,"V' V
 
 THE 
 
 ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 An Account of the Lives and Works 
 
 O F T H E 
 Moft VALUABLE AUTHORS of ITALY. 
 
 With a PREFACE, 
 
 EXHIBITING 
 
 The Changes of the Tuscan Language, from 
 the barbarous Ages to the prefent Time. 
 
 By GIUSEPPE BARETTI. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand* 
 
 MDCCLVII.
 
 [] 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. 
 
 TH E beginning of every language is necef- 
 farily obfcure ; all fpeech is oral before it is 
 written, and rude before it is polifhed. Words 
 not committed to writing are loft with the breath 
 that formed them ; and the firft rude effays are 
 defpifed and neglected when a ftyle nearer to per- 
 fection is once attained. It is therefore impotfible 
 to fix the time at which one language ceafed and 
 another begun, or to mark exactly the gradations 
 by which the change proceeded : it is at leaft im- 
 pofllble to a native of Italy to fay when the prefent 
 language had its firft formation, amidft the con- 
 fufion of war, and the incurlions of barbarians, who 
 for a time fufpended all attention to lirerature, and 
 left behind them no other memorials but mifchief 
 and defolation. 
 
 a But 
 
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 ii A HISTORY of the 
 
 But, as far as I am able, I will endeavour to fa- 
 tisfy the curiofity of an Englifli reader, by tracing 
 the tongue of Italy from its remoteft fource, and 
 coming gradually down to the prefent time , give 
 as clear and faithful an idea of its ftate, as lies in 
 my power to give. 
 
 It appears to me, that the Italians of the eleventh 
 century had no language fit to write in, or thought 
 themfelves that they had not, becaufe thofe of their 
 compofitions that have efcaped the ravages of 
 time, are either in corrupt Latin, coarfe Sicilian, 
 or inelegant Provencial. The monks and clergy- 
 men, who from time out of memory not only 
 performed their facred duties in Latin among 
 themfelves, but preached alfo in the fame tongue to 
 the people, generally wrote their verfes, whatever 
 they were, in Latin: the Sicilian metres were cul- 
 tivated only by the fouthernnioflltalians-, and,from 
 Tufcany to the Alp?, the Provencial dialect was 
 the language of the mufes. 
 
 A quick fuccefTion of revolutions in the king- 
 doms of Naples and Sicily withdrawing the ftudi- 
 ous from their Apollinean employments, foon put 
 an end to a language that was yet far from having 
 reached its point of perfection ; and the bar of the 
 Alps obftru&ing the courfe of that fpoken by the 
 mailers of Provence, left the inhabitants of Italy 
 
 to
 
 ITALIAN TO NGUE. iii 
 
 to improve their natural flock of words, and look 
 out for eafier means of conveying their ideas in 
 writing to their countrymen, now reduced to make 
 the beft ufe they could of an uncouth cant that 
 was neither Gothick nor Latin, but a barbarous 
 mixture of many modern tongues, incorporared in- 
 to the adulterated relicks of that noble language 
 that was fpoken a thoufand years before by their 
 glorious predeccfTors. 
 
 This language or cant, then called Volgare, to 
 diftinguifh it from the Latin, Sicilian, and Pro- 
 vencia! that had by intervals prevailed in the writ- 
 ings of the Italians, began in the twelfth century 
 to make its appearance in written profe and poe. 
 try : but as it was itfelf differently pronounced in 
 different places, and was in a manner fubdivided 
 into as many dialects as there arediftrictsin ItaJy, 
 and as no ftandard of fpeech was yet formed to 
 which all could refer, every one was left t his 
 own direction, and every one generally wrore this 
 Volgare, as it was fpoken in the place of his nati- 
 vity. 
 
 Had the art of printing made its appearance it 
 that period, what a quantity of writing would then 
 have got out of obfcur'rty to entertain or to puzzle 
 fucceeding ftudents ! The teeth of time and the fire 
 of war have corroded and burnt the greateft part 
 of the barbarous parchments of that age , yet it is 
 fcarcely to be conceived what huge heaps of them 
 
 a 2 are
 
 iv A HISTORY of the 
 
 are (till preferved in our numerous libraries and 
 archives. The Tufcans, in particular, diftin- 
 guifhed themfelves much for their addiction to 
 fcribbling, and the names of Perotto Zanobi, Frate 
 Cercuccio, Loffo Banaguida, Pippo Fronda, Meo da 
 MajattO) Lilio Lelli, Cene delta Chitarra, Folcacchi- 
 ero de* Folcacchieri, Clone Ballione, Lapo Lamberti-, 
 Cucco di Valfreduccio, Lippo Vannuccu and number- 
 lefs more petty poers of different parts of Tufca- 
 ny, are ftill known to the inquirers into the origin 
 of our language. 
 
 The Tufcans, notwithstanding, were then fo far 
 from pretending to the primacy in language, that, 
 even in the year 1299, cmzRuJligielo of Pifa wrote 
 in the Venetian dialed the travels of Marco Polo 9 
 as they were dictated to him in the prifons of Ge- 
 noa by that famous traveller ; and, even fome 
 years after, Petrarch, a Roman author, wrote the 
 life of the renowned Cola di Rienzo, in the lan- 
 guage that he had learnt from his nurfe. The life 
 of Cola di Rienzo I cannot find, therefore fhall on- 
 ly give a fhort fpecimen of Marco Polo's lan- 
 
 Qui comenza il prologo del libro chiamado, de 
 la iftinzione del mondo. 
 
 Vui fignori imperadori duchi marchefi chonti e 
 kavalieri, e tuta zente quale volete intender e cho- 
 
 noffer
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, v> 
 
 nofler le diver fe gienerazione de li homeni edel 
 mondo, lezete quefto libro, in lo qual troverete 
 de' grandiflimi miracholi e diverfita dell' Armenia 
 mazore, de Perfia, e de Tartaria, e de molt* altre 
 Provinzie fecondo chomo nara : e avertamente ve 
 chontera chomo mifier Marco Polo zitadin de Ve- 
 nexia quelle tute chofe con li fuo ochi et orechie 
 vete et aldi da homeni degni di fede. Si che in 
 quefto quele chofife chel duo vete meterem chomo 
 choffe vedude et quele che lui aldi chomo choffe 
 aldide, adcio chel noftro libro fia chonfonante ad 
 zafchuno che aldira hover lezera, fiche ognuno li 
 dara fede , et fapie che dal tempo che Dio chreo 
 Adam et Eva, qual fo el primo homo al mondo 
 fine al prefente, non fo mai algun Chriftian, Sa- 
 raxino, Tartaro, Indian, hover homo de alguna 
 gienarazione, el qual chotanto tempo zerchaffe Je 
 diverfe parte del mondo e vedeffe tante choffe 
 chomo fexe mifier Marcho Po!o predito, onde el 
 dito determino di meter tuto quelo che havea vifto 
 e aldido in fcritura adcioche la zente, che non ha 
 vezudo ne fapudo, per quefto libro pofla faver ; 
 etdicho chel dito Miffier Marcho Polo ftete in 
 quelle diverfe parte et provinzie vintifie ani, et 
 quefto per poter faver quefte tal choffe, le qual fi- 
 ando deflegnudo in charzere da Zenoveffi tute fte 
 choffe feze fchriver per mifier Ruftigielo citadin 
 de Pixa lo qual era ne la dicla prixone con el dito 
 mifier March Polo, et fo fchrito le dice choffe nei 
 a 3 ano
 
 vi A H I S TO R Y of the 
 
 ano del noftro Signor Jefu Chrifto mille duxento 
 e nonanta nuove. 
 
 Nel tempo de Baldoin imperador de Chonftan- 
 tinopoli e de mifie Ponte de Veniexia, el qualle in 
 quel tempo rczva Chonftantinopoli per nome de 
 Ja duchal fignoria di Veniexia nel ano mille dux~ 
 ento zinquanta, mifier Nicholo Polo, el quale fo 
 padre de Marcho, e fier Mafio Polo fuo fradelo 
 chon le lor merchadanzie iera vegnudi da Veni- 
 exia a Chonftantinopoli, ed era nobiliffimi mer- 
 chadanti e omeni de ibtil inzegni, onde li vene in 
 la dita zitade et ftando li alguni ziorni U vene in 
 chuor di voler andar nel mar mazore per difpen- 
 far le lor me rchadantie et eomprar mohi zoieli, et 
 fato che iebe el penfamento fe partirono da Chon- 
 ftantinopoli chon una nave et andar nel mar ma- 
 zore et'in pochi zorni zonffe a Soldaria etdifmon- 
 to de la nave et ftete mold zorni in quela tera, e 
 vezando che in quela non nera alguna chofTa per 
 loro, determind de andar piu avanti et par.tifle de 
 la dita Soldaria et chavalcho molte zornade che 
 lor non trovb choflfa alguna et finalmenre li vene a 
 chapitar a Bracharchan, una zitade la qual fignori- 
 ziva une parte de Tartaii, et in quel tempo iera in 
 una zitade, &c. 
 
 Copks of Marco Polo's manufcript multiplied 
 wih great rapidity, though written in th.it un- 
 couth dialect and manner, and quickly fpread into 
 
 all
 
 ITALIANTONGUE. vh 
 all parts of Italy, and even of France and Ger- 
 many. If the Venetians had had at that time 
 many fuch voluminous and pleafing writers as Po- 
 lo was, they would have had a probable chance 
 of giving their language to the Italians : but they 
 were fo much taken up with their conquefts and 
 commerce in the eaft, that they miffed this ho- 
 nour ; and while Polo was dictating his profe to 
 Rufligielo, Brunetto Latini of Florence writ many 
 things in verfe, that charmed the ears of his con- 
 temporaries ; and collected in ten Capitolos many 
 of the proverbs and fayings of his time, to which 
 he gave the whimfical title of Pataffio. This work 
 obfcured the little fplendor of the petty preced- 
 ing poets of every other Italian province, and had 
 power enough to keep the Italians neutral and un- 
 refolved on the choice of the dialect: that was to be 
 the general ftandard of writing. 
 
 Ricco da Varlungo, Dino Fiorentino^Salvino Dom\ 
 Ugo da Siena, Guido Novello, Farinata degli Uber/i, 
 Lambertuccio Frefcobaldi, Pannuccio dal Bagno, 
 Guitton d* Arezzo, and many more, all living 
 about the year 1250, and all Tufcans, helped 
 to turn the fcale in favour of their country ; 
 and, with their numerous verfes, chronicles, 
 books of devotion, and other performances ad- 
 mirable in thofe times, feemed to confpire with 
 Brunetto Latini to crufb in the cradle all dialects 
 that were not Tufcan, that one or other of 
 a 4 their
 
 viii A HISTORY of the 
 
 their flile might prevail, and become the language 
 
 cf books in our peninfula. 
 
 My paucity of old Italian books hinders me 
 from giving a fpecimen of the profe of thofe 
 times. I mall only tranfcribe three fhort pieces of 
 poetry, the firft from Pannuccio dal Bagno> in the 
 dialecl of Pifa ; the fecond from Guglidmotto da 
 Otranto, who writ in Neapolitan latinis'd ; and 
 the third from Fra GuiUone, who, although born 
 in Arezzo, yet writ in the Florentine, having lived 
 the beft part of his life in Florence. 
 
 This is from Pannuccio. 
 
 Laflb di far piu verfo 
 
 Son, poi vcggio ogn' om manco % 
 
 D' amor far tutto del diritto inverfo j 
 
 Che qual de nom piu franco 
 
 Di lealtate perfo 
 
 Tofto fa fe veder fe po del bianco, 
 
 Che Donna ne converfo 
 
 Non fol cor aggia , fianco 
 
 Di cio penfare, efFare unde ben perfo, 
 
 Sicche vertu non branco, 
 
 Po dire anzi l'abberfo : 
 
 Leal om si 1* a prefo per lo fianco 
 
 Iflealtatee inganno che ognor monta, 
 E lo mondo governa, 
 
 Sicche
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. k 
 
 Sicche 1 a quella lanterna 
 
 Vol gir ogn' omo, e in cio far fi ponta 
 
 Tanto ch' obbriat* anno la fuperna 
 
 Membranza, dove 1* onta 
 
 E '1 bel d' ogn* om fi conta, 
 
 E di ciafcuno il merto in fempiterna. 
 
 This is from Guglielmotto de Otranto, 
 
 O Salve fancta Oftia facrata 
 
 Immaculato Sangue e came pura 
 
 Sum ma Creatura en Dio communicata 
 
 De Virgo nata fanza corruptura. 
 Oltra mefura fufte tormentata, 
 
 Morta lanzata mifia 'n fepultura, 
 
 Da la fumma Natura fufcitata 
 
 Et enalzata fupr' ogn' auta antura. 
 Tu si quell* armatura per cui vencimmo 
 
 L' antico primo perfedo Sarpente 
 
 Percutiente fpirito damnato. 
 Corpo facrato en pane te vedimmo 
 
 E certi fimmo che veraciemente 
 
 Si Crifto Omnipotence e Deo carnato. 
 
 The fpecimen from Fra Guittone is this Ihort 
 fable, which an Englifliman that underftands Ita- 
 lian will think a compofition of yefterday. 
 
 Quando il configlio degli augei fi tenne 
 Di nicifta convenne 
 
 Che
 
 s A HISTORY of the 
 
 Che ciafcun ccmpariiTe a talnovelja; 
 
 E la Cornacchia maliziofa e fella 
 
 Penso mutar gonnella, 
 
 E da molt* altri augei acatto penne, 
 
 Ed adornoffi e nel configlio venne, 
 
 Ma poco fi foflenne. 
 
 Perche pareva fopra gli altri bella 
 
 Alcun domando 1' alcro : chi e quella? 
 
 Sicche finalment' Ella 
 
 Eu conofciuta. Or odi che n 7 avvenne. 
 
 Che tutti gli altri augei le fur dintorno, 
 Sicchs fifiza foggiorno 
 La pehr si, ch'.ella rimafe ignuda ; 
 E 1' un diceva : or vedi bella druda j 
 Dicea 1' akro : ella muda ; 
 E cofi la lafciaro in grande fcorno. 
 
 Similemente adivien tutto giorno 
 D' uomo chcfii fa adorno 
 Di fama o di virtu ch' altri difchiuda j 
 Che fpeffe volte fuda 
 
 Deli' altrui c;Jdo tal che poi s' agghiaccia ; 
 Dunquc beato chi per fe procaccia. 
 
 Forty or fifty years after Brunetto Latini, one of 
 his difciples did more towards the fixing the feat 
 of cur language in the city of Florence than all his 
 predeceflfors together. This was Dante Alig- 
 bieri, whofe poem on hell, purgatory, and para- 
 dife, not only (truck with wonder all his contem- 
 poraries,
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xi 
 
 poraries, but was invariably the admiration of fuc- 
 ceflive ages, and has rather increafed, than dimi- 
 nished that reputation which it got at firft. In 
 his youth Dante chiefly followed the trade of a 
 foldier, and diftinguimed himfelf in many battles 
 for his conduct, perfonal ftrength, and intrepidity 
 He was afterwards admitted to be one of the chief 
 magiftrates of his country, that was then not an in- 
 confiderable commonwealth; but he had too much 
 honefty and Catonian feverity for the vicious time 
 in which he lived; and, having expreffed rather 
 too much contempt for his fellow magiftrates, 
 made fo many enemies amongft them, that, in 
 fpits of his fuperior talents for war and peace, he 
 was banifhed his country, and forced to fly for 
 protection to Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna, 
 who proved a fteady friend to the exiled poet to 
 the laft of his days. 
 
 Dante had writ a multitude of lyric verfes be- 
 fore he left Florence, but it was in Ravenna that 
 he conceived the thought of writing his great 
 poem, of which I chufe to give three fhort fpcci- 
 mens, one from each of the three parts of it. 
 
 From the firft part, intitled Hell. 
 
 CANTO VI. 
 
 Al tornar della mente, che fi chiufe 
 Dinanzi a la pieta de* i due' cognati, 
 Che di triftizia tutto mi confufe 
 
 Nuovi
 
 xii A HISTORY of the 
 
 Nuovi tormenti e nuovi tormentati 
 Mi veggio intorno come ch' i' mi mova, 
 E come ch' i' mi volga e ch' i' mi guati. 
 
 10 fono al terzo cerchio della piova 
 Eterna, maladetta, fredda, e greve : 
 Regola e qualita mai non 1' e nova. 
 
 Grandine groffa, ed acqua tinta, e neve 
 Per I' aer tenebrofo fi riverfa : 
 Pute la terra che quefto riceVe. 
 
 Cerbero, Fiera crudele e diverfa 
 Con tre gole caninamente latra 
 Sovra la gente che quivi e fommerfa. 
 
 Gli occhi ha vermigli e la barba unta ed atra, 
 E'l ventre largo ed unghiate le mani : 
 Graffia li Spirti, o li fquoja, o li lquatra. 
 
 Urlar li fa la pioggia come cani : 
 Dell* un de' lati fanno all' altro fchermo : 
 Volgonfi fpefib i miferi profani. 
 
 Quando fi fcofle Cerbero il gran Vermo 
 La bocca aperfe e moftrocci le zanne : 
 Non avea membro che teneffe fermo. 
 
 11 Duca mio diftefele fue fpanne, 
 Prefe la terra, e con piene le pugna 
 La gitto dentro alle bramofe canne. 
 
 Qual e quel cane che abbajando agugna, 
 E fi racqueta poi che '1 pafto morde, 
 Che folo a divorarlo intende e pugna ; 
 
 Cotai fi fecer quelle facce lorde 
 De !o Dimonio Cerbero che introna 
 L' anime si ch* effer vorrebber forde. 
 
 From
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xiii 
 
 From the fee ond part, intitled Purgatory. 
 CANTO VIII. 
 
 Era gia l* orache volge '1 ditto 
 A i Navicanti, e intenerifce il core 
 Lo di che han detto a detto a i dolci Amici addio j 
 
 E che lo novo Peregrin d' amore 
 Punge, fe ode fquilla di lontano 
 Che paja '1 giorno pianger che fi more, 
 
 Quand* io incominciai a render vano 
 L' udire, ed a mirar una dell* Alme 
 Surta, che d* afcoltar chiedea con mano. 
 
 Ella giunfe e levo ambe le palme 
 Ficcando gli occhi verfo 1' Orienre. 
 Come dicefle a Dio, d' altro non calmeV 
 
 Te lucis ante si devotamence 
 Gli ufcidi boccacon si dolci note, 
 Che fece me a me ufcir di mente. 
 
 E 1' altre poi lietamente e devote 
 Seguitar Lei per tutto Y Inno intero 
 Avendo gli occhi alle fupeme rote: 
 
 From
 
 *hr A HISTORY of the 
 
 From the third part, intitled Paradise.' 
 CANTO XXXIII. 
 
 Vergine Madre, Frgliadel tuo Figlio, 
 Umile ed alta piu che Creatura, 
 Termine fiflb d* cterno configlio ; 
 
 Tu fe' colei, che 1' umana Natura 
 Nobilitafti si, che 'i sd fattore 
 Non fi fdegno di farfi fua Fattura. 
 
 Nel venfe tuo fi raccefe 1' amore, 
 Per lo cui caldo nell' eterna pace 
 Cosi e germinato quefto fiore. 
 
 Qui fe* a noi meridiana face 
 Di caritate ; e giufo intra' Mortali 
 Sei di fperanza fontana vivace. 
 
 Donna fe' tanto grandee tantovali, 
 Che qual vuol graziae da te non ricorrc 
 Su' difianza vuol volar fenz' ali. 
 
 La tua benignita non pur foccorre 
 A chi dimanda, ma moke fiate 
 Liberamente al dimandar precorre. 
 
 In te mifericordia, in tepietare, 
 In te magnificenzia, in te s' aduna 
 Quantunque in Creatura e di bontate. 
 
 Or Quefti che dall'infima iacuna 
 Dell' Univerfo infin qui ha vedute 
 Le v'ue fpiritali ad una ad una ad una, 
 
 Supp'.ica a te per grazia di virtute 
 Tanto, che pofia con g!i occhi levari] 
 Piu alto verfo 1' ultima falute. 
 
 i Thefe
 
 ITALIAN TONGUfc. S* 
 
 Thefe three fpecimens, as well as the greatefl 
 part of Dante's work, are as weliunderftood now as 
 they were four hundred and fifty years ago : yet 
 one meets here and there not only with obfolete 
 words, but with verfes quite unintelligible : at 
 leaft many of them are fo to me. 
 
 I have faid above, that, in my opinion, theTuf* 
 cans in general, and the Florentines in particular* 
 did not look early on their dialect as the befl of 
 Italy. This opinion of mine is confirmed by this 
 poem, in which Dante made ufe of a multitude of 
 Lombard, Neapolitan, andVenetian words, fothat 
 is feems he had a mind to imitate the Grecian 
 poets who, when occafion required, did notfcruple 
 to mix their different dialects into one, which ha's 
 hot been the practice of Petrarca, Boccaccio, Pul- 
 ci, and the others that came after him, as I mail 
 fay in its place. 
 
