Ghetto/Ghetti, Staff, Delft (1714?)

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A NEW VOYAGE TO ITALY:
WITH CURIOUS OBSERVATIONS ON SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES, AS GERMANY,
SWITZERLAND, SAVOY, GENEVA, FLANDERS, AND HOLLAND
in four volumes
(By Maxmilien Misson, although that name is not on the title page--ed.)
London: R. Bonwicke
1714

   This is another four volume monster, and I didn't finish it.  It was
written originally in Italian.
   OED has "1695 tr. Misson's Voy. to Italy" for all of four citations.  Yes,
that's right.  Four thick volumes.  Four cites.
   I was looking carefully for "ice cream," but I didn't find much of any
food citations yet

VOLUME ONE, PART ONE
Pg. 3:  ..._Delft_ Tiles...
(OED has 1714 for "Delft"--ed.)

Pg. 78:  The Town-House is a great _Gothick_ Building.
(OED has 1641, but with a different spelling--ed.)

Pg. 115:  If a traveller demand a Cup of Wine as he goes by, they bring him a
large Jack, enough to make ten Men drunk.
(Jack?--ed.)

Pg. 159:  ...Cheese of Goat-Milk, with some fish, is the principal Diet of
these poor People.

Pg. 225:  There are about eight hundred _Jews_ in the City (Padua--ed.),
according to their own computation.  They have three Synagogues.  The
_Ghetto_ has three Doors, and over the principal Door there is an Inscription
which begins thus, _Ne Populo coelestis Regni Haeredi usus cum exhaerede
esset_, &c.

Pg. 225:  I went lately into  the Tennis-Court...

Pg. 284:  ...a Folding Chair.*
*This Chair hath two Arms, and no Back.
(OED has 1677, also from Venice--ed.)

Pg. 300:  Formerly the glass call'd _Venice-Crystal_, was the finest in
_Europe_; but at present it does not merit that title.
("Venice crystal" is not in OED?--ed.)

Pg. 311:  But all that I can say on this subject, is that there are Seven of
'em enclos'd in two* _Ghetti_**...
*The Old and the New.
**So the _Italians_ call those Quarters or Wards of the Cities, where the
Jews are shut in every Night.
(This is dated Venice, April 16, 1688.  Who can possibly miss a "ghetti" with
an asterisk like this??--ed.)

Pg. 324:  The Figs of _Pesaro_ are famous all over _Italy_.

Pg. 325:  ...those little Fishes which they call in this country
_Cavalletto_; in _France_ some call it _Cheval Marin_, or the Sea-Horse; and
others the _Little-Dragon_.

Pg. 326:  They boast of the Earth-Nuts or _Truffs_ of _Fano_...

Pg. 329:  The ordinary citizens Wives and Daughters wear a kind of _Toilet_
on their Heads, with a long Fringe which covers their Faces, and drives away
the Flies like Horse-trappings.

VOLUME ONE, PART TWO (Numbers continue--ed.)
Pg. 382:  They gave us for Supper Cheese with the Milk of Buffles...

Pg. 475:  That Part of the City (Venice--ed.) which is allotted to them is
call'd _il Ghetto_, or the _Jewry_.
(Ah!  Ghetto=Jewry!  It doesn't mean "foundry," where the Venice Ghetto
started in 1516?--ed.)

Pg. 480:  ..._Ridotti_.*
*The Gaming House.

Pg. 533:  The usual Wages for such _Staffieri_, as they are call'd at _Rome_,
is two and a half or three _Jilio's_ by the Day for Board-wages: Our Cook was
but at the same Rate.
(OED has "staff" as in "office staff" from 1781.  OED cites a Teut. origin
for the word and Italian is not mentioned--ed.)