of fome crime o f a mo|
atfociduS nature: He was acquainted with tfee Latin language,
nad
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had fomê kriówlége of fnedicine, and had lived fwith federal
Baffiâs and |reat Türkiffi officers'as théir phyfeçian. He^had
fignifizod his courage and conduct in dangerous expeditions
a|àittft hànditti and infurgents; which fervipes had^been re-
% I rdW with mohey/hodes, and garments lined with Iktns.
He pofleffed ' uncommon1 âdërels, eloquence, ' profligacy; hypo-
ofily. He had been a pretended profelyte^fo the Greek eómtnü-
' nion,‘ and had written a book in Italiah, entitled '**■ ‘Truth the
w JndgeT B y ( B P Êmmmi, a Jejhit and gggfjgf f& thrtrve
“ .which^ a tranflation into the vulgar
Greek, with ludkreas outs, was printed at Johannina, a cilw of
Epirus, and difperfed over Turkey. The malignancy o f this
Vampoon on bhriftianity was fo concealed, that for fome, time ,
the author was reputed a champion for the pure faith of the
Greeks. He had alfo compofed a lortg and bitter inventive
againft an arçhbhhop qf Larifla in Theffaly. He had 'beenrim-
-prifonçd, at Athens, and had obtained his releafe with
by tears, intreaties, and the interpofition of the Turks. This
uiige, fepwevar defpryed, had made him outrageons, and revenge
was his higheft gratification. He had employed the molfe Hu-
jufiifiable'means to compafs the downfall, .àf^pvqmffeg |qa^is,
o f his principal enemies. He was recently returned from Gon-
ftantinopie, and boafted, that, by his intrigues there, he had
levelled fome proud ardions .at Athens, t*hq had lately hoified
flags as confabs-to European powers j a privilege frqrn wfereh the
fubje&s of the Porte were excluded by an edkt, which had feepp
enforced during our refidence at Smyrna. He talked unconcernr
edlÿ of the death of his elder and favourite fofi, whom he had takep
with him, ‘and ferit home in a veflel, in which the plague afterwards
appeared. The young man fickened in the .Pn^us> :ànd
was removed to a monaftery ; and a another paflengérdying of h ,
fuddenly was thrown into a well by the ffiore, with a l^rge
ilbne to cover the body. Before Our departure^. be feoriq^hy
repudiated his wife, Who was an Athenian j and renounced her
children, a fan and two daughters, who refufed to relinquiffi
.Chriffiiâhitÿf The ©tended at his Want o f natural
qp 2 affedtion*