 I mud not omit to obferve, that the corrupt 
 Latin of the tenth and eleventh century was not 
 quite expelled from Italy in Dante's time. Some 
 of the ftudious dill made fome ufe of it, efpecially 
 in writing ; and our poet, that he might pleafe 
 every c'afs of men, not only dropt in his perfor- 
 mance a great quantity of Latin words, but had 
 whole lines, and even ternaries quite Latin inter- 
 
 fperfed
 
 xvi A HISTORY of the 
 
 fperfed in it * ; and amongft his lyric compofi- 
 tions, he has one of thofe that we call Canzoni y 
 which is in three languages, that is, Provencial, 
 Latin, and Florentine. This is a proof that the 
 two languages ftill continued to be cultivated in 
 Italy. 
 
 I faid that this poem charmed his contempo- 
 raries, and holds ftill as high a rank in the efteem 
 of the Italians as any other production of poetical 
 imagination : yet if a foreign critick mould hap- 
 pen to perufe it, let me tell him, that he muft not 
 weigh a poem written fo early in the fcales of mo- 
 dern criticifm, but make allowance amongft other 
 things, for fome ftrange mixtures of Pagan and 
 Chriftian notions, and confider that our poet was 
 not only a mortal man, like any other, and confe- 
 quently fubjedt to err j but that he writ before any 
 body dreamt of thofe rules that have forced fubfe- 
 quent geniuffcs to confine even their mad flights 
 within the boundaries of method, and the circum- 
 fcriptions of reafon. 
 
 But the fuperior fplendor of this poet did notab- 
 forb intirely the light of fome other of his con- 
 temporaries. The lovers of antient Italian poetry 
 andprofe flill revere the names of CafiruccioCafira- 
 cani y (prince of Lucca, whofe life was written by 
 
 * Dante had begun his poem in Latin, but changed after- 
 wards his fchcme, and wrote it in Italian. In/era regna canam 
 was the beginning of his firft line. 
 
 Macchi-
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xvii 
 
 MacchiaveUi) Farinata degli Uberli, Bindo Donatio 
 Pieracch Tebaldi, Cecco Angiolieri^ Gianni Alfani, 
 Mucio piacente, Benuccio Salimbeni, Lapo SaUarelli y 
 Bonagiunta Urbiciani, Dante da Majano, Guido Ca~ 
 valcanti, and many other Tufcans, whofe writings 
 though for the greareft part a little rude and in- 
 digefted, were looked upon as the beft examples of 
 pure language by thofe learned and judicious com- 
 pilers of our dictionary, known in the literary 
 repub!ick under the name of academicians della 
 Crufca. 
 
 Two more fpecimens, one from Dante da Ma- 
 jano, the other from Guido Cavakanti, (a difciple 
 as well as Dante Aligbieri, of Brunstto Latini) will 
 enable the reader to judge of thole large ftrides that 
 our language took at that period towards perfec- 
 tion. This fpecimen from Dante da Majano is 
 in the dialed that was fpoken in that part of Tyf- 
 cany now denominated Valdarno. 
 
 Com piu diletto di voi, Donna, prendo, 
 E piu vi tegnoed aggioa vollia mia, 
 Piu par ch' eo n' aggia e prenda gelofia, 
 E piu di voi voler la vollia accendo. 
 
 Or eo da voi m' a'lungo, e vo partendo ; 
 E ..crmento penfando notte e dia 
 Com' eo rttornt a voftra fegnofia, 
 E 'n gelofia per un cento mi ftendo. 
 
 t> Cosi
 
 xviii A HISTORY of the 
 
 Cosi m* ha di voi, Donna, Amor legato 
 Che con voi ftando fon tanto temente 
 Di perder voi che non aggio pofianza. 
 
 E s' eo non fon con voi, dolce mia Amanza, 
 Son peggio che di morte fofferente : 
 Cotale e per voi, bella, lo mio ftato. 
 
 This fpecimen from Cavalcanti is in the old dia- 
 led of Florence. 
 
 Per gli occhi fiere un fpirito fottile 
 
 Che fa in la mente fpirito deftare 
 
 Dal qual fi move fpirito d* amare 
 
 Che ogn' altro fpiritel fi fa gentile. 
 Sentir non puo di lui fpirito vile, 
 
 Di cotanta virtu fpirito appare: 
 
 Queflo e lo fpiritel che fa tremare, 
 
 Lo fpiritel che fa la Donna umile. 
 E poi da quedo fpirito fi move 
 
 Un' ahro dolce fpirito foave 
 
 Che fiegue un fpiritello di mercede, 
 .0 quale fpiritel fpiriti piove, 
 
 Ch' ha di ciafcuno fpirito la chiave 
 
 Per forza d' uno fpirito che '1 vede. 
 
 The Florentine dialed now began to rife apace 
 in the eftimation of the Italians, and tower above 
 the others of Tufcany. The mod fagacious fol- 
 lowers of themufes began to prefer it to any other ; 
 as did Agalone Drufi of Pifa, Piero Malavolti of 
 Cortona, Michele Pucci of Arezzo, Giovanni Lam- 
 
 krtacci
 
 ITALIANTONGUE. xix 
 lertacci of Oltrarno, and a great many more. I 
 will only fclect a fpecimen from Cino of Piftoja, 
 the celebrated mafter of Bartolo the civilian and 
 Petrarch the poer, whofe elegant compofitions 
 have efcaped oblivion, thanks to a beautiful lady 
 of thofe times called Ricciarda de' Selvaggi, that 
 was much loved and praifed by Cino in his verfes. 
 
 This is the fpecimen. 
 
 Mille dubbi in un di, mille querele 
 Al Tribunal de 1' aka Imperatrice 
 Amor contra me forma irato, edice 
 Giudica chi di noi fia piu fedele. 
 
 Quefti folo per me fpiega le vele 
 Di fama al mondo, ove faria infelice; 
 Anzi d* ogni mio mal lei la radice, 
 Dico, e provai gia di tuo dolce il fele. 
 
 Ed egli : ahi falfo fcrvo fuggitivo, 
 E' quefto il merto che mi rendi, ingrato, 
 Dandoti una, a cui 'n terra egual non era ? 
 
 Che val, feguo, fe tofto me n* hai privo ? 
 Io, no, rifponde : ed ella a si gran piato 
 Convien piu tempo a dar fentenza vera. 
 
 So far I have mown our fpeech coming out of 
 the poor remains of the Latin tongue, like an un- 
 hippy woman that efcapes from under the ruins of 
 a tremendous earthquake, in a tattered gown, 
 f:ch as chance ha-? thrown on her back: but her 
 beauty, though concealed in rags, is foon perceived, 
 b 2 and
 
 kk A HISTORY cf the' 
 
 and every one drives to give her fomething, that 
 (he may drefs and adorn herfelf completely. Thus 
 Bruveito Lalini and Guittone d* Arezzo had given 
 our language a rolerable degree of grammar,.D<z#/ 
 Alighieri a forcible and vigorous turn, and Cino 
 of Piitoja had laboured much to make itfweet and 
 .harmonious. 
 
 But the man to whom the Italians have the 
 grcateft obligation for their fine language, was 
 without doubr, Francefco Petrarca, ion of a Flo- 
 rence notary, who having been bammed his na- 
 tive place, fled for refuge to Arezzo with bis wife, 
 who was there brought to bed of our poet in the 
 year 1304. 
 
 It is to be fuppofed that the youth was very in- 
 genious, and very ftudious, becaufe his Latin com- 
 pofitions b.-gan.to give him a reputation in his 
 earlieft years, not only in Italy, but in France, 
 where he was carried by his father when he was 
 but tight years of age. Having reached twenty- 
 three, his gentle foul was kindled with love for a 
 young lady, d Avignon called Laura, who being, 
 in all probability, a lover of Italian, then thcfafhi- 
 onable language, of the wis of both countries, was 
 the caufe that her admirer took to write in it 
 thoie numerous pieces of poetry which will fend 
 the name of this lady to the remoteft pofterity. 
 
 This
 
 ITALIAN TON QUE. x*i 
 
 This is not a proper place to expatiate on Pe- 
 trarch's different powers as a writer, that gained 
 him the appellation oi Rtjlorer of- the Laiin tongue j 
 therefore confining myfelf to the character of his 
 Italian verfes, I fay that he fell fhott! of Dante in 
 point of vehemence of exprefiion, ftrength of 
 thinking* and variety of invention \ but he greatly 
 furpaffed both him and all his poetical predecef- 
 fors in propriety, exactnefs, and elegance: then 
 the muficfc of his number is fo melodious* that he 
 is rather too foft and tender whenever he mentions 
 his joylefs love for his chafte friend. I think him 
 effeminate in many places, but this is my particu- 
 lar opinion, and the reader muft take it as fuch. 
 p^ . . . ' i. 
 
 I will, however, notpafs in filence a pretty cu- 
 rious anecdote regarding this poet. He. was, asl 
 faid, fo defperately fond of Laura, that be loved 
 her even many years after her death. His tender 
 verfes had made fuch an impreflion on a Pope of 
 his time, that pitying the poor enamorato, he went 
 fo far as to offer him a difpenfation of his vow?* 
 {Petrarch had early embraced theecclefiaftickftate) 
 that he might marry her. But Petrarch magna- 
 nimously declined the offer, and chof? rather to fuf- 
 fer a!l the diltrefs in which his violent paflion kept 
 him, than put a (top to that vein of fweet poetry 
 which would have been drained, as he apprehend- 
 ed, had he got poffeflion of the lady, and would 
 rather go on immortalizing both her name and his 
 b 3 own
 
 xx i A H I S TO R Y of the 
 
 own by praifing her charms, than make himfelf 
 happy in the fruition of them. I will not examine 
 here whether he was right or wrong in fo doing, 
 and without going further wide of my firft aim, I 
 here tranfcribe the firft Canzone that he writ on his 
 Lauras death. 
 
 Che debb'iofar! che mi configli, A more ! 
 Tempo e ben di morire, 
 Ed afpettato ho piu ch' io non voirei. 
 Madonna e morta ed ha feco il mio core, 
 E volendol feguire 
 
 Interromper convien queft' anni rei : 
 Perche mai veder Lei 
 Di qua non fpero \ e V afpettar m' e noja, 
 Pofcia ch' ogni mia gioja 
 Per lo fuo dipartire in piantoe voita, 
 Ogni dolcezza di mia vita e tolta. 
 
 Amor tu 'J lenti ond' io teco mi doglio, 
 Quanto e '1 danno afpro e grave ; 
 E io che del mio mal ti pefa eduole ; 
 Anzi del noftro : peiche ad uno fcoglio 
 Avem rotto la nave, 
 Ed in un pun to n' e fcurato ii fole ! 
 Qual irgegno a parole 
 Poria agguagliar il mio dogliofo ftato ! 
 Ahi orbo mondo e ingrato 
 Gran cagione hai di dever pianger meco, 
 Che quel ben ch* era in te perduto hai feco. 
 
 Cadutae la tua gloria e tu nol vedi ; 
 Nedegnoe:i, mentr' ella 
 
 Vifife
 
 ITALIANTONGUE* x*iii 
 Vifife quaggiiij d' aver fua conofcenza, 
 Ne d' effer tocco da' fuoi fanti piedi : 
 Perche cofa si bella 
 Devea'l Cielo adornar di fua prefenza. 
 Ma io, laflb, che fenza 
 Lei ne vita mortal ne me ftcff' amo* 
 Piangendo la richiamo : 
 Qnefto m' avvanzadi cotanta fpene^ 
 E quefto folo ancor qui mi mantene* 
 
 Oime, terra e fatto il fuo bel vifo* 
 Che folea far del Cielo, 
 E del ben di lafsii fede fra noi ! 
 U invifibil fua forma e in Paradifo 
 Difciolta diquelvelo 
 
 Che qui fece ombra al fior degli atlni fuoij 
 Per riveftirfen poi 
 
 Un' altra volta, e mai piu non fpogllarfi, 
 Quand' alma e bella farfi 
 Tanto piu la vedrem, quanto p'm vale 
 Sempiterna bellezza che mortale* 
 
 Piu che mai bella, e piu leggiadra donna 
 Tornami innanzi come 
 La, dove piu gradir fua vifta fente. 
 Queft' e del viver mio 1' una colonna i 
 L' altra e '1 fuo chiaro nome, 
 Che fona nel mio cor si dolcemente. 
 Ma tornandomi a mente, 
 Che pur mortae la mia fperanza viva, 
 Allor ch' ella fioriva, 
 Sa ben Amor qual io divento : e fpero 
 Vedalcolci, che ore siprefib al vero. 
 
 b 4 Donne*
 
 xxW A HISTORY of the 
 
 Donne, voi che mirafte fua beltate, 
 E 1' angelica vita, 
 
 Con quel celefte portamento in terra : 
 Di me vi doglia, e vincavi pietade, 
 Non di lei, che e falita 
 A tanta pace, e me ha lafciato in guerra : 
 Tal che, s* altrimi ferra 
 Lungo tempo il cammin da feguitarla i 
 Quel, che Amor meco parla, 
 Sol mi ritien ch' io non recida il nodo ; 
 Ma e' ragiona dentro in cotal modo. 
 
 Pon freno al gran dolor, che ti trafporta, 
 Che per foverchie voglie 
 Si perde il cielo ove '1 tuo core afpira, 
 Dov' e viva colei che aitrui par morta ; 
 E di fue belle fpoglie 
 Seco forride ; e fol di te fofpira ; 
 E fua fama che fpira 
 In moke parti ancorper la tua lingua, 
 Prega, che non s'eftingua j 
 Anzi la voce al fuo nome rifchiari ; 
 Se gli occhi fuoi ti fur mai dolci o cari. 
 
 Fuggi '1 fereno e '1 verde , 
 Non t* appreiTar, ove fia rifo o canto, 
 Canzon mia, no, ma pian'o : 
 Non fa per te lo ftar fra gente allegra, 
 Vedova fconfolata in veik* negra. 
 
 Petrarch
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xxv 
 
 Petrarch is the laft of our writers that ftudied 
 the Provencal language, which was then at its 
 Joweft ebb, and fell in fuch neglect about his time, 
 that none of Peirach\ fucccfibrs feem to have 
 thought of it any further. Such was the reputa- 
 tion he acquired, that fince him thegreateft pare 
 of the Italian wits adopted his language as the true 
 language of the mufes. 
 
 Our poetry had, by this time, made a very con- 
 fiderable progrefs. Pelrarcb's age had produced 
 fo many elegant poetical compofitions that it de- 
 ferved from fucceffive ages to be called ilbuonfe- 
 colo delta lingua^ the good century of the language 
 but our profe remained ftill uncultivated, and we 
 Hill wanted a proie writer as excellent in his kind 
 as Dante and Petrarch had been in theirs. 
 
 The good genius of Italy did not fuffer us to be 
 without one j Giovanni Boccaccio^ a friend of Pe- 
 trarch, about thirty years after his matter, began to 
 publifli many works, amongft which his Decame- 
 rone raifed his name fo high, that no Italian author 
 has yet appeared who pretends, or can with juflice 
 pretend to be poflTdTed of only one half of his per- 
 fections. Boccaccio has copioufnefs of words, ele- 
 gance of ftile, variety of thought, facility of in- 
 vention, and fo many other excellencies, that none 
 of his countrymen mud hope to get the upper 
 hand of him. 
 
 This
 
 xxvi A HISTORY of the 
 
 This is the chara&er that Boccaccio acquired and 
 preferved in Italy, fines the firft publication of his 
 Decamerone \ yet my particular opinion is, that he 
 has all thofe good qualities when he fpeaks of 
 Judicrousthings , but when he treats aferious fub- 
 jefl, I do not find his ftile fo conftantly natural 
 and perfpicuous, as in his humorous defcriptions 
 and burlefque narrations. In his introduction to 
 his novels, for inftance, which contains a defcrip- 
 tion of the plague that raged in Tufcany in tne 
 year 1348, he drives too much to be eloquent and 
 pompous, and his ftile is here and there perplexed 
 and embaraffed by circumlocutions and parenthe- 
 fes ; but when he comes to defcribe and charac- 
 terize Ser CiapellctC) Frate Cipolla, Guccio Imbratla, 
 or CalandrinOy his expreflaons flow with precifion 
 and rapidity. 
 
 But that commendation which Boccaccio deferves 
 from the admirers of Italian language and elo- 
 quence, is entirely forfeited if we look on his De- 
 camerone with the eyes of moralifts andChriflians. 
 Yet as the intent of this hiftorical diflertation is 
 to treat of language and not morals, I (hall not 
 expatiate on the numerous tranfgreftions among 
 our writers of the limits which religion ought to 
 have fet their pens ; but without further digreflion 
 copy a novel, for afpecimen of Boccaccio' % profe. 
 
 In
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE: xxvii 
 
 In Firenze fu gia un giovane chiamato Fe- 
 derigo di Mefler Filippo Alberighi in opera d' 
 arme e in cortefia pregiato fopra ogn' altro 
 donzel di Tofcana ; il quale, ficcome al piu de* 
 gentile donna gentiluomini giovanniavienne d'una 
 chiamata Monna Giovanna s' innamoro, ne* fuoj 
 tempi tenuta delle piu belle e delle piu leggiadre 
 che in Firenze fofTero ; ed accio che egli 1' amor 
 di lei acquiftar potefTe, gioftrava, armeggiava, fa- 
 ceva fefte, e donava il fuo o fpendeva fenza alcun 
 ritegno. Ma ella non meno onefta che bella, ni- 
 ence di quelle cofe per lei fatte ne di colui fi cu 
 rava che le faceva. Spendendo adunque Federigo 
 oltre ad ogni fuo potere molto e niente acquiftan- 
 do, le ricchezze mancarono ed effo rimafe povero 
 e fenz' altra cofa che un fuo poderetto piccolo ef- 
 fergli rimafa, delle rendite del quale ftremflima- 
 menteviveva, ed oltre aqueftoun fuo Falcone de* 
 migliori del mondo. Perche amando piu che 
 mai, ne parendogli piupoter eflere cittadinocome 
 difiderava, a campi la dove il fuo poderetto era fe 
 ne ando a ftare ; e quivi quando poteva uccellando 
 e fenza alcuna perfona richiederepazientemente la 
 fua poverta comportava. Ora avenne un di, die, 
 elfendo cosi Federigo divenuto all' eftremo, il ma- 
 rito di Monna Giovanna infer mo, e veggendofi 
 alia morte venire, fece teftamento, ed elfendo ric- 
 chiffimo lafcio in quello fjo erede un fuo figliuolo 
 gia grandicello, ed apprelfo quedo, avendo moho 
 amata Monna Giovanna, lei, fe avveniffe che il 
 figliuolo fenza erede legitimo morilfe, fuo erede 
 3 foftitui
 
 xxviii A HISTORY of the 
 
 fjfiitui e moriffi. Rimafta a Junque vedova Mon- 
 na Giovanna, come uianza e delle noftre Djnne, 
 T anno di ftate con quefto fuo figliuolo fe n' an- 
 dava in contado ad una fua poffefiione afiai vicina 
 a quella di Fedeiigo, peiche avvenne che queuo 
 Garzoncello s' incomincio a dimefticare con quef- 
 to Fedtrigo e a dilettarfi d' uccelli e di cani, ed 
 avendo vtduco moke voice il falcone di Fcderigo 
 volare, iftranamer.t- piacendogli, forte difiderava 
 d' averlo j ma pure non s' attentava di doman- 
 darlo, veggendolo a lui effer cocanto caro. E co- 
 si ftando la cofa, avvenne che il Garzoncello in- 
 fermo, di che la madre dolorofa mcko, come co- 
 Jei che piu non ne avea e lui amavaquanto piu fi 
 poteva, tu:to '1 di ftandogli d* intorno, non riftava 
 di confortarlo, e fprfie volte il domandava fe al- 
 cuna cofa era la quale egii difideraffr, pregandolo 
 glide diceffe, che per certo, fe poffibile foffe ad a- 
 vere, procaccerebbe come e' 1' avelTe. II Giovane 
 udite molte volte quefte proferte, diffe : madre 
 mia, fe voi fate the io abbia il falcone di Federiso, 
 io mi credo prtftamente guerire. La Donna, u- 
 dendo quefto, alquanto fopra fe ftttte, e comincio 
 a penfar qutl'o che far doveffe. Eila fapeva che 
 Federigo lungamente 1' aveva amata, nemaida 
 lei una fola guatatura aveva avuta ; perche eila 
 diceva : come mandcio io, o andro a demandar- 
 gli quefto falcone, che e per quel ch' io odo i] 
 migliore che mai volaffe, e o'tre a cio il mantien 
 nel mondo ? E coaie faro io si fconofcentechead 
 un gentile uomo, al quale niuno akro diletto e 
 
 piu
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xxix 
 
 p'lu i imafo, io quefto voglia torre ? Ed in cosi fat- 
 to p?nfiero impacciata, come che ella fofTe certifli- 
 ma d' averlo fe '! domandafTc, fenza Taper che do- 
 ver dire, non rifjpondeva al figliccolo ma ft ftava. 
 Ultimamente tanto la vinfe 1' amor del figiiuolo 
 che ella fecodifpofe per concentarlo, checcheeffer 
 ne doveflfe, di non mandare, ma d' andare ella 
 medefima per eflb e di recargliele, erifpofegli: 
 Figliuol mio, confortati e penfa di guerire di for- 
 za, che io ti prometto che la p-ima cofa che io fa- 
 ro domattina io andro per efib, e si il ti rechero. 
 Di che il fanciulio lieto il di medefimo moftro al- 
 cun mi^lioramento. La donna la rmttina feguen- 
 te, prefi un' altra donna in compagnia, per modo 
 di diporto fe n' ando alia piccola cafefa diFederigo, 
 e fecelo addimandare. Egli, perciocche non era 
 tempo,neeraftatoaque' di tempod'uccellare, era 
 in un fuo orto, e faceva certi fuoi lavorietti accon- 
 ciare. 11 quale udendo che Monna Giovanna il 
 domandava alia porta, maravigliandofi forte, lieto 
 la corfe. La quale vtdendol venire, con una don- 
 nefca piacevolezzi levatag!ifi incontro, avendola 
 gia Federigo riverentemente fa'utata, difle : Bene 
 ilea Federigo : e feguito : Io ion venuta a rifto- 
 rarti de' danni li quali tu hai gia avuti per me, a- 
 manciomi piii che ftato non ti farebbe bifogno j ed 
 il riftoro e coral", che io intendo con quefta mia 
 compagna iufieme definare teco dimefticamente 
 ftaman-*. Ailaqual Federigo umilmente rifpofe: 
 Madonna, niun danno mi ricorda mai aver rice- 
 vuto per voi, ma tan:o di bene che fe io maialcu- 
 
 na
 
 xxx A HISTORY of the 
 
 na cofa valfi, per Io voftro valore e per 1' amore 
 che portato v' ho, avvenne ; e per certo quefta 
 voflra liberale venuta m' e troppo piu cara che non 
 farebbe fe da capo mi fofle dato da fpendere quan- 
 to per addietro ho gia fpefo, come che a povero 
 ofte fiate venuta. E cosi detto vergognofamente 
 dentro alia fua cafo la riceveite, e di qudla nel fuo 
 giardino la condufle ; e quivi non avendo a cui 
 farle tener compagnia, diflfe : madonna, poiche 
 altri non c' e, quefta buona donna mogiie di quef- 
 to lavoratore vi terra compagnia tanto ch' io vada 
 a far metter la tavola. Egli, con tutto che la fua 
 poverta fofle ftrema, non s' era ancor tanto avve~ 
 duto quanto bifogno gli facea che non aveffe fuor 
 d' ordine fpefe le fue ricchezze , ma quefta mattina 
 niuna cofa trovandofi di che potere onorar ladon- 
 ra, per amore deila quale egli gia infiniti uomini 
 onorati avea, il fe rawedere j ed ohre modo an- 
 gofciofo, feco fteflb maladicendo la fua fortuna, 
 come uomo che fuor di fe foffe, or qua or la traf- 
 eorrendo, ne danari ne pegno trovandofi, effcndo 
 J' ora tarda e il defiderio grande di pure onorar d' 
 alcuna cofa la gentil donna, e non volendo, non che 
 altru', il lavorator fuo fteffo richiedere, gli corfe 
 agli occhi il fuo buon falcone, il quale nella fua fa- 
 letta vide fopra la ft.inga ; perche non avendo a che 
 altro ricorrere, prefolo e trovatolo graffb, penso lui 
 eftlre dtgna vivanda di cotal donna, epero fenzi 
 piu penfarc tiratogli il collo, ad una fua fanticdla 
 il fe preftamente pclato ed acconcio mettere in uno 
 fchidone e arrouir diligentemente, e mcfia la ta- 
 vola
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xxxi 
 
 vola con tovaglie bianchifiime delle quale alcuna 
 ancora avea, con lieto vifo ritorno alia donna nel 
 fuo giardino, e il definare che per lui far fi potea 
 diffe effere apparecchiato. Laonde la donna con 
 la fua compagna levatafi andarono a tavola, e fen- 
 za fapere che fi mangiaffero infieme con Federigo 
 il quale con Comma fede le ferviva mangiarono il 
 buon falcone. E levate da tavola e alquanto in 
 piacevoli ragionamenti con lui dimorate, parendo 
 alia donna tempo di dire quello perche andata era, 
 cosi benignamence verfo Federigo incomincio a 
 a parlare. Federigo, ricordandoti tu della tua pre- 
 terita vita e della mia onefta, la quale per avven- 
 tura tu hai riputata durezza e crudelta, io non du- 
 bito punto che tu non ti debbi maravigliare della 
 mia prefunzione, fentendo quello perche princi- 
 palmente qui venuta fono ; ma fe figliuoli avefli 
 o avefli avuti, per li quali potefii conofcere di quan- 
 ta forza fia 1* amore che lor fi porta, mi parrebbe 
 eflfer certa che in parte m* avrefti per ifcufata : ma 
 come che tu non n' abbia, io che ne ho uno non 
 pofio pero le leggi comumi dell' altre madri fug- 
 gire , le cui forze feguir convenendomi, mi con. 
 viene oltre al piacer mio ed oltre ad ogni conve- 
 nevolezzi e dovere chiederti un dono il quale io fo 
 che fommamente t' e caro, ed e ragione ; perche 
 niuno alrrodiletto, niuno altro diporto, niuna con- 
 folazione lafciata t' ha la tua ftrema fortuna ; e 
 q-iefto dor.o e il falcon tuo, del quaie il fanciul mio 
 e si forte invaghito, che fe io nongliele porto, io 
 temo che eg'i non aggravi tanto nella infermira la 
 
 quale
 
 xxxii A HISTORY of the 
 
 quale ha, che poi ne fegua cofa per la quale io il 
 perda. E percio io ti priego, non per 1' amore che 
 tu mi por J (al quale tu di niente fe* tenuto) ma per 
 la tua nobilia, la quale in ufar cortefia fi e maggi- 
 ore che in alcuno altro moftrata, che ti debba pia- 
 cere di donarlomi acciocche io per quefto dono pof- 
 fa dire d' aver ritenuto in vita il mio figliuolo, e 
 per quello averloti fempre obligate Federigo u- 
 dendo cio che la donna addomandava, e fentendo 
 che fcrvir non la poteva p.rcio che mangiare gliele 
 avea dato, comincio in prefenza di lei a piangere 
 anzi che alcuna parola rifponder potefle. II qual 
 pianro la donna prima credette che da dclore di 
 dover da fe dipartire il buon falcon divenifie piu 
 che da altro, e quafi fu per dire che nol voleiTe ; 
 ma pur foftenutafi afpe;to dopo il pianto la rifpof- 
 la di Federigo, il quale co: i diffe. Madonna, pci- 
 che al ciel piacque che io in voi ponefn il mio a- 
 more, in affai cofe m' ho riputata la fortuna con- 
 traria e fommi di lei doluto ; ma tutte fono (late 
 leggieri a rifpetto di que'.lo che ella mi fa al pre- 
 fenre, di che io mai pace con lei aver non dtbbo, 
 penfando chz voi qui alia mia povera cafa v^nuta 
 fiete, dove mentre che ricca fu venir non degr.afte, 
 e da me un picciol don vogliate, ed tlla abbia si 
 fatto en' io donar nol vi pofli ; e perche quefto ef- 
 fer non poiTa vi dim brievemente. Come io udi 
 che voi la voftra merce meco detinar volevate, a- 
 vendo rlguardo alia voftra eccellenza ed al voflro 
 valore, rcputai degna econvenevole cofa che con 
 piu eara vivanda fecondo la mia poffibilita io vi 
 
 dovtffi
 
 1 TALI AN TONGUE. xxxiii 
 
 tiovefii onorare che con quelle che generalmence 
 per T altre perfone fi ufano ; perche ricordandomi 
 del falcon che mi domandate e della fua bonta, 
 degno cibo da voi il reputai, e quefta mattirta arro- 
 ilito 1' avete avuto in ful tagliere, il quale io per 
 ottimamente allogato avea, ma vedendo ora che in' 
 altra mantra il defideravate m' e si gran duolo 
 che fervir non ve ne poffo, che mai pace non me 
 credo dare. E quefto detto, le penne e i piedi e '1 
 becco le fe' in teftimonianza di cio gittare avanti. 
 La qual cofa la Donna vedendo e udendo, prima 
 il biafimo d* avere per dar mangiare ad una fem- 
 mina uccifo un tal falcone, e poi la grandezza deli* 
 animo fuo, la quale la poverta non avea potuto ne 
 potea rintuzzare, molto feco medefima commen- 
 do. Poi rimafa fuor della fperanza d* avere il fal- 
 cone e per quello della falute del figliulo entrata 
 in forfe, ringraziato Federigo dell' onor fattole e 
 del fuo buon volere* tutta malinconofa fi diparti e 
 tornofli al figliulo, il quale o per malinconia che 
 il falcone aver non potea o per 1' infermita che pure 
 a cio il doveffe aver condotto, non trappafTar mol- 
 ti giorni che con grandifiimo dolor della madre di 
 quefta vita pafso. La quale poi che piena di la- 
 grime e di amaritudine fu ftata alquanto, eflendo 
 rimafa ricchiffima e ancora giovane, piu volte fu 
 da fratelli coftretta a rimaritarfi. La quale, come 
 che voluto non aveffe, pur veggendofi infeflare, ri- 
 cordatafi del valor di Federigo e delja fua magni- 
 iicenzia ultima, cioe d' avere uccifo un cos! fatto. 
 
 c falcone
 
 xxxiv A HISTORY of thk 
 
 falcone per onorarla, difle a' fratelli : Io olcnt?- 
 eri, quando vi piaceffe, mi ftarei ; ma fe a voi pur 
 piace che io marito prenda, per certo io non ne 
 prendero mai alcuno altro fe io non ho Federigo 
 degli Alberighi. Alia quale i fratelli, facendoft 
 beffe di lei, dififero : fciocca, che e cio che tu di ? 
 come vuoi tu di lui che non ha cofa del mondo ? 
 a' quali ella rifpofe : fratelli miei, io fo bene che 
 cosi e come voi dite *, ma io voglio avanti uomo 
 che abbia bifogno di ricchezza che ricchezza che 
 abbia bifogno d' uomo. Li fratelli udendo V ani- 
 mo di lei e conofcendo Federigo da molto quan- 
 tunque poverofoffe, ficcome ella voile, lei con tut- 
 te le fue ricchezze gli donarono. II quale cosi fat- 
 ta Donna e cui egli cctanto amata aveva per mog- 
 lie vedendofi ed oltre a cio ricchifiimo, in letizia 
 con lei miglior maflajo fatto termino gli anni fuoi. 
 
 Contemporaries with Boccach were Zucchero 
 Bencivenni, Cifcranna de* Piccolomini, Alberto degli 
 Albizi, Leonardo del Galacone, Arrigo Cafiruccio 
 (fon of Cafiruccio Cafiracani) Rainerio de* Paglia- 
 refii Giovanni Lambertacci, Gano da Colle, Andrea 
 di Piero Malavolta, Giacopo Cclonna, Cecco Angiolie- 
 ri 9 Antonio Pucci, Dino di Tucca, and numberlefs 
 others. 
 
 This fet of writers was immediately followed 
 by another of much more eminence than they. 
 Laurence of the Medici of Florence, the richeft pri- 
 vate
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, xxxv 
 
 vatc man that perhaps lived in Italy fince the Ro- 
 man CrafTus, encouraged with fuch princely mu- 
 nificence the learned of his time, and efpecially 
 thofe that efcaped from Greece, then conquered 
 by the Turks, that Florence became the feat of 
 the Mufes, and Italy was filled with good writers. 
 
 Our language was not only beautified by the 
 compositions of Laurence and his numerous cour- 
 tiers and friends, but enlarged by their elegant 
 translations of the belt Latin and Greek books. 
 
 Poetry and learning became then fo much in fa 
 fhion, that even carpenters, fhoe- makers, barbers, 
 and taylors, of Tufcany could write good verfes \ 
 nor mall I fcruple to number amongft our poets, 
 Majfa the joiner, Piero the carder, Giovanni Gug- 
 giola the feller of greens, and many more, whofe 
 lyric compofitions pleafe me near as much as thofe 
 of Petrarch himfelf. 
 
 The greateft men in literature that Italy boafts 
 of, flourifhed in that time : the names of Poliziano* 
 Ficino, Barbaro^ Pico, Poggio, Valla y Crifolora, the 
 two Aretines, Mofchopulo % Tarcagnota, Calcondik, 
 Bejfarione, and odiers, either profefibrs or promo- 
 ters of Italian learning, will laft as long as man- 
 kind are wife enough to be addicted to arts and 
 fciences. 
 
 cz For
 
 xxxvi 
 
 A HISTORY of the 
 
 For a fpecimen of the language of that period I 
 fhall only tranicribe a few ftanzas out of the epic 
 poem of Luigi Pidci, intitled // Morgante Maggi- 
 ore : a poem that, in my opinion, may cope with 
 thofe of Bojardo and Ariojlo^ for power and vari- 
 ety of poetical thinking. Orlando who, next Mor- 
 %ante, is the chief hero of this poem, after having 
 fought the battle of Roncifoalle, is fo much over- 
 powered with fatigue, that he finds he has ex- 
 haufted his natural vigour ; Pulci therefore makes 
 him pronounce this mournful and devout prayer, 
 before he departs from life. 
 
 O Redemor de' miferi mortali 
 II qual tanto per noi t' umiliafti 
 Che non guardando a* tanti noftri mali 
 In quell' unica Vergine incarnafti 
 Quel di che Gabriele aperfe V all, 
 E la umana Natura rilevafti , 
 Dimetti il fervo tuo come a te piace-, 
 Lafciami a te, Signor, venire in pace. 
 
 Io dico pace dopo lunga guerra, 
 Ch' io fon per gli anni pur defeiTo e flanco, 
 Rendi il mifero corpo a quefta terra 
 II qual tu vedi giacanutoe bianco 
 Mentre che la ragion meco non erra : 
 La < arne e inferma e 1' animo ancor franco y 
 Sicche al tempo accettabil tu m' accetti, 
 Che molti fon chiamati e pochi eletti.
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, xxxvii 
 
 Io ho per la tua fede combattuto, 
 Come tu M iai, Signor, fanza ch' io 'I dica, 
 Sempre che al mondo Ton quaggiii vifluto ; 
 Ma non poffo oramai qiitflo fatica ; 
 Pero T arme ti rendo, che e dovuto, 
 E tu perdonaa queftachioma antica, 
 Che a contemplare omai mi' officio parmi 
 La gloria tua e porre in pofa 1' armi. 
 
 Porgi, Signore, al fervo tuo la mano, 
 Trami diqutfto labirinto fuori 
 Perche tu fe' quel noftro Pellicano 
 Che pregafti pe' tuoi CrocifiQbri, 
 Perch' io conofco il norrro viver vano 
 Vanitas vanitatum pien d' errori, 
 Che quanto io ho nel mondo adoperato 
 Nonne riportoalfinfe non peccaco. 
 
 Quando tu ci creafti, Signor, prima, 
 Perche tu fe' magnalmo e moltopio, 
 Credo che tu facefti qu fta ftima 
 Che noi foffim figliuoi tutti di Dio : 
 Se quel ferpente con fua lbrda lima 
 Adam tenio, tu n' hai pagato il fio 
 Come magno Signor non obbligato 
 Perche pur era di tua man plafmato ; 
 
 E perdonafti a tutta la Natura 
 Quando tu perdonafti al primo Padre, 
 E poi degnafti farti fua fattura 
 Quando tu alTumefti in terra Madre : 
 
 c 3 Non
 
 xxxviii A H I S TO R Y of the 
 
 Non (o s' io eruro in valle troppo fcura ; 
 Dunque propio i Criftian fon le tue fquadre : 
 Io ho fempre difcfc quelle al mondo : 
 Ajuta or me tu mio Signor giocondo. 
 
 Non entrarein judicio, Signor, meco 
 Che nel cofpetto tuo juflificato 
 Non iara alcun, fe tu non vuoi, gia teco 
 Perche tutti nafcemo con peccato, 
 E cio che nafce al mondo nafce cieco 
 Se non tu fol nafcefti illuminato : 
 Abbi pieta della mia fenettute, 
 Non mi negare il porto di falute. 
 
 Alda la Bella oime ti raccomando 
 La qual prefto ptr me fia 'n vefte bruna ! 
 Che s' altro fpoib mai torra che Orlando 
 Fia maritata con miglior fortuna : 
 E poiche molte cofe :i domando, 
 Signor, fe vuoi ch' io ne chiegga ancor una, 
 Ricordati del tuo buon Carlo vecchio 
 E di quefti tuoi fervi in ch' io mi fpecchio. 
 
 I will not omit to fay, that many people in Italy 
 fufpeft Politiano and not Puki to be the author of 
 this epic poem ; and indeed there are fuch impious 
 ftrokes of immorality running throughout it, and 
 fuch a quantity of fweet and elegant verfes, as may 
 almoft confirm the aiTertion of 1'eofilus FolenguSy 
 who, in his poem of Orlandino Pitocw, affirms 
 that Puki had it from Polnian. 
 
 M
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, xxxix 
 
 At the fame time that Pulci was enlarging and 
 cmbellifhing our language, and charming the years 
 of his poetical but irreligious readers with his 
 whimfical and irregular Morgante, Bojardo, count 
 of Scandiano, publifhcd in Lombardy another e- 
 pic poem intitled Orlando Innamorato, which for 
 extent of invention, variety of characters, and pic- 
 ture of paffions and manners, was far fuperior to 
 Pulci's ; yet Orlando, in point of language and ver- 
 fification was fo much below the Florentine poet, 
 that Francefco Berni, the modern Catullus of Italy, 
 took upon hhnfelf to verfify it again, and about fif- 
 ty years after Bojardo*s death, publifhed his Rifa- 
 cimento (as we call it) of the Orlando lnnamorato. 
 
 This kind of tranflation pleafed the Italians fo 
 much that th^y almoft forgot the original poem, 
 and, efpecially in our days, the generality of read- 
 ers care but little for Bojardo's genuine work.- 
 
 Berni was not fatisfied with only making the 
 verification of this poem better : he interfperfed it 
 with many ftanzas of his own, and changed almoft 
 all the beginnings of the cantos, introducing each 
 of them with fome moral reflection arifing from 
 the canto foregoing. I fhall only, for a fpecimen 
 of his fmooth and fimple language, tranferibe one 
 of thefe beginnings, after having informed my 
 reader that Bojardo, in the canto that preceeds 
 C 4 tjife
 
 xl A HISTORY of the 
 
 this fpecimen had dtfcribed a fet of human mort- 
 fters called Anthropophagi and Leftrigons, who, 
 were of gigantic ftature, had large nofes, extended 
 eye brows, bufhy beards, fharp talons inftead of 
 nails at their fingers, and fed only on human fielh 
 which they were ufedto eat out of veffels of gold. 
 Berni makes a moral and fatirical application of 
 their figures and manners to the cour tiers of Rome, 
 who in his time were a fet of mod corrupted peo- 
 ple, as courtiers generally are every where in our 
 days as well as in Berm's time. The canto begins 
 thus: 
 
 Di quefti Antropofaghi e ^tftrigoni 
 E gran dovizia ne' noflri Paefi, 
 Chehan que'dentacci lunghi e queg Y unghion* 
 E barbe e nafi grandi e cigli tefi : 
 Son quefti i Corteglani empi Padroni 
 Che hanno fempre a mal far gli animi accefi 5 
 Mangian la came e il fangue i Traditori 
 D.e loro fventurati Servidori. 
 A chi mangian la tefta, a chi le fchiene, 
 A chi ie braccia, a chi mano, a chi piede : 
 Significa la tefta il voler bene, 
 II troppo portar loro amore e fede: 
 II pie' vuol dir Colui chc va e viene, 
 Che Cv.rre in quae in la fenza mercedc : 
 Vuol dir le fpalle c le braccia e la mano 
 Ogni fe;vigio finalmente vana 
 
 Quelle
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, k\l 
 
 Quelle cofe i ribaldi fcellerati 
 
 Mangiano a menfa in piatti e in coppe d $ oro 5 
 
 Che vuol dir che fi ftanquieti, agiati, 
 
 E par che ognun fia obbligaro loro, 
 
 E che non faccian male effendo ingrati j 
 
 Ma fieri pagati di si bel lavoro 
 
 O da Dio o dal Diavolo o da quella 
 
 Trifta della fortuna a i buon rubella. 
 
 GH unghioni aguzzi vuol dir 1' ingordezza 
 La lor voracita, la lor rapina ; 
 Le ciglia tefe vuol dir P alterezza 
 La natura fuperba ed afinina 
 Con la quale ognun d' efii ognor difprezza 
 Chi di e notte a fervirli indovina : 
 A Bcftie, a Scempi, a Ghiotti fan carezze 
 Che fbn degni di coltri e di cavezze. 
 
 II nafo lungo vuol dir le avanie 
 
 Che addofib a i buoni ognor levando vanno : 
 
 Che li vanno annafando con le fpie 
 
 E trovando i difetti che non hanno. 
 
 E' fan no ben che dicon le bugie, 
 
 Ma lor bafta a fcufarfi fe non danno 
 
 Ogni poco d' attacco e di colore 
 
 Che copra il lor crudele ingrato core: 
 
 Reftano i denti ch' e la quarta parte, 
 Che vale a dire i rabbufrl, i romori, 
 Le parole mordaci che con arte 
 Ufan per fbigottire i fervidori : 
 Dove fe' tu, Orlando e Brand imarte, 
 voi di fimil bcftie domatori : 
 
 Beftic
 
 xlii A HISTORY of the 
 
 Beftte ch' Ercole e Bacco non trbvaro 
 Mai tal fra tutti i moftri che domaro. 
 
 The poem of Orlando Innamorato % though a ve- 
 ry long one, is not finifhed, and the author pro- 
 bably was hindered by death from compleating it. 
 After having moft ftrongly awakened and kept a 
 long while in fufpence the curiofity of the reader, 
 Bojardo had left it unfatisfied by not bringing Or* 
 lando*s warlike feats and defperate love to an end 
 Many poets therefore and amongft them Nicolbde- 
 gli Agojiini writ feveral continuations of it*, but 
 their productions were difregarded as none of them 
 came up to Bojardo *s performance. The honour 
 of rivalling and even furpaffing the count of Scan- 
 diano was referved to Lodovico Ariofio^ who, in the 
 year 1515, publifhed for the flrft time his Orlan- 
 do Furiofo. 
 
 But before I fpeak of Ariojlo, I mufc return 
 back to the fifteenth century, and mention ano- 
 ther of our poems of the epic kind, written before 
 thofe of Pulci and Bojardo^ by Federigo Frczzi, a 
 native, and bifhop of Foligno, after the manner 
 and (tile of Dante. This poem was publifhed for 
 the firrt time in Perugia, with this uncouth title : 
 Incomincia el Libro intitulato quatriregio de decurfu 
 del/a vita bumana de Mejfer Federico Fratre dell or- 
 dine de Sanfto Dominico Eximio Maejlro in Sacra 
 iheologia : Et ja vefcovo della Citta de Foligni : Di- 
 
 videfe
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE: xliix 
 videfe in quaRro Libri partialifecondo quattro Regm, 
 Nel primo fe tracla del regno de Bio Cupido. Net 
 fecondo del Regno de Sat ban. Nel tertio del Regno 
 delli Vitii. Nel quarto fcf ultimo del Regno de Dea 
 Minerva e de Virtu ; but there is nothing uncouth 
 in the whole book except the title. Frezzi wrote 
 it with as much purity of Tufcan language as if he 
 had been born on the banks of Arno ; and I fup- 
 pofe it contributed much at that time to the en- 
 larging of our tongue, as it was printed fix times 
 in the fpace of thirty years ; but by an unaccount- 
 able misfortune, this fanciful, inftruclive, and tru- 
 ly poetical performance, was fo much neglecled 
 after the fixth edition, that it was near being quite 
 loft to mankind, almoft all the copies of the old 
 editions having been deftroyed by time and ne- 
 glect. Nor are the Italians little indebted to the 
 Academicians of Foligno, who having found two 
 or three copies of it, reprinted it in the year 1725, 
 giving us an additional volume of notes and hif- 
 torical obfervations on the poem and its author, 
 for a fpecimen of whofe elegant and forcible lan- 
 guage, 1 mail tranfcribe the feventh chapter of his 
 fecond book. 
 
 Migliaja di Moftri piu oltre trovai, 
 I quai, bench' io li narri e li racconte 
 Appena a me fi credera giammai. 
 
 Anims
 
 xhV A HISTORY of the 
 
 Anime vidi al iito d' Acheronte 
 Che avean fette perfone e fette faccie, 
 E quelle fu in un ventre eran congionte. 
 
 Penfa feu* Uomin che 1' un 1' altro abbraccb 
 Dictro alle reni, econ fette man manche, 
 Con fette deft re ed altretrante braccie. 
 
 Ed avean fol un ventre, e fo! due anche, 
 E fol due anche, e folo un umbilico : 
 Si fatti moftri non fon trovati anche. 
 
 E ciafcun delli vifi i quali io dico 
 Quant' era piu appreflb a quel davante 
 Piu giovan era e diretro piu antico -, 
 
 Sicche la prima faccia era d' infante 
 Or ora nato, e 1' al'ra puerile, 
 D' adolefcente il terzo avea fembhnte -, 
 
 Giovane il quarto, il quinto era virile, 
 II fefto di canuti era cofperfo, 
 E I' ultimo un vecchiaccio trifto e vile. 
 
 Miglia' di moftri fatti a quefto verfo 
 Stavano a lato di queli' acqua bruna 
 Per pafTar 1' onde del lago perverfo, 
 
 II q*jal aveva aflai maggior fortuna 
 Che mai Cariddi, Scilla, o 1* Oceano 
 Quando ha refluiTo o quando volta luna. 
 
 Vidi Caron non mclto da lontano 
 Con una nave in mezzo alia tempefta 
 Che conducea con un gran remo in mano. 
 
 E ciafcun occhio ch' egli aveva in tefta 
 Pareacome di notte una lumiera 
 O un falo quando fi fa per fella. 
 
 Quand*
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. *l* 
 
 Quand' egli fu appreffb alia riviera 
 Un mezzo miglio quafi o poco manco 
 Scorfi ilia faccia grande, guizza, e nera. 
 
 Egli avea '1 capo di canuti bianco, 
 II manto addorTo rappezzatoed unto, 
 E un volto si crudel non vidi unquanco. 
 
 Non era ancor a quell' anime giunto 
 Quando grido : O dal materno vafo 
 Mandati a me nel dolorofo punto ; 
 
 Per ogni avverfita, per ogni cafo 
 Vi menero per la palude negra 
 Incerti della vita e dell' occafo. 
 
 Pochi verran di voi all' eta integra j 
 Speffo la vita alii mortali io tollo 
 Quand' el!a e piu ficura e piuallegra: 
 
 Dava col remo fuo tra tefta e collo 
 A' moftriche mettea dentro alia * Cocca 
 E forte percotea chi facea crollo. 
 
 Poicia rivolto a me colla gran bocca. 
 Grido : or giunto se' o tu che vivi 
 Veiwto qui come perfona fciocca. 
 
 Minerva a lui : Coftui convien che arrivi 
 Ali' altra npa fottoi remi tui, 
 Nanzi che morte della vita il privi. 
 
 Sulla mia nave non verrete vui, 
 Rifpofe a noi con ira e con difdcgno 
 Che altre volte gia ingannato f ui. 
 
 * Cocca, vicioufly pronounced inftcad of Ccnca, that is, tht 
 bark of Charon, made in the form of that flieli-iilh which the 
 Latins and the Italians call mcha and coma, 
 
 Un
 
 xlvi A HISTORY of Trim 
 
 Un trafife Cerber fuor del nofiVo regno* 
 L' altro la Moglie : Or fimil forza temo, 
 Pero voi non verrete fui mio legno. 
 
 Minerva a lui j Io chiedo ora il tuo Legnoj 
 Ch' io vo' menar coftui, o vecchio lordo, 
 Da quefto baflb al mio Regno benegno. 
 
 Lafciami andar, confumatore ingordo, 
 Che a te non e foggetta quefta vita 
 Per la qual vive Uom fempre per ricordo. 
 
 Ratto ch' egli ebbe efta parola udica 
 Si vergogno ed abbafso le ciglia 
 E fenza piu parlar ne die' la ita. 
 
 Navigato avevam ben gia due miglia 3 
 Ed io mi volfi addietro e vidi ancora 
 Venuta alia riviera altra famiglia. 
 
 Solcando noi per quella morta gora 
 Con gran tempefta tra le morte fchiume 
 Col vento non feguente, ma da prora ; 
 
 Siccome il falfo argento torna in fume 
 Nel ceneraccio che fa 1' Alchimifta, 
 O cera che al foco fi con fume, 
 
 Cos! a' moftri la lor prima villa 
 Vidi mancare ed anche la feconda, 
 Come cofa non ftata o non mai vifta 5 
 
 E poi la terza colla tefta bionda, 
 La quarta e poi la quinta venne meno 
 Navigando oltra per quell* acqua immonda. 
 
 Manco poi *1 fefto di canuti pieno, 
 Sicche di lor rimafe un fol vecchiaccio : 
 Non fette piu, ma un tutci parieno. 
 
 n
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xlvij 
 La nave a riva avea a venir avaccio 
 Quand' ioaddomandaiun gran Vecchione 
 Che ftava a lato a me a braccio a braccio, 
 
 E dim* a lui : Perche '1 Demon Carone 
 Si vi disfa; e perche navigando 
 Sei parti ha tolte alle voftre Perfone ? 
 
 Rifpofe: Quel Signor che 'lcomee '1 quand6 
 Sa della morte, e la vita concede 
 Non mai a patti ma al fuo comando, 
 
 Nel mondo su lunga vita ne diede 5 
 E fummo negligenti alia virtude, 
 E ratti a far le cofe brutte e fede. 
 
 Pero menar ne fa per la palude, 
 E nella ripa eflo crudel Pirata 
 La vita a noi vecchiacci ancora chiudej 
 
 E quand o addietro la nave e tomato, 
 E mena quei che flan dall' altro canto. 
 In quel rifatti fiamo un' altra ftata. 
 
 E ritrovianci in quella riva intanto 
 Ove pria fummo, e li da noi s* afpetta 
 Anche '1 nocchier con pena e con gran pianto. 
 
 Quefta e da Dio a noi giufta vendetta 
 D acche a ben far noftra vita fu tarda 
 Che fempre a morte noftra vita metta: 
 
 La morte non e mai all' Uom bugiarda 
 Che lo minaccia in vifo e fallo accorto, 
 Ma egli chiude gli occhi e non li guardaV 
 
 n
 
 xlviii A HISTORY of tms 
 
 E benche Y Uom fi vegga giunto al porto 
 Degli anni fuoi, e si ne' vizi involto 
 Che prima ilviver che il mal fare e * fcortoi 
 
 In quell* eta che fa canuto il volto 
 Alcun neir operar tan to e difforme 
 Ch' e' non par vecchio ma fanciullo ftolto. 
 
 Ed io lafsu dove fi mangia e dorme 
 Fui gia del Bruno chiamato Francefco, 
 E Fiorentin lafcivo e vecchio enorme. 
 
 Qui fta, or poni un vo di dietro al Vefco^ 
 Pier d' Alborea che in tre Vefcovati 
 Secco negli anni nel peccar fu frefco. 
 
 Noi eravamo al porto gia appreflfati 
 E tutti vennon men fu nella riva, 
 Siccome un Ornbra ed Uomin non mai ftati. 
 
 Iofcefi in terra con la fcorta diva, 
 Ed ella difle a me : fe ben pon mente 
 La vita umana non fi puo dir viva; 
 
 Che folo folo un punto e nel prefente : 
 E nel futur non e ed anco e incerta, 
 E ntl pafifato in lei non e niente. 
 
 E perche quefta cofa fia efperta, 
 Penfa che un oro puro a parte a parte 
 A pocoa poco in piombo fi converta. 
 
 Se un vcnilTe ate a domandarte 
 Tu non potrefti dir che quel fufle oro 
 Dacche dall' effer or fempre fi parte. 
 
 Scorto, contracted from fccnato, nadefiort, cut of, cur- 
 tailed. 
 
 Cos) 
 (I
 
 ITALIANTONGUE. xlix 
 
 Cos! c la vita di tutti coloro 
 Che '1 tempo mena a morte ; e chi ben mira 
 Non diii mai io vivb, ma io moro. 
 
 Che mentre il Cielo iopra voi fi gira 
 Logra la vita^ ed e cagion quel moto 
 Del cafo e qualita che a morte tira. 
 
 In quefto ad ira Caron fu com moto 
 E grido forte : quefta flmil pena 
 Ha Y Uom , ma come a cieco non git e noto. 
 
 Che ilCirl fa il tempo; quel Nocchierche mena 
 L' Uom navigando d' una in altra etade 
 Sino alia ripa Ov' e 1' ultima cena. 
 
 Dal tempo al corpo e ooni inferm'nadej 
 ciochee nel mondo all' Uom molefta 
 Si vien dal Cield o da Natura cade t 
 
 Poi fi pai ti Caron frero e rubefto. 
 
 Nations owe the chief powers and beauties 
 of their languages to their poets ; but few nation, 
 either ancient or modern;; owes fo much to a 
 Tingle genius as the Italian to Lodovico Ariojlo, who 
 flourifhed in that famous period when the Medi- 
 cean family^ the Italian princes^ and even the em- 
 perois and the kings of France encouraged with 
 all forts of liberality the G.eek, Latin, and Italian 
 literature. 
 
 Ariojio had in his youth acquired fuch a repu- 
 tation by his Latin verfes, that having in his ri- 
 per years communicated to his friend cardinal Bern- 
 
 d h
 
 ! A HISTORY op mr 
 
 bo the defign he had formed of writing an Italian 
 epic poem, the cardinal exerted all his powers to 
 diiTuade him from fuch an enterprize, telling him 
 that he certainly would acquire an everlafting 
 name if he continued to beat the lyric track in 
 Latin, but would abfolutely forfeit his poetical fame 
 by attempting this fecond road to immortality. 
 
 But the good luck of Italy would have it that 
 when Ariojio communicated his plan to Bembo he 
 had already written fome cantos of the Orlando, 
 and having read them to his relation and mailer 
 the duke of Ferrara, both the duke and his learned 
 courtiers joined againft Bembo's opinion, fo that 
 Ariojio went on in his work with a fteady refolu- 
 tion ; and in fpite of his political occupations, in 
 which he was involved as long as he lived, and 
 the care of a numerous family which he was ob- v 
 liged to provide for, he was able to finifh it in the 
 fpace of thirteen years, 
 
 The poem was fcarcely multiplied by an edition 
 when the author had the agreeable furprize of 
 hearing all Italy refounding with the praifes 
 given to his performance. The learned be- 
 ftowed upon Ariojio the moft enthufiaftical ap- 
 pellations, and the people mowed him the fame 
 teftimonies of reverence that the Grecians mowed 
 three thoufand years before to their blind bard, by 
 committing the Orlando to memory, and finging 
 
 it
 
 m 
 
 ITALIAN TO NGUE. 11 
 at through the ftreets. So numerous were the 
 beauties found in the poem, that the pen of criti- 
 cifm dared not at that time to point out even 
 fome faults that might have been difcovered in it ; 
 and the Florentines, who, proud of their Dante 's, 
 Fetrarca'S) and Boccaccio' 's 4 ftooped with difficulty 
 to acknowledge that any body could write with 
 Tufcan purity, prefently granted that Ariojio' s lan- 
 guage was mod elegant and inferior to nobody's i 
 nor did his reputation, like a fudden flafli of ligh- 
 tening, furprize, dazzle, and difappear ; as was 
 the cafe at that time with the impious Peter Are- 
 tine, and in the laft century with John Baptiji Ma- 
 rini\ but fun-like it conftantly fhone with an equal 
 juftre, and is as bright in our days, as it was twa 
 hundred years ago* 
 
 Among other ftriking inftartces of the peop!e*S 
 veneration for him, Ariojio had one of a very par- 
 ticular nature* The duke his matter had fent him 
 governor of the Garfagnana, a province on the 
 Appenine, whofe inhabitants, feizing the opportu- 
 nity of the general turbulencies that over-ran Ita* 
 ly at that time*, paid but little obedience to their 
 fovereign. Ariojio took his refidence in a forti- 
 fied caftle, from which it was imprudent to ftep 
 out wiihout guard Sj as the whole neighbourhood 
 was fwarmingwith out-laws, fmugglers, and ban- 
 ditti, who, after having committed the mod enor* 
 mous excefifes all around, retired forfhelter againft 
 d 2 juftice
 
 lii A HISTORY of the 
 
 juftice amidft thofe rocks and cliffs. Ariojio one 
 morning happened to take a walk without the 
 cattle in his night-gown, and in a fit of thought 
 forgot himfelf fo much that ftep after ftep he 
 found himfelf very far from his habitation, and 
 furrounded on a fudden by a troop of thofe def- 
 perados, who certainly would have ill ufed and 
 perhaps murdered him, had not his face been 
 known by one of the gang, who informing his 
 comrades that this wasSignor^n'0/0, the chief of 
 the banditti add reffed him with intrepid gallantry, 
 and told him, that fince he was the author of the 
 Orlando Furiofo, he might be fure none of the 
 company would injure him, but would fee him, 
 on the contrary, fafe back to the caftle ; and fo 
 they did, entertaining him all along the way 
 with the various excellencies they had difcovered 
 in his poem, and bellowing upon it the moll rap- 
 turous praifes. A very rare proof of the irrefiitible 
 powers of poetry, and a noble comment on the 
 Fables of Orpheus and Amphion, who drew wild 
 beads, and raifed walls, with the inchanting found 
 of their lyres. 
 
 It would take too much room to expatiate on 
 each particular excellence or defct of this poem, 
 or to fix the degree of contempt the French critics 
 in general have deferved, whenever they fpoke of 
 Ariojio. Thofe wretched judges of epic poetry, 
 have had the good luck of being conftantly ab- 
 
 furd,
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. Mi 
 
 furd, whenever they fpoke either in praife or 
 blame of mefler Lodovico ; and the pitiful deci- 
 fions they have uttered, whenever they have com- 
 pared our Orlando to our Gerufalemme, prove their 
 perfect ignorance of our language, and epic poe- 
 try, as well as the impudence of their temper. But 
 this fubject would lead me too far beyond the li- 
 mits I have prefcribed to thisdiffertation. Perhaps 
 I mail hereafter fully difcufs this matter in a treatife 
 for this purpofe, and expofe them to the ridicule 
 they deferve for their temerity on this head. 
 Mean while let the Englifh reader take my word 
 for it, that Ariofto is the greateft poet that my po- 
 etical country ever produced ; for a fpecimen of 
 his poetry, I feled that part of the 23d canto in 
 which he defcribes his hero turning mad out of 
 love and jealoufy. 
 
 Volgendofi ivi intorno vide fcritti 
 Molti arbofcelli in full' ombrofa riva : 
 Tofto che fermi v' ebbe gli occhi e fitti 
 Conobbe effer di man della fua Diva. 
 Era quefto un de' luoghi gia defcritti 
 Dove fovente conMedor veniva 
 Da cafa del Paftore indi vicina 
 La bella Donna del Catai Regina. 
 
 Angelica e Medor con cento nodi 
 
 Legati infieme e in cento luoghi vede : 
 
 Quante lettere fon tanti fon chiodi 
 
 Co i quali il core Amor gli punge e flede. 
 
 d 3 Va
 
 liv A H I S TO R Y of the 
 
 Va col penfier cercando in milk modi 
 Non crederquel che a fuo difpetto eicrede* 
 Ch' altra Angelica fia crederfi sforza 
 Ch' abbia fcritto il fuo nome in quella fcorza, 
 Poi dice : Conofc* io pur quelle note ? 
 Di tali io n* ho tante vedute e lette : 
 Finger quefto Medoro ella fi puote : 
 porfe che a me quefto cognome rnette. 
 Con tali opinion dal ver rimote 
 Ufando fraude a fe medefmo ftette 
 Nella fperanza il mal contento Orlando 
 Che fi feppe a fe fteflb ir procacciando. 
 Ma fempre piu raccende e piu rinnova 
 Quanto piu lpegner cerca il rio fofpetto, 
 Come i* incauto Augel che fi ritrova 
 In ragna o in vifco aver dato di petto, 
 Che piu che batte I' ale e piu fi prova 
 Di difbrigar piii vi fi lega ftretto. 
 Orlando viene ove s' incurva il montc 
 A guifa d' arco in fulla chiara fonte. 
 Aveano in full* entrata il loco adorno 
 Co piedi ftorti edere e viti errand: 
 Quivi folcano al piucocente giorno 
 Stare abbracciati i due felici Amanti. 
 V aveano i nomi lor dentro e d' intornd 
 Piu che in altro de' luoghi circoftanti 
 Scritti qual con carbone equal con gefib, 
 E qual con punce di coltegli impreffo. 
 
 u
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. lr 
 
 II mefto Conte appie' quivi difcefe, 
 E vide in full' entrata della grotta 
 Parole afiai che di fua man diftefe 
 Medoro avea che parean fcritte allotta. 
 Del gran piacer che in quella grotta prefe 
 Quefta fentenza in verfi era ridotta : 
 Che fuffe colta in la fua lingua io penfo 
 Ed era nella noftra tale il fenfo. 
 
 Liete piante,verdi erbe, e limpid* acque, 
 Spelonca opaca e di fredd* ombre grata, 
 Dove la bella Angelica che nacque 
 Di Galafron, da mold in vano amata, 
 SpelTo nelle mie braccie nuda giacque, 
 Delia comodita che qui m* e data 
 Io povero Medor ricompenfarvi 
 W altro non pofifo che d* ognor lodarvi, 
 
 E di pregare ogni Signore amante, 
 E Cavalieri, e Damigelle, e ognuna 
 Perfona o Paefana, o Viandante 
 Che qui fua volonta meni o fortuna, [ante 
 Che all* erbe all* ombra all' antro al rio alle pi- 
 Dica : benigno abbiate e fole e luna, 
 E delle Ninfe il Coro che proveggia 
 Che non conduca a voi paftor mai greggia. 
 
 Erafcrittoin arabicoche il Conte 
 Intendea cosi ben come latino : 
 Fra moke lingue e molte che avea pronte 
 Prontiffima avea quella il Paladino, 
 E gli fchivo piu vote e danni ed onte 
 Che ii trovo fra il popol faracino ^ 
 
 d 4 Ma
 
 Ivr A HISTORY op the 
 
 Ma non fi vanti fe gia n* cbbe frutto 
 Che un danno or n' ha che puo fcontargli il tutto. 
 Tre volte e quattro e fei leffc lo fcritto 
 QgcIIo infchce, e pur ccrcando in vano 
 C:x non vi foife quel che r* era fcritto 
 E fempre lo vedea piu chiaro e piano, 
 Ed ogni volta in mezzo al petto afflitto 
 Stripgerfi il corfentia con fredda mano ; 
 Rimafe alfin con gli occhi e con la mente 
 Fitti n>] i "fib al iaffo indifferente. 
 Fu alio a per ufcir del fentimento 
 Si tucto in preda del dolor fi lafia. 
 Credete a chi n* ha faito efperimento 
 Che queflo e il duo! che tutti gli alrri pafTa. 
 Caduto gli era fopra il petto il memo, 
 La fronre priva di baldanza e bafla, 
 Ne pote' avere, il duol 1' occupo tanto, 
 Alle querele voce, umore al pianto. 
 L' impetuofa doglia entro rimafe 
 
 Che volea tu-tta ufcir con troppa fretta : 
 Cosi veggiam reflar 1' acqua ncl vafe 
 Che largo il ventre e la bocca abbia ftretta, 
 Che nel voltar che fi fa infu la bafe 
 L' umor che vorria ufcir tanto s' affretta 
 E nell' angufta via tanto s" intrica 
 Che a goccia a geccia fuori efce a fatica. 
 Pur ritorna in fe a 'qua i to e penfa come 
 Pofla efier che non fia la cofa vera, 
 Che vrglia alcun cosi intamare il nome 
 Dtlla fua Donna, e crede e brama e fpera j 
 
 O
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. lvii 
 O gravar lui d' infopportabil fomq^ 
 Tanto di gelofia che fe ne pera, 
 Ed abbia quel, fia chi fi voglia ftato, 
 Molto la man di lei bene imitate 
 
 In gosi poca in cosi debol fpeme 
 
 Sveglia gli fpirti e li rinfranca un poco, 
 Indi al fuo Brigliadoro il doflb preme 
 Dando gia il fole alia forella loco ; 
 Ne molto va che dalle vie fupreme 
 De' tetti ufcir vede i vapor del foco, 
 Sente caniabbajar, muggire armento, 
 Viene alia villa, e piglia allogiamento. 
 
 Languido fmonta e lafcia Brigliadoro 
 A un difcreto Garzon che n' abbia cura : 
 Altri il difarma, altri gli fproni d' oro 
 Gli leva, altri a forbir va V armatura. 
 Era quefta la cafa ove Medoro 
 Giacque ferito e v'ebbe alta ventura: 
 Colcarfi Orlando e non cenardomanda, 
 Di dolor fazioe non d* altra vivanda. 
 
 Quanto piu cerca ritrovar quiete 
 Tanto vi trova piu travaglio e pena 
 Che dell' odiato fcritto ogni parete 
 Ogn' ufcioogni fineftra vede piena. 
 Chieder ne vuol, poi tien le labbra chete 
 Che teme non fi far troppo ferena 
 Troppo chiara la cofa che di nebbia 
 Cerca offufcar perche men nuocer debbia. 
 
 Ma
 
 lviii A HISTORY of thb 
 
 Ma non gli giova ufar fraude a fe fteflb 
 Che fenza domandarne e chi nc parla 
 II Paftor, che lo vede cosi oppreflb 
 Da fua triftizia e che vorria levarla, 
 1/ Iftoria nota a fe che dicea fpeflb 
 Di que' du' Amanti a chi volea afcokarU 
 Che a molti dilettevole fu a udire, 
 Incomincio fenza rifpetto a dire. 
 
 Com' eflb a i preghi d' Angelica bella 
 Portato aveaMedoro alia fua villa 
 Ch' era ferito gravemente e ch' ella 
 Curo la piaga e in pochi di guarilla, 
 Ma che nel cor d' una maggior di quella 
 Lei feri Amore, e di poca fcintilla 
 Le acccfe tanto e si cocente foco 
 Che n* ardea tutta e non trovava loco, 
 E fenza aver rifpetto ch'elia fuffe 
 
 Figlia del mag-giorRe ch' abbia il Ievante 
 Da troppo amor coftretta fi condufTe 
 A farfi moglie d' un povero fante. 
 AH' ultimo la ftoriafi riduffe 
 Che 'J Paftor fe portarla gemma inante 
 Ch' alia fua dipartenza per mercede 
 Del buono Albergo Angelica Je diede. 
 
 Quefta conclufion fu li fecure 
 
 Che il capo a un colpo gli levo dal coIIq 
 Poiche d' inumerabil baititure 
 Si vide il manigoldo Amor fatollo. 
 Celar fi ftudia il duolo Orlando, e pure 
 Quel gli fa forza e male afconder puollo 
 
 Per
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE; Cx 
 
 Per lacrime e fofpir da bocca ed occhi 
 Convien, voglia o non voglia, alfin che fcocchi^ 
 Poiche allargare il freno al dolor puote 
 Che refta folo e fenza alcun rifpetto, 
 Giu dagli occhi rigando per le goce 
 Sparge un fiume di lagrime ful petto j 
 Sofpira e geme e va con fpefTe rote 
 Di qua di la tutto cercando il letto, 
 E piu duro che un laflb e piu pungente 
 Che fe fuffe d' ortica fe lo fente. 
 
 In tanto afpro travaglio gli foccorre 
 Che nel medefmo letto in cui giaceva 
 L* ingrata Donna venutafi a porre 
 Col fuo Drudo piu volte eiTer doveva : 
 Non altramente or quella piuma abborre 
 Ne con minor preftezza fe ne leva 
 Che dell* erba il villan che s*era meflb 
 Per chiuder gli occhi e veggail ferpeappreflb* 
 
 Quel letto quella cafa e quel Paftore 
 Immantinente in tanto odio gli cafca 
 Che fenza afpettar luna o che V alborc 
 Che va dinanzi al nuovo giornonafca 
 Piglia T arme e '1 deftriero ed efce fuore 
 Per mezzo il bofco alia piu fcura frafca 
 E quando poi gli e awifo d* efler folo 
 Con pianti ed urJi apre le porte al duolo, 
 
 Di pianger mai, mai di gqdar non refta 
 Ne la notte re '1 di fi da mai pace : 
 Fugge Cittadi e Borghi ; alia forefta 
 Sul terren nudo al difcoperto giace.
 
 lx A HISTORY of the 
 
 Di fe fi maraviglia che abbia in tefta 
 Una fontana d' acqua si vivace 
 E come fofpirar poffa mai tanto, 
 E dice fpefib a fe cosi nel pianto. 
 
 Quefte non Ton piu Iagrime che fuore 
 Stillo dagli occhi con si Jarga vena : 
 Non fuppliron le Iagrime al dolore, 
 Finir che a mezzo era il dolore appena. 
 Dal fuoco fpinto ora il vitale umore 
 Fugge per quella via che agli occhi mena, 
 Ed e quel che fi verfa, e trarra infieme 
 II dolore e la vita all' ore eftreme. 
 
 Quefliche indizio fan del mio tormento 
 Sofpir non fono ne i fofpir fon tali : 
 Quelli han tregua talvolta ; io mai non fento 
 Che '1 chiufo petto mai fua pena efali : 
 Amor che m' arde il cor fa quefto vento 
 Mentre dibatte intorno al foco 1' ali : 
 Amor con che miracolo lo fai 
 Che in foco il tenghi e nol confumi mai ? 
 
 Non fon non fono io quel che pajo in vifo, 
 Quel ch' era Orlando e morto ed e fotterra ; 
 La fua Donna ingratiflima 1' ha uccifo 
 Si mancando di fe gli ha fatto guerra : 
 Io fon lo fpirto fuo da lui divifo 
 Che in quefto inferno tormentandofi erra 
 Perche con T ombra fia che fola avvanza 
 Efempio a chi in amor pone fperanza. 
 
 Pel
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. ixi 
 
 Pel bofco erro tutta la notte il Conte 
 E alo'fpuntar della diurna Gamma 
 Lo torno '1 fuo deftin fopra la fonte 
 Dove Medoro ifculfe 1' epigramma. 
 Veder 1 J ingiuria fua fcritta nel monte 
 L* accefe si che in lui non refto dramma . 
 Che non foffe odio rabbia ira e furore. 
 Ne piu indugio che traffe il brando fuore. 
 
 Taglio lo fcritto e '1 faffo e infino al cielo 
 A volo alzar fe le minute fchegge : 
 Infelice quell' antro e quello ftelo 
 In cui Medoro e Angelica (i legge : 
 Cos! reftar quel di ch' ombra ne gelo 
 A Paftor mai non daran piii ne a gregge, 
 E quella fonte gia si chiara e pura 
 Da cotanta ira fu poco fecura. 
 
 Che rami e ceppi e tronchi e fafli e zolle 
 Nonceffo di gittar nellebell' onde 
 Finche da fommo ad imo si turbolle 
 Che non furo mai piu chiare ne monde, 
 E flanco alfinee alfin di fudor molle 
 Poiche la lena vinta non rifponde 
 Alio fdegno al grave odio all* ardente ira 
 Cade ful pratoe verfo il ciel fofpira. 
 
 Afflitto e ftanco alfin cade nell' erba 
 
 E ficca gli occhi al Cielo e non fa motto: 
 Senza cibo o dormir cosi fi ferba 
 Che il iole efce tre volte e torna fotto. 
 Di crefcer non ceffo la pena acerba 
 Che fuor del fenno alfin 1" ebbc condotto : 
 
 6 II
 
 lxii A HISTORY or tSz 
 
 II quarto di da gran furor commoflb 
 E maglie e piaftre fi ftraccio d* addofib. 
 Qui riman 1* elmo e la riman lo fcudo, 
 Lontan gli arnefi e piu lontan 1' ufbergo ; 
 L* arme fue tutte in fomma vi concludo 
 Avean pel bofco differente albergo, 
 E' poi fi fquarcio i panni e moftro ignudo 
 L' ifpido ventre e tutto il petto e il tergo 
 E comincio la gran follia si orrenda 
 Che della piu non fara mai chi intenda. 
 
 Ariojto had a prodigious number of contempo- 
 raries that increafed and beautified the Italian 
 tongue with their works ; amongft whom Anni- 
 hale Caro is perhaps the beft model of familiar writ- 
 ing we have , Claudio Tolomei, Franc efco Maria 
 Molza, Giangiorgio Tri/fino the author of the Ita- 
 lia Liberate, an ep>c poem in blank verfe, Nicofo 
 Macchiavelloy Bernardo Segni, Giacomo Bonfadio^ 
 Andrea Navagero, Agojiino Beaziano, Trifon Gabri- 
 eli, Benedetto Varchi, Bernardo Tajfo, the father of 
 the famous Tcrquato, Jacopo Sannazaro, Sperone 
 Speroni, Baldajfare Cafiiglione % Giovanni Guidicci- 
 cni, Lodovico Cajlelvetro, Btrardino Rota, Giovanni 
 della Cafa, and others ; befides fome ladies whofe 
 performances are ftill the admiration of our wits,, 
 efpecially thofe of Veronica da Gambara, Vittoria 
 Colonna, Laura Battiferra, Tullia Aragona, and 
 Gafpara Stapipa. 
 
 The
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. Ixiii 
 
 The fucceeding generation of writers was much 
 inferior to that of Ariofio in number, as well as in 
 language. The Italians weary of fimplicity which 
 is the chief characteriftic of their tongue, began to 
 forfake the old road, and feek for a new one. That 
 interval neverthelefs produced TorquatoTaffbyV/hofc 
 Gerufalemme Liberate will laft as long as any per- 
 formance in Italian. 
 
 Next ArioJio> Taffo was the greatefi: poetical ge- 
 nius modern Italy ever'admired. But if he was 
 inferior to him as to knowledge of language, va- 
 riety of invention, rapidity of expreflion, picture 
 of manners, and general powers of delighting, on 
 the other hand he never defiled any of his pages 
 with immodeft or vulgar talk, and his ftile is con- 
 ftantly nervous and perfpicuous, his thoughts fub- 
 Hme, his characters ftriking, his defcriptions pictu- 
 refque, and his learning unbounded ; no wonder 
 therefore if fome of his countrymen ftill continue 
 to fet him higher than his rival, as he likewife fpoke 
 of religion with a truly chriftian dignity, and often 
 mowed that no theme whatfbever is fo fufceptible 
 of poetical beauties as the expofition of the doc- 
 trine contained in the facred books; 
 
 Foreigner?, and efpecially the French, general- 
 ly coincide with the opinion of the fmalier num- 
 ber of our criticks, and boldly give the preference, 
 as
 
 jxiv A HISTORY 6f the 
 
 as I took notice above, to Tajjb, whenever they 
 compare him with Ariofto. But though I declare 
 myfelf fo warm an admirer of the Jerufakm as to 
 prefer it to the epic performances of Dante, Pulci, 
 and Bojardoi yet 1 wifh that foreigners for the fake 
 of their literary honour would proceed with a little 
 more caution when they difcourfe on fuch a fub- 
 ject, and be lefs confident of their knowledge of 
 our tongue and poetry ; becaufe though it is true 
 that on fome points Tafo is fuperior to his rival ; 
 yet if he has on the whole fewer faults, they muft 
 be perfuaded that he has alfo fewer perfections. 
 But as 1 faid above I (hall perhaps hereafter have 
 occafion to write an Englifh treatife entirely on this 
 fubject, in which I hope I {hall prove paft contra- 
 diction, that a nation cannot in point of literature 
 conflantly deceive themfelves for centuries, and that 
 foreigners cannot without incurring the charge of 
 impertinence think themfelves better qualified than 
 any native to fix the rank of our authors, as every 
 body knows that Italy can boaft of men verfed in 
 dead languages, as well as the moft eminent of 
 other nations, and they muft be fuppofed to under- 
 ftand their own far better, and confequently more 
 able to judge of the productions of their own foil. 
 
 Fajfo's family was one of the nobleft in Lom- 
 bardy, and his father was as confpicuous for his 
 parts as for his misfortunes i but his fon furpafTec 
 him in both, and having forfeited the frrendlhip of 
 
 his
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. IxV 
 
 liis matter the duke of Ferrara, was obliged after 
 a long and fhameful imprifonment to wander a 
 while through many parts of Italy, rather in the 
 garb of a beggar than in the drefs of a gentleman^ 
 I have feen an edition of the firft cantos of his po- 
 em printed in his life-time, in the preface of which 
 this remarkable anecdote is related. Tajjo one day 
 arrived a foot and mod wretchedly equipped at one 
 of the gates of Turin. The guards would not let 
 him enter the town, becaufe inftead of producing 
 a paffport, he could give no other account of him- 
 felf but that be was Tajfo the Poet. He was there- 
 fore obliged to turn back, and go to a neighbour- 
 ing convent of capuchins, to beg for forhe food as 
 he wasalmoft ftarved to death; But he hadfcarce- 
 ly began to eat when the duke of Savoy, having 
 been cafually informed of what had pafkd at the 
 gate, fent a coach and fix to fetch the noble pil- 
 grim at the capuchins, received him with the 
 mod generous kindnefs, and after having feafted 
 him for fome days put him in a condition to fol- 
 low his journey with more decency towards Rome* 
 
 It is probable that fuch a reception from one of 
 the greateft heroes of that age, had a very good 
 effect on the mind of TaJJb, not only much dis- 
 turbed by the perverfe animofity of the Academi- 
 cians della Crufca againft him, but almoft di 
 tracked by a hopelefs love $ yet he died foon after 
 in Rome, to the great regret of his very antago- 
 e nifts,
 
 Ixvi A HISTORY or the 
 
 nifts, who then adopted his works amongfl the 
 models of Itaiianlanguage, for a fpecimen of which 
 
 I tranfcnbe from the fecond canto the eloquent 
 fpeech of Alete, the ambaflfador of the king of E- 
 gypt, to Goffredo the leader of the chriftran army 
 to the fiege of Jerafalem. 
 
 O degno fol cui d' ubbidire or degni 
 Quefta adunanza di famofi Eroi 
 Che per 1' addietro ancor le palme e i regni 
 Da te conobbe e da' configli tuoi, 
 
 II nome tuo, che non riman tra i fegni 
 D' Alcide, ormai rifuona anco tra noi : 
 E la Fama d' Egitto in ogni parte 
 Del tuo valor chiare novelle ha fparte. 
 
 Ne v' e fra tanti alcun che non le afcolte 
 Com' egti fuol le maraviglie eftreme ; 
 Ma dal mio Re con iftupore accolte 
 Sono non fol ma con dilerto infieme, 
 E s' appaga in narrarle anco piu volte 
 Amando in te c;6 ch' altri ammira e teme : 
 Ama ii valore e volontario elegge 
 ,Teco unirfi d' amor fe non di legge. 
 
 Da si bella cagion dunque fofpinto 
 1/ amicizia e la pace a te richiede, 
 E '1 mezzo onde 1* un refti ail* altro avvirtto 
 Sia la virtu s' effer puo non la fede ; 
 Ma perche intefo avea che t' eri accinto 
 A difcacciar 1* amico fuo di fede, 
 
 3 Vol!
 
 ITALIANTONGUE. Ixvii 
 
 Voile pria ch' altro male inde feguifle 
 Che a ce la mente fua per noi s' aprifie. 
 
 E la fua mente e tal che fe appagarti t 
 
 Vorrai di quanto hai fatto in guerra tuo, 
 Ne Giudea moleftar ne 1' ahre parti 
 Che ricopre il favor del Regno fuo, 
 Ei promette all' incontro afficurarti 
 II non ben fermo ftato ; e fe voi duo 
 Sarete uniti, or quando i Turchi e i Perfi 
 Potranno unqua fperar di riaverfi ? 
 
 Signor, grancofe in picciol tempo hai fatte 
 Che lunga eta porre in obblio non puote: 
 Eferciti, Citta, vinti e disfatte, 
 Superati difagi, e ftragi ignote ; 
 Sicche al grido o fmarrite o ftupefatte 
 Son le Provincie intorno e le remote ; 
 E febbene acquiftar puoi novi imperi 
 Acquiftar nova gloria indarno fperi. 
 
 Giunta e tua gloria al fommo e per lo innanzi 
 Fuggir le dubbie guerre a te conviene, 
 Ch' ove tu vinca fol di ftato avvanzi 
 Ne tua gloria maggior quindi diviene ; 
 Ma 1' Imperio acquiftato e prefo dianzi 
 E T onor perdi fe '1 contrario awiene: 
 Ben gioco e di fortuna audace e ftolto 
 Por contra il poco e incerto il certo e il molto* 
 
 Ma il configlio di tal cui forfe pefa 
 Ch' altri gli acquifti a lungo andar conferve, 
 
 pi E
 
 Ixviii A HrSTORYor t* 
 
 E 1' aver fempre vinto in ogni imprefa, 
 E quella vogiia natural che ferve 
 E fempre e piu ne' cor piu grand i accef* 
 D* aver le genti tributarie e ferve, 
 Faran per avventura a te la pace 
 Fuggir piu che la guerra ahri non face, 
 
 T* eforterannoa feguitar la ftrada 
 Che t r e dal Fato largamente aperta 
 A non depor quella famofa fpada 
 Al cui valore ognr vitroria e certa, 
 Finche la legge di Macon non cada, 
 Finche 1* Afi3 per te non fia deferta r 
 Dolci folead udire edolci inganni 
 Grid' efcon poi fovente eftremi dannL 
 
 Ma fe animofita gli occhi non benda 
 Ne il Tume ofcura in te della ragione, 
 Scorgerai ch* ove tu la guerra prenda 
 Haidi temernondi fperar ragione, 
 Che fortuna quaggiu varia a vicenda 
 Mandandoci venture or trifte or buowe, 
 Ed a' voli troppo alti e repentini 
 Sogliono i precipizi effer vicini. 
 
 Dimmi, fe a' danni tuoi 1" Egitto move 
 D* oro e d' armi potente e di configlio, 
 E fe avvien che la guerra anco rinnove 
 II Perfo, il Turco, e di Cafiano il Figlio, 
 Quai forze opporre a si gran furia, edove 
 Ritrovar potrai fcampo al tuo periglio ? 
 T' affida forfe il Re malvagio Greco 
 il qual da' lacri patti unito e teco ? 
 
 8 La
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. lxix 
 
 La fede greca a chi non e palefe ? 
 Tuda un foi tradimento ogn' altro impara, 
 Anzi da millepoiehe milleha tefe 
 Infidie a te la gente infida avara : 
 Dunque chi dianzi ll paffoa*voioontefe 
 Per voi la vita efporre or fi prepara ? 
 Chi le vie, che comuni a tutti fono 
 Nego, del proprio fangue or fara dono ? 
 
 Ma forfe hai tu ripofta ogni tua fperrie 
 In quelle fquadre ond' ora cinto fiedi : 
 Quei che fparfi vincefti, uniti infieme 
 Di vincer anco agevolmemecredi 
 Sebben Ton le tue (chiere or moko fceme 
 Tra le guerre e i difagi e tu tel vedi ; 
 Sebben nuovo Nemico a te s' accrefce 
 E co' i Perfi e co Turchi Egizi mefce* 
 
 Or quando pur eftimi effer fatale 
 Che vincer non ti pofla il ferro mai 
 Siati conceffo e fiafi appunto tale 
 II decreto del Gel qual tu tel fait 
 Vinceratti la fame: a quefto male 
 Che rifugio perDio che fchermoavrai? 
 Vibra contra coftd la lancia, e ftringi 
 La fpada, e la vittoria anco ti fingi. 
 
 Ogni campo d' intorno arfo e diftrutto 
 Ha la provida man degli abitanti, 
 E in chiufe mura e in alte torri il frutto 
 Rlpofto al tuo venir piu giorni avanti: 
 Tu che ardico fin qui ti fei condutto 
 Onde fperi nutrir cavalli e fanti ? 
 
 e i Dirai:
 
 lxx A H I S TO R Y of the 
 
 Dirai : L' Armatain mar cura ne premie : 
 Da' vcnti dunque il viver tuo dipende ? 
 
 Comanda forfe tua fortuna a i vend 
 E li awince a fua voglia e li diflega ? 
 II mar che a' preghi e fordo ed a i lamenti 
 Te folo udendo al tuo voler fi piega ? 
 O non potranno pur le noflregenti 
 E le Perfe e le Turche unite in lega 
 Cos! potente armata in un raccorre 
 Che a quefti legni tuoi fi pofTa opporre ? 
 
 Doppia vittoria a te Signor bifogna 
 S'hai dell imprefa a riportar 1* onore: 
 Una perdita fola alta vergogna 
 Puo cagionartiedanno anco maggiore, 
 Ch' ove 1* noftra Armata in rotta pogna 
 La tua qui poi di fame $1 campo muore, 
 E fe tu fei perdente indarno poi 
 Saran vittoriofi i legni tuoi. 
 
 Ora fe in tale ftato anco rifiuti 
 Col gran Re dell' Egitto e pace e tregua, 
 Diafi licenza al ver, 1* altre v'irtuti 
 Qtiefto configlio tuo non bene adegua ; 
 Ma voglia il Ciel che il tuo penfier fi muti 
 Se a guerra e volto e che il contrario fegua, 
 Sicche 1' Afia refpiri omai da lutti 
 E goda tu della vittoria i frutti. 
 
 Ne Voi che del periglioe degli afFanni 
 E della gloria a lui fiete conforti 
 11 favor di fortuna or tanto inganni 
 Che nuove guerre a provocar v' eforti - 9 
 
 Ma
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, lxxl 
 Ma qual Nocchier che da i marini inganni 
 Ridutti ha i legoi a i dcfiati porti 
 Raccor dovrefte ormai Ie fparfe vele 
 Ne fidarvi di nuovo al mar crudele. 
 
 In Tap's life-time fo few advantageous ad- 
 ditions were made to our language by his contem- 
 porary wits, that I can as well pafs them over in 
 filcnce. I could almoftdo the fame with thofe that 
 flouriihed in the next haif century, were not Chiar 
 brera, Bracciolini, Tajjoni and Lipp amongft 
 them. 
 
 Gabriel Cbiabr era attempted in his earlier youth 
 to obtain the epic laurel, but perceiving that his 
 countrymen could not be brought to beftow any 
 great encomiums on his Amadeide turned his fteps 
 to the lytic track, and abandoning the road traced 
 fome centuries before by Petrarch and his follow- 
 ers, took Pindar and Anacreon for his models, 
 and acquired much reputation both with his fer- 
 vid and his foft meafures. 
 
 Francefco Bracciolini amongft other things, wric 
 two epic poems, one facred intitled, La crocerac- 
 quifiata\ the other burleique, intitled, Lo Schema 
 degli Dei, which gave him a right to be numbered 
 .amongft the enlargers, but not the embelJidiers 
 of our language. 
 
 . C 4 Alef-
 
 Ixxti A HISTORY of the 
 
 Alejandro Tajfoni is known throughout Europe 
 for his burlefque epic poem, intitled, La Seccbia. 
 rapita, in which there are fome very good poetical 
 paffages, and our language has received fome adr 
 fiitional beauty by it. 
 
 Lorenzo Lippi wrote a burlefque epic poena, in- 
 titled Malmantile, in which he collected a vaft num- 
 ber of the proverbs and vulgar fayings moil com- 
 mon amongft the low people of Tufcany. Tho' 
 his performance be very ingenious if we have re? 
 gard to the invention of it, yet it is more fo if we 
 confider that he had the art of bringing together 
 numberlefs proverbs on every purpofe without 
 ever falling into affectation, or fwervipg from h^s 
 fubjecl;. 
 
 I tranfcribe no part of Bracciolini ' SyTaffoni's and 
 &ppi's poems, becaule I have them not amongft 
 my books ; but the following Anacreontical fong 
 mall ferve for a fpecimen olChialrera\ poetry an4 
 language. 
 
 Del mio Sol fon ricciutegli 
 I capegli, 
 
 Non biondetti ma brunettj : 
 Son due rofe vermigliuzze 
 Le gotuzze, 
 Le due Jabbra rubinetti, 
 
 Ma
 
 ITALIAN TONGUt * 
 
 ^fa dal di ch' io le mirai 
 
 Sin qui mai 
 
 Mai non cbbiora tranquilla 
 
 Che d' amor non mifc Amore 
 
 In quel core 
 
 Neppur picciola favilla, 
 Laffo me, quand' io m' accefi 
 
 Dire intefi 
 
 Ch* egli altrui non affliggea ; 
 
 Ma che tutto era fuo foco 
 
 Rifo e gioco 
 
 E ch' ei nacque d* una Dea. 
 ^Jon fu Deafua Geni trice 
 
 Com' Uom dke ; 
 
 Nacque in mar di qualche (cogjio, 
 
 Ed apprefe in quelle fpume 
 
 II coftume 
 
 Di donar pena e cordoglkv 
 Ben e ver ch' ei pargoleggia, 
 
 Ch' ei vezzeggia 
 
 Graziofo Fanciulletto ; 
 
 Ma cosi pargoleggiando 
 
 Vezzeggiando 
 
 Non ci lafcia core in petto; 
 Oh qual' ira ! oh quale fdegno I 
 
 Mi fa fegno 
 
 Ch' io non dica, e mi minaccia j 
 
 Viperetta, ferpentello, 
 
 Pragoncello, 
 
 fj^al ragion yuol ch 5 io mi taccia ? 
 
 Nor*
 
 lxr A HISTORY of thi 
 
 Non fai tu che gravi affanni 
 Per tant* anni 
 Ho fofferto in feguitarti ? 
 E che ? Dunque lagrimofo, 
 Dolorofo, 
 Angofciofo ho da lodarti ? 
 
 I have faid tnat the immediate Succeffors of 
 Terquato Tajfo made no advantageous additi- 
 ons to our language : but this happened rather 
 for want of judgment than of genius in many of 
 them. 'Tajfo had even an immediate fucceffor, 
 who for vaftnefs of imagination, command of lan- 
 guage, and poetical powers, would perhaps have 
 furpafifed him, an'd equalled Ariojlo, had he not, 
 out of a foolifh fondnefs for novelty, deviated from 
 the right track of common fenfe. 
 
 This man was Giambattijia Marini, whofe fur- 
 prifing facility in verification filled Italy in a few 
 years with his epic, lyric, fatirical, and paftoral 
 works, with which he fo much dazzled the eyes of 
 his countrymen as made them almoft totally 
 Forget their old writers ; and his exuberant fancy 
 expanding itfelf into bold metaphors and wild ex- 
 aggerations intirely corrupted, with aftonifhing 
 rapidity, the tafle of his contemporaneous au- 
 thors and readers, fo that many of them, improv- 
 ing extravagance with extravagance, and engraft- 
 ig nonfenfe upon nonfenle, pubiiihed innume- 
 rable 
 i
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE; tav 
 
 fable books big with bombafiick and far-fetched 
 thoughts, clad with tumorous and unnatural Ian* 
 guage. 
 
 That unhappy century was towards the end of 
 it, and on the beginning of this branded by the 
 Italians with the difhonourable appellation ofCat- 
 tivo fecolo della Lingua^ in oppofition to the age of 
 Petrarch, honoured as I faid wich chat of Buon fe- 
 colo della Lingua. Nor can we give a more op- 
 probrious character to a bad modern fcribbler, 
 than by calling him un Secentijia, that is a writer 
 like thofe of the feventeenth century. 
 
 About the end of the laft and the beginning of 
 this prefent age, Francefco Redi, the famous phy- 
 fician, Alejandro Marchetti, Lorenzo Magalotti % 
 Benedetto Menzini, Lorenzo Bellini, Antonmaria 
 Salvini, and fome other Tufcans deftroyed at lalfc 
 the charm of corruption, and brought their coun- 
 trymen again wiihin fight of nature. 
 
 It is true that although tafte was at laft reftored 
 amongfl: us, none of thofe poets or profatori who 
 have flourilhed fince the luerary reformation in 
 Italy have deferved to be compared with Dante, 
 Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the other fathers or im- 
 provers of our tongue ; yet none likewife have funk 
 fo low as to merit a rank amongft the corrupters 
 pf it ; and it is to be hoped that the work:* ol Fra 
 
 Giro
 
 Jxxvi A HISTORY or this 
 Ciro di Pers, Claudio Achillini^ Luca Ajjarino, Gio- 
 vanni Ciampoli, Girolamo Preti, Antonio Abati and 
 the other imitators and improvers of the marinian 
 corruption, will be totally loft and forgotten in a 
 fhort time. 
 
 Thus have I traced our language ftep after ftep 
 from the twelfth century down to ourprefent times. 
 To give an account of our living writers to 
 an Englishman is needlefs, as the beft amongft 
 them have but followed the good path pointed out 
 to them by their earlieft predeceffors and made al- 
 moft no advance towards the enlarging the com- 
 pafs of our tongue, though upon the whole it is 
 my opinion, that never To much real knowledge 
 was fpread amongft the Italians as at preient. 
 
 I cannot neverthelefs pafs in fiience two living 
 poets, who have (truck out two new tracks thro' 
 the vaft continent of literature. I cannot refill 
 the impulfes of admiration for Pietro Metafiajio 
 and the calls of friend fhip for Giancarlo Pafferoni, 
 who have not only added to the fplendor of our 
 poetry, but what is flill more commendable have 
 interfperfed their works with the dogms of the 
 ftricteft morality, an ornament, as I took notice 
 before, too much neglected by the generality of 
 our authors of the three good ages of our lan- 
 guage.
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, lxxvii 
 
 Metajlafw has publifhed many operas, oratorios, 
 cantatas, and fongs, in fo harmonious a ftile, that 
 our muficians are chiefly indebted to him for the 
 honour of having their compofitions relifhed at 
 prefent in almoft all parts of Europe : Yet the mod 
 judicious part of our readers like MetaftaJio*s ver- 
 fes better without than with mufick as it but fel- 
 dom happens that the compofers keep pace with 
 the poet. They either flacken when his poetry 
 requires to be exprefTed with forcible notes or fink 
 into effeminacy when it demands but foftnefs. 
 
 Metafia/io well deferves the honours paid nim- 
 by the prefent age, for befides his unparallelled 
 harmonioufnefs in verification, his language is 
 moft perfpicuous, his invention of characters and 
 interefting fuuations almoft equal to that of Shake- 
 fpear and Corneille, and his knowledge of paiflona 
 not inferior to his invention. 
 
 Though his works are now known to every fo- 
 reign lover of Italian, yet for the convenience of 
 thofe that are not poffefled of them, I chufe to 
 tranferibe two fhort lyric pieces out of them. 
 
 A
 
 Ixxviii A HISTORY of the 
 
 A Hymn to Venus. 
 
 Scendi propizia 
 Col tuo fplendore 
 O bella Venere 
 Piacer d* Amore : 
 O bella Venere 
 Che fola fei 
 Madre degl* Uomini 
 E degli Dei; 
 Tu con le lucide 
 Pupille chiare 
 Fai lieta e fertile 
 La Terra e il mare. 
 Per te fi genera 
 L' umana prole 
 Sotto de' fervidi 
 Raggi del Sole. 
 Preffo a' tuoi placidi 
 Aftri ridenti 
 Le nubi fuggcno 
 Fuggono i venti. 
 A te florifcono 
 Gli erbofi prati, 
 E ifluttiridono 
 Nel mar placati. 
 Per te le tremule 
 Faci del Cielo 
 Dell' ombre fquarciano 
 L' umido velo.
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, lxxis 
 E allor che forgono 
 
 In lieta fchiera 
 
 I grati zefiri 
 
 Di primavera, 
 Te Dea falutano 
 
 Gli augei canori 
 
 Che in petto accolgono 
 
 Tuoi dolci ardori. 
 Per te le timide 
 
 Colombe i figli A 
 
 In preda lafciano 
 
 De' fieri artigli. 
 Per te abbandonano 
 
 Dentro le tanc 
 
 I parti teneri 
 
 Le Tigri Ircane. 
 Per te fi fpiegano 
 
 Le forme afcofe 
 
 Per te propagano 
 
 Le umane cofe. 
 Vien dal tuo fpirito 
 
 Dolce e fecondo 
 
 Cio che d' amabile 
 
 Racchiude il mondo, 
 Scendi propizia 
 
 Col tuo fplendore 
 
 O bella Venere 
 
 Madre d* Amore^ 
 
 O
 
 btxx A HISTORY of rut 
 
 O bella Vcnerc 
 Che fola fei 
 Piacer degl' Uomini 
 E degli Dei. 
 
 La LibertaV 
 
 J Nice* 
 
 drazie agl' inganni tuoi 1 
 
 Alfin refpiro Nice : 
 
 Alnn d' un infelice 
 
 Ebber gli Dei picta . 
 Sento da' lacci fuoi 
 
 Sento che 1' alma fciolta t 
 
 Non fogno quefta volta 
 
 Non fogno liber ta. 
 
 Manco 1* antico ardore 
 
 E Ton tranquillo a fegno 
 
 Che in me non trova fdegno 
 
 Per mafcherarfi amor. 
 Non cangio piu colore 
 
 Quando il tuo nome afcolto t 
 
 Quando ti miro in volto 
 
 Piu. non mi batte il cor. 
 
 Sogno, ma te non miro- 
 Sempre ne' fogni miei : 
 Mi defto, e tu non fei 
 II primo mropenfier, 
 
 Lungi
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE, Ixxxi 
 
 Lungi da te m' aggiro 
 Senza bramarti mai 
 Son teco e non mi fai 
 Ne pena ne piacer. 
 
 Di tua belta ragiono 
 Ne intenerir mi fento. 
 
 I torti miei ram men to 
 E non mi fo fdegnar. 
 
 Confufopiu non fono 
 
 Quando mi vieni apprefib : 
 Col mio rivale iftefTo 
 Poflb di te parJar. 
 
 Volgimi il guardo altero, 1 
 Parlami in volro umano ; 
 
 II tuo difprezzo e vano 
 E' vano il tuo favor. 
 
 Che piu T ufato impero 
 
 Quei labbri in me non hanno 
 Quegli occhi piu non fanno 
 La via di queflo cor. 
 
 Quel ch* or m' alletta ofpiace 
 Se lieto o meflo or fono 
 Gia piu non e tuo dono 
 n '* ^ o| na tua non e, . 
 
 f Che
 
 lxxxii A HISTORY of the 
 
 Che fenza te mi piacc 
 La felva il colle il prato : 
 Ogni foggiorno ingrato 
 M' annoja ancor con te: 
 
 Odi s' io fon fincero, 
 
 Ancor mi fembri bella, 
 
 Ma non mi fembri quella 
 
 Che paragon non ha. 
 E, non ti offenda il vero, 
 
 Nel tuo leggiadro afpetto 
 
 Or vedo alcun difetto 
 
 Che mi parea belta. 
 
 Quando lo ftral fpezzai, 
 Confeffo ii mio roffore, 
 Spezzar m' intefi ilcore, 
 Mi parve di morir. . 
 
 Ma per ufcir di guai 
 
 Per non vederfi oppreffo, 
 Per racquiftar fe fteffo 
 Tutto fi puo foffrir. 
 
 Nel vifco in cui s' avvenne 
 Quell' Augellin talora 
 Lafcia le penne ancora 
 Ma torna in liberta. . 
 
 Poi
 
 ITALIAN TO NGUE. Ixxxiii 
 Poi le perdute penne 
 In pochi di' rinnova ; 
 Cautodivien perprova 
 Ne piu tradir fi fa. 
 
 So che non credi eftinto 
 
 In me P incendio antico 
 
 Perche si fpeflb il dico 
 
 Perche tacer non fo. 
 Quel naturale iftinto, 
 
 Nice, a parlar mi fprona 
 
 Per cui ciafcun ragiona 
 
 De' rifchi che pafTo. 
 
 Dopo il crudel cimento 
 
 Narra i paffati fdegni, 
 
 Di fue ferite i fegni 
 
 Moftra il Guerrier cosi. 
 Moftra cosi contento 
 
 Schiavo che ufci di pena 
 
 La barbara catena 
 
 Ghe ftrafcinava un di. 
 
 Parlo, ma fol parlando 
 Me foddisfar procuro : 
 Parlo, ma nulla io euro 
 Che tu mi prefti fe. 
 
 f 2 Parlo
 
 Ixxxiv A HISTORY of the 
 Parlo, ma non dimando 
 Se approvi i dttti miei, 
 Ne fe tranquilla fci 
 Nel ragionar di me. 
 
 o" 
 
 Io lafcio un' incoftante, 
 
 Tu perdi un cor fincero : 
 
 Non fo di noi primiero 
 
 Chi s' abbia a confolar. 
 So cheun si fido Amante 
 
 Non trovera piu Nice, 
 
 Che un' akra Ingannatrice 
 
 E facile a trovar. 
 
 Giancarlo Pafferoni is the author of a poem of 
 the epic kind, intitled Vita di Marco Tul/io Cicero- 
 My the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero. 
 
 But let not the reader expect that the poem 
 will come up to ics title. Cicero is fcarcely men- 
 tioned in the greateft part of the canto?, and the 
 author rather hinting than defcribing the feveral 
 accidents of Cicero's life, (which are alfo imaginary 
 for the greateft part) generally carries on his work 
 with digreflions tending to reform the prefent man- 
 ners of his countrymen. -From the good qualities 
 he attributes to Cicero's father, mother, preceptor, 
 and attendants, he takes occafion to fatirize the 
 modern bad fathers, mothers, preceptors, and at- 
 tendants i
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. Ixxxv 
 
 tcndants ; and Cicero's juvenile fiudies, exercifes, 
 and amufements, afford the poet as many oppor- 
 tunities as he pieafcs to expatiate on the modern 
 virtues and vices, and approve, blame, or rectify 
 the notions of mankind about literature, manners^ 
 employments, expectations, and views. 
 
 This praife muft I bellow on my honeft friend 
 Pajfercni, that none of our poets either ancient or 
 modern has like him kept clofe to the Horatian 
 rule of mixing the uieful with the delightful. A 
 multitude of moral precepts has he fpread in his 
 poem, that being delivered in a mod eafy flrain, 
 will certainly make the bulk of his readers better 
 than ihey are, and confequently render his name 
 dear to his contemporaries, and venerable to pof- 
 teri r y ; efpecially if in the next edition he (hall 
 expunge fome paffages that are too burlefque or 
 rather too vulgar, and if he is made fenfible that 
 he has done amifs in running down phyficians, to 
 whom he has, like Mo'iere, been quire unjuft, caft- 
 ing ridicule on their refpecTable art, whenever 
 his fubjecl; brought him to talk of phyfic. 
 
 A fpecimen of Pajferoni's poetry I take from 
 the twenty-ninth canto, where after having faid 
 that Clcero\ father chofe a Tufcan poet to be the 
 governor and preceptor of his fon, our author 
 runs into a digrefTion in praife of the poetical art, 
 too much defpiled in Italy by a multitude of ig- 
 f 3 norant
 
 lxxxvl A H I S TO R Y of the 
 
 norant people, who confounding poetafters (of 
 which there are great numbers)with poets,are con- 
 tinually declaiming againft it. 
 
 Un Poeta per Ajo a Cicerone, 
 
 Un che compone verfi in lingua Tofca, 
 Greca, e Latina, e ha fempre il Colafcione 
 Al collo a g'orno chiaro, all' aria fofca ? 
 Maravigliando dicon le Perfone, 
 O per dir megllo certa gente lofca 
 Da capo a piedi d' ignoranza adorna 
 Che i poveri Poeti ha ful'e corna. 
 E che credete che un Poeta fia ? 
 Un Poeta, per quel che ne favella 
 Placone, e un Uom che fcrive in Poefia : 
 E quefta Poefia che cofa e ella ? 
 E una profa legata, un' armonia 
 Forte e foave, un' Arte onefta e bella 
 Di cui 1' effetto efficace e giocondo 
 Ha facto fempre moko beneal mondo. 
 Qutfta bell' Arte noi P abbiamo apprefa 
 Da' Provenzali, e quefti da' Latini ; 
 I Latini da' Greci V hanno orefa, 
 E i Greci dagli Ebrei loro vicini: 
 Agli E':>rei Y ifpiro, fenza contefa, 
 Lo ftefiTo Iddio per li fuoi giufti fini, 
 Ideft perche in iublimi e nuovi modi 
 Cantaffcr la fua gloria e le fue iodi. 
 
 Coi
 
 I T A L I A N T ON G U E. lxxxvii 
 
 Cosi fece Mose dopo il paffaggio 
 
 Del MarRoffb, equalch' altro Patriarca ; 
 Cosl fece quell' Uom si giufto e faggio, 
 Anzi quel penitente e gran Monarca, 
 Davide dico, il quale in fuo linguaggio 
 Compofemolto meglio del Pctrarca : 
 E quanti gran Dottori e quanti Santi 
 Hanno lodato Iddione' lorocanti? 
 
 Ed in verfi cantar de' loro Dei 
 
 Le lodi, e in verfi efpofero i fegreti 
 Delia Religion gli antichi Achei, 
 Ed erano Teologi e Poeti ; 
 E gli Anfioni, i Lini, e i loro Orfei 
 Chiamaron Vati o vogliam dir Profeti, 
 E in verfi fulle cofe a lor propofte 
 Gli Oracoli rendevan le rifpofte. 
 
 E conofcendo il pregio e l'eccellenza 
 Del poetare, 1' ebbero i Pagani . 
 Mai fempre in alta ftima e riverenza 
 E principi Je diero alti e fovrani, 
 Ed inventore di quella fcienza 
 Fecero Apollo que' cervelli ftrani, 
 E compagne gli diedero le nove 
 Vergini fuore e Figlicalme di Giove; 
 
 Innalzarono ad EfTe e al biondo Nume 
 Altari e Templi e loro confecraro 
 Pindo, Parnafo, e d' Ippocrene il Fiume, 
 E d' Aganippe si famofo e chiaro, 
 
 f 4 E'l
 
 A HISTORY of the 
 
 E*I CaVilio che ai dorfoavea le piume, 
 e i EHco a, c Cirra, c Ciaro, 
 E la 1 ra, e i verdi allori 
 
 Di ientoe hnperadori. 
 
 E per pof( i j viegar ' alt* j potere 
 
 a te, finfer che co icarmi 
 amanfafferw lcfiere 
 ifcr vita c moro a piante e a marmi, 
 dietro fi craeffero le intere 
 Selve j e Ciua contro la forza e 1' armi 
 Cingcfferu di mura, e che il lor canto 
 Pla afle il Can trifauce eRadamantO. 
 
 E faravvi tra voi chi ancora ardifca 
 Difprezzar la fublime Poefia? 
 E faravvi chi ancor le preferifca 
 Le Donne infami, e il gioco, e 1' ofteria ? 
 Saravvi ancor tra voi chi fi ftupifca 
 Se il favio Marco al Figlio diede Archia 
 Perche gli fufTe nell' arduo fentiero 
 Delia Virtu compagno e condottiero ? 
 
 UnPoeta aver debbe un facro ingegno, 
 Un raggio in fe della divina mente, 
 Onde rapid o poggi oltre ogni fegno 
 Da Natura prefcritto all' altra gente. 
 Un poetico Genio, un che fia degno 
 Del Nome di Poeta veramente 
 In fe contiene quanto altrui puo dare 
 La Natura di grande c fingolare. 
 
 Poi
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. Ixxxte 
 
 Poi coltivar il dono di Natura 
 
 Egli aflai debbc, che non giova molto 
 L' avere un buon terren fe po' '1 trafcura 
 II Padrone o lo lafcia in parte incolto. 
 Con Jungo ftudio, e con lunga lettura 
 Ei render dee fuo ftile ameno e coko, 
 E di belle fentenze e didiverfi 
 Lumi ornar debbe gl' iftruttivi verfi. 
 
 Ha da fapere la Mitologia 
 E i detti de'Filofofi moralf, 
 Saper a mente la Cronologia, 
 Ne malmenar le Croniche e gli Annali t 
 Apprender ben colla Geografia 
 L' Iftoria delle Cofe Naturali ; 
 Effer de' Rid e de' Coftumi pratico, 
 Buon Critico moflrarfi e buon Grammatico,- 
 
 I y ogni fcicnza dee, di qualunque arte 
 Aver piu che mediocre cognizione : 
 Benche feguace egli non fia di Marte 
 Ha da faper quel che Polibio efpone; 
 E dee faper ritrar nelle fue Carte 
 Monti, fiumi, citta, beflie, e perfone, 
 E fopratutto con efatta cura 
 Non perder mai di vifta la Natura, 
 
 Quanto e di raro e di maravigliofo 
 In mill' altri un Poeta in fe 1' accoglie ; 
 Dello Scibile I' ampio e fpazioio 
 Campo egli icorre e il piu bel fiornecoglie ; 
 
 Poggia
 
 xc A HISTORY of the 
 
 Poggia fopra le nubi e imperiofo 
 Del volgo vil fi ride, e a lui fi toglie ; 
 Col forte imaginar, coll' alta idea 
 Mille cofe ftupende inventa e crea. 
 E da cofe volgari e a tutti note 
 Belli fimilitudini deduce, 
 E alle perfone rozze ed idiote 
 Mette le cofeaftrufe in chiara luce : 
 In nuovi regni, in region rimote 
 Qyafi a fofza d' incanti ci conduce, 
 E ftupor move e fpavento in noi defta 
 Se delbrive una pugna, una tempefta. 
 
 A Dio tefle il Poeta Inni di lode 
 
 E rende al Ciel cio che del Cielo e dono : 
 Canta di Lui 1' opre ftupende, e s' ode 
 Contro il vizio gridar che fembra un tuono : 
 Delle fue rime al coraggiofo, al prode, 
 All* invitto Guerriero in dolce fuono 
 Tributo porge e gli conforta il core 
 Tra la bellica polve ed il fudore. 
 
 Contro T Adulator fuoi dardi vibra, 
 
 Deride le ricchezze che cotanto [bra, 
 
 Sono oggi in pregio, e il gran dal loglio cri- 
 
 E i prepotenti affbrda col fuo canto, 
 
 E '1 fangae fa tremare in ogni fibra 
 
 A tal che porta addoffo un aureo manto : 
 
 Tuttocio che e nel mondo ei fa fubbjetto 
 
 Delle fue rime, e chiude un Nume in petto.
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE: xci 
 I magnanimi Regi, i chiari Eroi 
 Pone un Poeta in fen d' eternitate : 
 Achille, Atridi, echefarefte Voi 
 Se non avefte avuto il voftro Vate ? 
 Reca terrore a' rei co* verfi fuoi. 
 Fa temer fin Ie tefte coronate 
 Se prende a efaminar le lor vili opre 
 E i nomi lor d' eterna infamia copre. * 
 
 Di beliiflime imagini e fecondo 
 
 E di rari concetti : e non v' e certo 
 Cofa tanto difficile nel mondo 
 In cui fe vuole ei non fi renda efperto : 
 Ha un intelletto fervido e fecondo ; 
 Ond* io lo compatifco fe il fuo merto 
 Conofcendo, hadi fenon bafTaftima, 
 E fe ardifce talor di dirlo in rima. 
 
 Che puo a ragion, fe il mio penfier non erra, 
 Superbo andar colui che co' fuoi carmi 
 Al tempo edace ed aU'oblio fa guerra, 
 E vani rende i loro sforzi e 1* armi : 
 Colui che s' ergeun monumento in terra 
 Piu de' bronzi durevole e de' marmi : 
 Colui che '1 vizio abbomina, Co'ui 
 Che vinu fiegue e che 1' infegna altrui. 
 
 E non la infegna fol, ma cosi bella 
 Ce la dipinge innanzi, e in efficace 
 Modo con dolce armonica faveila 
 Ce 1* adorna cosi che sforza e piace. 
 
 La
 
 xcii A HISTORY or the 
 
 La Poefia, diceva Orazio, e quella 
 (Sel portin pur 1' altre fcienze in pace) 
 E quella che con arte illuftre e nuova 
 Altrui diletra e dilettando giova. 
 
 E de' Poeti e della Poefia 
 
 Si potrebbero dir troppe altre cofe, 
 Ma chi faperne molto piu defia 
 Legga del Quadrio V Opere famofe ; 
 Legga 1' Orazione che pro Archia 
 Cicerone medefimo compofe, 
 E redra quale fperticata idea 
 Tuliio de' verfi e de' Poeti avea. : 
 
 The prefent ft<te of our language in Italy rs 
 neither very good nor very bad. Befides Me afinfit 
 and Prjfironi we have many poets and proe-wri- 
 ters not deftitute of elegance ; but our p cfet.t po- 
 ets (land at a great ciftance from Ancfio and laf- 
 fo y and we are far from boafting now of novelltils 
 like Boccaccio and Ftrenzuola ; of hiftorian c , like 
 Mace hi 'avelli and Guicciardini ; of critics, like Vel- 
 lutello and Cbflehetro ; and of philolophers, like 
 Piccolomini and Galileo , yet Coccbi, Lami, Gori, 
 Fofcaritti, Zanotti, Volpi y Martinel/i, Gozzi^ Mar- 
 Jiliy Vitturiy Zanetti, Veneris Frugoni y Baleffrien, 
 Tanzi, and fome others, will in my opinion, be re- 
 verenced by pofterity, and ranked amongft the be- 
 nefactors of mankind, if they publifh their volu- 
 minous writings, which I fuppofe to be equal to 
 the fhort fpecimens they have already printed. 
 
 the 
 3
 
 ITALIAN TONGUE. xciii 
 Our univerfities and our academies are not want- 
 ing in men of great wit and learning, but fuch is 
 the prcfent condition of the country. Che Appe- 
 nin parte e 7 mar circonda e V Alpe as to leave 
 me but faint hopes of feeing literary men much 
 countenanced there, fince the beft part of it is 
 in the hand of ftrangers, that think more of plun- 
 der than of literature, and do not care to preferve 
 a language they fcarcely underftand. It is even 
 probable that our tongue will foon be no more a 
 tongue, as the Tufcans who are the natural guar- 
 dians of it, befides meeting no encouragement for 
 writing in it, aie obliged to get fo me knowledge 
 of foreign gabbles, that they may talk to their ig- 
 norant matters, who mixing on their part their 
 French and German words and phrafes with the 
 few Tufcan they catch by converting with their 
 fubjects, muft in a fhort while beget amonftrous 
 jargon ; and if the fource of the language is once 
 tainted, the corruption will quickly run all along 
 the flream, and quite poifon it. 
 
 May the tutelar genius of Italy avert the me- 
 lancholy cataftrophe, and may a young Prince 
 who gave in his earlieft years the moft hopeful 
 figns that he would one day be the promoter as 
 well as the cultivator of Italian learning, keep our 
 language from finking into a dead language fo 
 foon as I apprehend. May my expectation not 
 
 be
 
 xciv A HISTORY of, Gfr. 
 
 be fruftrated of hearing the banks of the Po, the 
 Tiber, the Mincio, the Sebeto, and the Arno,and 
 both the fhores of my country, with the Alps and 
 Appenines, loudly re-eccho his name, and re- 
 peat the Italian verfes that fhall be fling in his 
 praife. 
 
 F I N I Si
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 In this preface page iv, line 18, dele the fir ft and 
 laft commas. 
 
 In the body of the book, page iy, line 26, 
 in (lead of Scepticks, read Afceticks.
 
 THE 
 
 ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Libri Teologici, e di Divozione. 
 Books ^Divinity WDevotion, 
 
 BIB LI A Volgare. lhe Bible in Italian} 
 tranflated by Nicolo de Malermi, 2 large 
 volumes in folio. Venetiis typis Vindel- 
 mini de Spira, 1471. This fir ft edition was 
 followed by many more in different fizes, print- 
 ed in Venice, Lyons, Geneva, Paris, and elfe- 
 where. See Le Long, Pere de FOratoire, in 
 his Biblioth. Sacra, torn. 1. pag. 344. edit. 1 1 1. 
 
 La Biblia tradotta in Lingua Toicana da Antonio 
 Brucioli. The Bible, tranflated by, &c. In 
 Venezia, per li Giunti, 1532, in folio. 
 
 La Biblia tradotta dall' Ebraica in Lingua Tofcana 
 da Santi Mar mo ring hi. The Bible, tranf- 
 lated by, &c. In Venezia, per i Giunti, 1538, 
 in folio. 
 
 La Sacrofanta Biblia tradotta da Mattia d* Er- 
 berg. The Bible, tranflated by, &c. In Co- 
 Ionia, 1 71 2, in folio. 
 
 The tranflarions above are very elegant, but 
 none fo much as the next. 
 
 La Biblia tradotta da Giovanni Diodati. The 
 Bible, tranflated by, &c. The befl: edition is 
 that of Geneva, 1641, in folio, 
 
 B This
 
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 This Diodati, a native of Lucca, having em- 
 braced the opinions of Calvin, (with fome other 
 of his mod diftinguiflied countrymen) left 
 his native place, and went to fettle at Geneva. 
 He was fo famous for his extenfive learning, 
 and in fuch repute for his integrity and 
 piety, that, when the difputes between Pope 
 Paul V. and the Venetians were at their higheft 
 pitch, fome of the hotted Senators propofed, 
 that the republick fhould turn proteftants, and 
 fend for Diodati to preach Calvin's doctrine in 
 their metropolis. This I have read, I do not 
 recollect in what book, and do not vouch this 
 extraordinary anecdote. The reading the Scrip* 
 tures in Italian is prohibhed in Italy. 
 
 ]1 nuovo Teftamento tradotto da Zacheria Fio- 
 rentino. The new Tejlament, tranllated by, 
 &c. In Venezia, 1542, in folio. 
 
 II Genefi, di Pietro Aretino. The Genefis, 
 tranQated by, Sec. I know not what bufinefa 
 the impious Aretino had to tranQate Ge- 
 nefis. I fuppofe this a bad tranfiation, becaufe 
 there is a fault of grammar in the title ; Genefi 
 being of the feminine gender, and Aretino having 
 prefixed a mafculine article to it. I fhail fpeak 
 of this writer in another place. 
 
 Delia Religione Crifliana di MarfilioFicwo. Of 
 the Chrijtian Religion by, &c. In Fiorenza, 
 prefib i Giunti, 1568, in octavo. 
 This book was originally written in Latin by 
 the learned Ficinus ; but as ic was tranflated 
 
 in
 
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 In very elegant Italian by the Author himfelfj 
 therefore one cannot confider it as a mere tranf- 
 lation. 
 Vita di Jesu Crifto e della gloriofa fua Madre* 
 The life of Jefus Chriji and of his glorious Mo- 
 ther. In Bologna, per BaldifTera Azzoguidi, 
 
 1474, in quarto. Author unknown. 
 
 Vita della Beata Vergine e di Jesu Crifto; The 
 life of the Rleffed Virgin and of Jefus Chrift. la 
 Venezia, per Pietro Cremonefe, i486, in quar- 
 to. Thefe two books are valuable for their pu- 
 rity of language, and fcarcity. 
 
 Miracoli della gloriofa Verzene Maria. Miracles, 
 Sec. In Vicenzaj per Zuane de Reno, 1746, 
 in octavo. 
 
 The curious buy this book for the fake of the 
 language, which is mixed with many Venetian 
 words and phrafes ufed in the twelfth century, 
 in which it was written. 
 
 Vite de Santi Padri per diverfi eloquentiflimi Dot- 
 tori volgarizzate. the lives of the Fathers 
 tranflated into Italian by many niojl eloquent Doc- 
 tors. In Venezia, per M. Antonio di Barto- 
 lomeo da Bologna* 1476, in folio. 
 
 Vite de Santi Padri. In Vicenza, per Hermart- 
 num Liethenfteini 1479, in folio , and in Ve- 
 nezia, per Nicold Girardegno^ 1479, in folio; 
 
 Le Leggende di tutti li Sancti e le Sancte. In 
 Venezia, per Maeftro'Nicold Jenfon Franzefe, 
 
 1475, * n fli' The fame book reprinted in 
 Venice, 1490, in folio. 
 
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 I regifter here thefe books, venerable for 
 their antiquity, that the curious may fee how 
 the Italian was written in the primitive age of 
 the language. 
 
 Legendario de' Santi, di Jacobo da Voragine." 
 In Venezia, per Andrea Paltafichi e Bonino, 
 1484; and there, per Chriftophorum Arnol- 
 dum, 1478, in folio j and per Ottaviano Scoto, 
 1481 and 1488. 
 
 Some Criticks fay, that Jacobo da Voragine writ 
 this book in Latin, and that it was translated by 
 Nicolo deMANERBi, or Malerm j, the tranfla- 
 tor of the Bible named above. 
 
 Dialogo di MefTer Ortenfio Landi, nel quale fi 
 ragiona della confolazione e utilita che fi riporta 
 leggendo la Sacra Scrinura, e fi tratta eziandio 
 dell* ordine da tenerfi nel kggerla, moftrandofi 
 effer le facre Lettere di vera eloquenza e di va- 
 ria dottrina alle pagane fuperiori. A Dialogue 
 by Ortenfio Landi on the confolation and advantage 
 drawn by reading the Holy Scriptures, Sec. 
 Many works, befides this, did Lando write 5 
 but all in Latin. Simlerus and Frisius, 
 abbreviators and continuators of Gesner's Bi- 
 bliotheque have regiftered them all in that book. 
 He was of Rome and an Augu ftine friar, but 
 turned proteftant, and died in Switzerland, 
 though fome fay in Lyons. 
 
 L' Arte di ben morire, di Francefco di Dino 
 Fiorentino. The art of dying well 
 
 Trattato
 
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 Trattato dell' Amor di Dio e della Cariia verfo il 
 Proffimo, del Cardinale Giovanni Domenici 
 Florentine In Siena, per Simone di Nicolo 
 e Giovanni di AlefTandro, 15 13, in quarto. A 
 Treat ife on the Love of God and Charity towards 
 our Neighbour, &c. It is written with ;great 
 fimplicity of ftile. 
 
 Iftruzione a' Padri per ben governare la Famiglia 
 loro, di Pier Giussano, ,co' ricordi del Bcato 
 Carlo Borromeo. In Miiano prerTo il Tini, 
 1603, in octavo. Injiruclion to Fathers for the 
 good Government of their Families , &c. Avery 
 well written book. 
 
 Lo Specchio di vera Penitenza, del Reverendo 
 Maeftro Jacopo Passavanti Fiorentino dell' 
 Ordine de' Predicatori. The Mirror of true 
 Penitence, by James Pafjavant, &c. In Firenze, 
 preflb il Sermatelli, 1585, in duodecimo. 
 This edition was revifed by LionardoSALviATi. 
 This little book is as elegant, in the ftile 3 as any 
 we have in our language. 
 
 Vita di S. Maria Maddalena Penitente, di Prierio 
 Silvestro. In Bologna, per Zoan Antonio 
 de' Benedetti, 1500, in quarto. 
 
 Vita di S. Hieronymo. In Venezia, per Pere- 
 grino Pafquali & Soc. 1485, in quarto ; and 
 in Trevifo, per Mich. Manzolino, 1480, in 
 quarto. Author unknown. 
 
 Vita e fine del Gloriofo S, Hieronymo.' The 
 Life and Death, &c. In Venezia, per Gabriel 
 de* Petri, 1475, in quarto. Author unknown. 
 B 3 Vita
 
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 Vita di S. Caterina da Siena. In Firenze, al mo- 
 
 naftero di Santo Jacopo di Ripoli, 1477, m 
 
 quarto. 
 Le vite de' Santi e Beati di Tofcana di Silvano 
 
 Razzi, 1 60 1, in Firenze. 
 
 Of Razzi I (hall fpeak in another place. 
 
 La vita di Santo Zanobi Cittadino, e Vefcovo 
 Fiorentino compofta per Clemente MAZza. In 
 Fiorenza, 1487, in quarto. Printer unknown, 
 
 Vita e tranfito, e gli Miracoli del Beatiffimo Hie- 
 'ronymo, per Bartolomeo Cremonefe, 1473, 
 in quarto. Author unknown. 
 
 Vita del Seraphico San Francefco, compilata per 
 il Reverend iffimo Patre e Doctore eximio Mefler 
 Bonaventura Cardinale della Santa Madre 
 Ecchiefa. In Milano, per Magiftro Antonio 
 Zaroto, 1477, m fo\\o t 
 
 Fioretti de Santo Francifco. In Venezia, 1480, 
 in folio. 
 
 Vita di S. Francefco e Leggenda di S. Chiara. In 
 Venezia, 151 3, in quarto. 
 
 Vita di S. Carlo Borromeo di Gio : Pietro Gius- 
 sani. In Roma, nella Stamperia Camerale, 
 1 6 10, in quarto. 
 
 II Crifiiano iftruito nella fua Legge. Ragiona- 
 menti moralidi PaoloSEGNERi dellaCompagnia 
 di Gesu. In Firenze nella Stamperia di Sua^ 
 Altezza, 1686. Parti III. volumi II. in 
 quarto. The Cbriftian inftrufted in his Religion^ 
 & c. This is a book of reputation. 
 
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 II Combattimento Spirituale di Lorenzo Scupoli 
 da Otranto, Chenco Regolare. In Padova, 
 preffb Giufcppe Comino, 1724, in octavo. 
 'The Spiritual Combat, &c. 
 This is an excellent book, little inferior to that 
 which goes under the name of Thomas a 
 Kempis. 
 
 Befides the many elegant editions of it that 
 were made in different countries, there is a very 
 fplendid one in folio, made in Paris, 1660, 
 under the infpection of the famous Cardinal 
 Mazarin, by order of Anna of Auftria, Qiieen 
 of France. 
 
 Opera Spirituale devotiflima del Reverendo Pa- 
 dre Ugo Pa nzi era dell' Ordine de Frati mi- 
 nori. Genova, 1535, in octavo. A fpiritual 
 and moji devout Compojition, by Ugo &c. 
 It is remarkable, that this book was written 
 fomewhere in Tartary, where the author was 
 many years upon a million, and fent it from 
 thence into Italy. It was printed for the firft 
 time in Florence, in the year 1492, under this 
 title ; Incominciano alcmi fingulari Traftati di 
 Ugo Fancier a da Prato , that is, Here begin 
 fome fingular treatifes by Ugo Panciera. 
 
 Epiftole utili e divote delta Bcata e ferarica Ver- 
 gine S. Caterina da Siena. Ufeful and de- 
 vout Epifiks by, &c. In Venezia, per AldQ 
 Romano, 1550, in folio. 
 
 Predtche di Fra. Giordano da Rialto. Sermons 
 
 ky Friar, &c. In Firenze, per Tartini e 
 
 B 4 Franchi,
 
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 Franchi, 1738, fa quarto. Thefe fermons 
 were printed from a very old manufcript, pof- 
 ftiTed by the Academicians della Crusca. Friar 
 Giordano writ them about the year 1300. 
 There is wonderful fimplicity in the ftile of 
 this author. 
 
 Fra Ruberto : quarefimale fatto a complacenzta 
 della facra maefta del Re Ferdinando. Friar 
 Rubertd's Sermons, preached in Lent, in obedience 
 to his [acred majefiy King Ferdinand. In Tre vifi, 
 per Michele Manzolo, 1479, * n fho. 
 
 Prediche raccolte dalla viva voce del Reverendo 
 Padre Frate Hieronymo da Ferrara. I muft 
 tranflate this title thus : Friar Jerome Savona- 
 rola's Sermons, written by fome body that kept 
 them in mind after having heard them fpoken. 
 Impreflfe ad iftanza di Ser Lorenzo Vivoli, 
 1496, in folio. 
 
 Prediche del R. P. Hieronymo Savonarola fo- 
 pra alquanti Salmi, e fopra Aggeo Profeta. 
 Sermons by, &c. on fome Pfalms and on the Pro- 
 phecies of, Sec. 1544, in octavo. 
 This Savonarola was a pious and learned man, 
 but was burnt in Florence for a fanatick. 
 
 I facri Ragicnamenti di Federigo Cardinal Bor- 
 romeo. 'The facred Difcourfes by, Sec. In 
 Milano, per Dionigi Gariboldi, 1646. Tom. 
 IV. in folio. 
 
 Federigo was nephew to Carlo, of the rich and 
 ancient family of the Borromei at Milan. 
 Both the uncle and the nephew were great fcho- 
 
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 lars ; and Charles, for his piety.; has deferved a 
 place in the catalogue of our Saints. This family 
 has, from time to time, given fome extraordinary 
 perfon to the world , and I have known Donna 
 Clelia Grillo Borromeo, (perhaps ftill< living) 
 the moft learned lady that ever Italy produced, 
 and looked upon with little lefs reverence there, 
 than Newton was in England. She never would 
 publilh any thing , but, perhaps, fome time 
 hence the literary treafure will be augmented, 
 with her numerous manufcripts, efpecially the 
 mathematical. 
 
 1 
 
 Prediche di Cornelio Musso. Sermons by, &c. 
 In Venezia, per li Giunti, 1582. Tom s IL 
 in quarto. 
 
 Prediche non piu ftampate del Musso. Sermons 
 never printed before by, &c. Venezia, pe' 
 Giunti, 1590, in quarto. 
 
 Prediche fopra il Simbolo degli Apoftoli. (by the 
 fame Musso) Sermons on the Creed, by, &c. 
 Venezia, pe' Giunti, 1590, in quarto. 
 
 The two learned Cardinals, Contarini and Bembo, 
 were ufed to fay, that Muffb did not feem to 
 them a philofopher or an orator, but an angel 
 perf uading mankind. Non parea loro n}. filofojo 
 ne oratore ma angelo che perfuadejje il mondo. 
 Muffb was bifhop firft of Bertinoro, then of 
 Bitonto. Many medals, ftruck in honour of 
 him while he was living, are ftill preferved in 
 the cabinets of the curious. 
 
 Prediche
 
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 Prediche di Monfignor Panigarola Vefcovo d* 
 Afti. Sermons by &c. In Torino, in octavo. 
 
 Prediche quarefimali di Francefco Panigarola. 
 Sermons preached in Lent by &c. In Roma, 
 preffo Stefano Paolini, 1596, in quarto. 
 
 Prediche di Gabriello Fiamma. Sermons by &c.' 
 In Venezia, per Francefco Sanefe, 1579, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Difcorfi fopra le Piftole e Vangeli, del Fiamma. 
 Difcourfes on the Epiftles and Go/pels by &c. In 
 Venezia, per Francefco Francefchi, 1580, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Gabriel was fon to Gianfrancefco Fiamma, and 
 brother to Ferrandino Fiamma, both eminent 
 amongft the learned of their age. There are 
 medals ftruck in honour of Gabriel Fiamma. 
 
 Prediche fatte nel Palazzo Apoftolico da Girola- 
 mo Mautini da Narni Cappuccino. Sermons 
 preached in the Jpojlolical Palace by, &c. In 
 Roma, nella Stamperia Vaticana, 1632, in 
 folio. 
 
 The fermons of father Mautini were tranflated 
 into French, and printed in Paris in the year 
 1647, in octavo. This tranflation appeared 
 under the name of DuBofc, but father Nice- 
 ron (Memoir. Vol. VI. pag. 330.) tells us, 
 that the true tranflator was Pierot D* Ablan- 
 court, famous for many elegant tranflations, 
 efpecially from the Greek, who, being a friend 
 to Du Bofc, generoufly gave this tranflation to 
 him, that, by felling it, he might help himfelf 
 
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 out of fome diftrefs, in which he was involved 
 for having quitted his religious habit. Yet, in 
 Vol. X. pag. lyi of the fame work, Niceron 
 doubts the fact he had advanced in the VI. and 
 he Clerc fays, that this is a downright fable, 
 and that Du Bofc was the true tranflator. Car- 
 dinal Caraccioli, bifhop of An vers, who died 
 in Rome in the year 1730, had fo much value 
 for Mautini 1 s Sermons \ that he was ufed to fay, 
 he would willingly pafs an afternoon in hearing 
 Mautini preach, after having employed the 
 morning in hearing another 5"/. Paul. The 
 life of Mautini has been written in Latin by 
 Marceilin of Pifa, a capuchin friar, and printed 
 in Rome, per Manelfo Manelfi, 1646, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Prediche di diverfi illuftri Teologi, raccolte da 
 Tomafo Porcacchi. In Venezia, perGiorgio 
 Cavalli, 1565. 
 
 The authors contained in this collection are ten 
 of the greateft Divines of that age. 
 
 Prediche di Girolamo Seripando, &c. In Vene- 
 zia, al fegno del!a Salamandra, 1567, in quarto. 
 This Seripando, archbifnop of Salerno, then a 
 cardinal and legate to the Council of Trent, 
 was a man of immenfe learning, and a great 
 patron of literature. 
 
 Qjarefimale di Paolo Segneri, Gefuita. Sermons 
 preached in Lent by, Sec. In Firenze, per Ja- 
 cobo Sabatini, 1679, in folio. 
 
 This
 
 2 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 This Jefuit is ftill generally looked upon as the 
 moft eloquent of the facred Italian Orators, and 
 indeed he is very copious and eafy ; yet I could 
 find fome fault with his language and ftile, 
 though his name adorns the lift of the authors 
 that furniftied matter to the dictionary of the 
 Academicians della Crufca. 
 Delle Prediche dette nel Palazzo Apoftolico da 
 Fra Francefco Maria (Casini) d' Arezzo Cap- 
 puccino, Oggi Cardinale di Santa Prifca, dedi- 
 cate alia Santita di N. S. Clemente XI. In 
 Roma, per Giovanni Maria Saivioni, 171 3, 
 3 vol. in folio. 
 
 Thefe fermons bear a great character in Italy ; 
 but as I never read them, mall pafs them in 
 
 filence. 
 Le Sette Trombe. In Venezia, 1650, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 This is the moft famous book of devotion with 
 the vulgar of Italy, and this is the reafon for 
 my fetting it down here. 
 The author pioufly thought that there was no 
 falvation out of a cloiftcr, and turned all the 
 power of his zeal to frighten people into monks 
 and nuns: I am of opinion he has fucceeded 
 too well. 
 
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 Traduzioni di Libri Teologici e Divoti. 
 Tranjlations of Theological and Devout Books. 
 
 VITE de' SancYi Padri, compofte per Sanc*tQ 
 Hieronymo. In Venezia, per Gabriello 
 de* Petri, 1475, in quarto. Tranfiator unknown^ 
 but elegant with fimplicity. 
 Vita e tranfito di S. Girolamo tradotti nella Lin- 
 gua Fiorentina. In Firenze, per Francefco 
 Bonacorfi, 1490. Tranfiator unknown^ but 
 elegant. 
 IJ Catechifmo, cioe Iftruzione, fecondo il Decreto 
 del Concilio di Trento, a' Parochi, Pubblicato 
 per Comandamento del Santiffimo Signor noftro 
 Papa Pio V. e tradotto poi per ordine di fua 
 Santita in Lingua volgare da Aleflio Figliucci 
 dell' ordine de' Predicatori. In Roma, per 
 Paolo Manuzio, 1566, in octavo ; and in Ve- 
 nezia, per Aldo, 1582, in octavo. The Ca- 
 techifm, that is Inftruffion, according to the De- 
 cree of tht Council of Trent, for the Curates^ 
 publifhed by order of our mojl holy Lord Pope 
 Pius V. and t ran/la ted by order of his Holinefs 
 into Italian by Aleffio Figliucci, a Dominican 
 Friar. 
 
 The original of this book was written in Latin 
 by Lionardo Marixi, Egidio Foscarari, 
 and Francis Forerio, under the infpection of 
 the cardinals. Borromeo and Sirleto 5 then 
 
 it
 
 * 4 The Italian library. 
 
 it was revifed and corrected by Paulus Manit- 
 tius, Julius Poggianus, and Cornelius A- 
 malthexjs. The Italian tranflation is little 
 inferior, as to elegance of ftile, to the originaL 
 Figliucci, whofe name is often quoted in this 
 library, was of Siena. After having diftin- 
 guifhed himfelf with many elegant works and 
 tranflations under his own chriflian name of 
 Felice, he turned a Dominican friar, changed 
 his name of Felice for that of AleJ/io, and gave 
 himfelf up to the duties of his order, and to 
 write or tranflate pious books : it is no fmall 
 panegyrick on him, that he was chofen to tranf- 
 late one fo important as our Catechifm. 
 Lionardo Marini y archbifhop of Lanciano ; 
 Egidio Fofcarari, bifhop of Modena , and 
 Francis Forerio or Foriero ; all three Domi- 
 nican friars, the reader muft think that 
 they were in high repute as theologifts, to 
 be entrufted with fuch a work. Cardinal 
 Sirleto was alfo one of the mod learned men that 
 Italy boafts of. Father Albi y a Jefuit, in his 
 life of this Cardinal, affirms, that Sirleto was 
 the only author of the catechifm, but there are 
 unanfwerable authorities againft his affertion. 
 From the hands of Sirleto and Borromeo, the 
 book went to the infpection of the three molt 
 celebrated Jatinifts then in Italy* as I have faid. 
 
 Vite di alcuni Santi forte da S. Gerolamo, Palla- 
 
 dio, Severn, Sulpizio, Metafrafte, ed altri au- 
 
 tori, fatte volgari dal P. Pietro Maffei^ In 
 
 Brefcia, 1595, in quarto. Marti- 
 
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 Martirologio Romaao, da Girolamo Bardi. In 
 Venezia, 1585, in quarto. 
 
 Vita di XII Santi fcritte da* Padri Antichi. In 
 Venezia, pel Trameztno, 1560, in 16. Tranf- 
 lator unknown. 
 
 Quattro Libri di Giovan Gerson della Imitazione 
 di Crifto, del difpregio del mondo, e della fua 
 vanita. Tradotti da Rem igio Florentine In 
 Vinegia, pel Giolito, 1560, in duodecimo. 
 This Remigio was of Florence, and of the 
 family of the Nannini, which he always fup- 
 preffed in the title of the many books and 
 tranQations that he publifhed. His elegance 
 and purity of language is uncommonly good* 
 This is that famous book De Imitatione Chrifti 
 by Thomas a Kempis -, by fome attributed to 
 Gerfon. 
 
 I (hall mention Remigio Fiorentino, the Ita- 
 lian tranflator, in other places* 
 
 Vita di S. Romualdo fcritta del B. Pietro Da- 
 mi ano, tradotta da D. Agoflino Fortunio, 
 con alcune Annotazioni. In Firenze, preflo i 
 Giunti,. 1586, in octavo. 
 
 La vita e miracoli de' Gloriofi confeflbri di Crifto 
 Santo Giufto e Clemente, con altri Santi, tra- 
 dotte di Latino in Volgare da Frofino Lap mi. 
 In Firenze, per il Sermatelli, 1368, in octavo. 
 
 Fiori della Ghirlanda Spirituale. In Venezia, 
 pel Giolito. The Flowers of the Spiritual Gar- 
 land. This book was printed both in quarto 
 and in duodecimo by this famous Printer in 
 Venice, in fourteen volumes. The firft ten 
 
 volumes
 
 i6 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 " volumes contain as many different works wrir- 
 ten in Spanifh by Lewis of Granata, a Do- 
 minican friar. Thefe are the contents : 
 
 Vol. I. Guida de' Peccatori. The Guide of the 
 Sinners. Tranflated by Pietro Lauro, 1568. 
 
 Vol. II. Memoriale della Vita del Criftiano. 
 A Memorial on the Life of the Chrifiian. Tranf. 
 Iated by Giovanni Miranda, with fome notes 
 by Francefco Turcht, 1568. 
 
 Vol. III. Seconda Parte del Memoriale. Second 
 Part of the Memorial. Tranflated by Pietro 
 Buonfanti da Bibbiena, 1572. 
 
 Vol. IV. Meditazioni per li giorni della Setti- 
 mana. Meditations for each Day in the Week. 
 Tranflated by Pietro Lauro, 1577. 
 About the middle of the fixteenth century, 
 there was in Italy, and efpecialiy in Venice, a 
 great number of grammarians , and among 
 others, Francefco Sanfovino, Lodovico Dolce,- 
 Lodovico Domenichi, Girolamo Rufcelli, Dio- 
 nigi Atanagi, Tommafo Porcacchi, Baftiano 
 Faufto, Bernardino Pino, Alfonfo Ulloa, Ora- 
 zio Tofcanella, Anton Francefco Doni, Agof- 
 tino Micheli, Lucio Fauno, Remigio Fioren- 
 tino, Francefco Turchi, Francefco Bandelii, 
 Giulio Ballino, and Pietro Lauro the transla- 
 tor of the above book, by Granata. They af- 
 fembled, for the greateft parr, in the houfe of 
 Giolito, the famous printer, who employed 
 them all in tranflating and correcting that vaft 
 quantity of Italian books, which he printed. 
 
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 Vol. V. Trattato dell* orazione, A Trealife ah 
 Praying. Tranflated by Pietro Lauro, 1578. 
 
 Vol. VI. Specchio della, Vita Umana. .A mirror 
 of Human Life. Tranfla:ed by Giovanni Mi- 
 randa, 1578. 
 
 Vol. VII. Trattato della Cohfeflione cComunion'e. 
 A Trealife oh Corf effort and Communion. Tranf- 
 lated by Giovanni Miranda, 1752. 
 
 Vol. VIII. Scorta del Peccatore. An Efcort to 
 the Sinner. Tranflared by Alfonfo Ruspag- 
 giari da Reggio, 1576. 
 
 Vol. IX. Meditazioni Divote fopra alcuni pafli e 
 mifteri della vita del Sal va tore. Devout Medi- 
 tations on fome Faffages and Myfleries of our Sa- 
 viour's Life. Tranflated by Pietro Buonfan- 
 ti, 1577. Ac the end of this volume there 
 is a little book, entitled Filomena, written by 
 Sr. Buonaventur a, tranflated into verfe by 
 the laid Buonfanti. 
 
 Apoftolo Zeno fays of Granata -, Qjejlo gran 
 Maeflro della vita fpiriiuale e la principal fonle, 
 alia quale attinfero il gran Santo France [co di Sa 
 les e quanti Afcettlci vernier dopo di Lui \ that 
 is, This great Mafter of fpiritual life is the chief 
 fpring to which the great Saint Francis of Sales, 
 and all the Scepticks that came after him, drew 
 water. 
 
 Giovanni Miranda was a Spaniard, yet writ to- 
 lerably well in Italian. 
 Vol. X. Aggiunzioni al Memoriale della Vita 
 Criftiaha. Additions to the Memorial on Chrif- 
 C tian
 
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 tian Life. Tranflated by Giovanni Gioli to 
 de' Ferrari, 1578. 
 
 The following works, though not by Gra- 
 nata, make up the reft of the Flowers of the 
 Garland. A whimfical title. 
 
 Vol. XI. Trattato della Difciplina e della perfe- 
 zion monaftica del Beato Lorenzo Giustini- 
 ano. A Treatife on the Difcipline and monafti- 
 cal Perfection. TranQated by Gregorio Ma- 
 rino, 1569. The original is Latin, and its 
 author, a good Latin fcholar and a very ele- 
 gant Italian poet, was a Nobleman and firfl: 
 Patriarch of Venice. His piety procured him 
 the honour of being regiftered among our Saints. 
 
 Vol. XII. Le pie e criftiane parafrafi fopra 1' E- 
 vangelio di San Matteo e San Giovanni. The 
 pious and chrijlian Parapbrafes on the Gcfpel of 
 St. Matthew and St. John. Written by An- 
 gelico Buonriccio, a Venetian, 1569. 
 
 Vol. XIII. Manuals de' ConfefTori e Penitenti. 
 A Manual for Confeffors and Penitents. Written 
 in Spanifh by Martino Azpliqueta, tranfla- 
 ted by Cola de Guglinisi, 1569. 
 
 Vol. XIV. Commentari dell' ufure, de* Cambi, 
 della Simonia, &c. Commentaries on Ufury, 
 Exchange of Money, Simony, &c. Written in 
 Spanifh by the laid Azpliqueta, tranflated 
 by the faid Guglinisi, 1579. 
 
 The tranflators of the above bocks did not write 
 with any remarkable degree of elegance, ex- 
 cept Lauro and Buonfanti. 
 
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 Trattato deli' Orazione, delia Meditazione, e de' 
 principal! Mifteri della fede noftra con altre cofe 
 di molto profitto al Criftiano. ATreatife on 
 Prayer, Meditation, and principal Myjlerics of 
 our Faith, with other things, &c. Translated 
 from the Spanim by Vincenzo Buondi. In 
 Vinegia, pel Gioliro, 156 1, in octavo. 
 Vicenzo Buondi pro felled phyfick many years 
 in Venice, where he died in the year 1750. 
 
 Introduzione al Simbolo della Fede, parti quat- 
 tro. An Introduction to the Simbol of the Faith, 
 divided in jour parts. Written by Gran at a 
 in Spanifh, translated by Filippo Pigatetta. 
 In Venezia 5 per Franccico Ziletti, in quarto. 
 Pigafetta had converfed familiarly in Lifbon 
 with foher Granata -, and this translation has 
 more of the fpirit of the original than any of 
 the reft, except that by Miranda. 
 
 Opere Spirituali di Francefco Borgia, Duca di 
 Gandia. The Spiritual Works of Francis Bor- 
 gia, Duke of Gandia. Tran dated from the 
 Caftillian by Vicenzo Buondi. In Venezia 
 pel Giolito, 1561, in octavo. 
 
 Pel Difpregio del Mondo e delle fue Vanita; 
 Contempt of the World and its Vanities. In Ve- 
 nezia, preffo Aldo, 1597, in quarto. Written 
 originally in Latin by the above-named Gius- 
 tiniano, firft patriarch of Venice, tranflated 
 by Domenico Gabriel 1. 
 
 Difcorfo fopra la beatifiima Vergine, di Chiara 
 
 Matraini, con annotazioni di D. Giufeppc 
 
 C 2 Mozza-
 
 20 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 
 
 Mozzagrugno Napoletano. In Lucca, prefe 
 fo il Bufdrago, 1590, in quarto, 
 
 Confiderazioni fopra i Sette Salmi Penitenziali, 
 by the fame Matraini. In Lucca, preflb il 
 Bufdrago, 1586, in quarto. 
 
 Vita di Maria Vergine, (by the fame.,) In Ve^ 
 nezia, per Domenico e Pietro Uici, 1625, edi- 
 zione V. in octavo. 
 
 Pialoghi Spirituali con alcune Rime, (by the 
 fame.) In Venezia, preflb Fioravante Prati. 
 This Lady was of Lucca, of the family Cate- 
 rini. In her youth fhe acquired great reputa- 
 tion, as a poetefs ; bur, advancing in years, 
 being left a widow, gave herfelf up to devotion, 
 and writ the above works. See, Lettere. 
 
 Suppofing it indifferent to an Englifh read- 
 er, I fhall not mention any more of our 
 books of Devotion ; efpecially becaufe, 
 for the moft parr, they are not pure and 
 elegant Tufcan, 
 
 Scrittori
 
 Scrittori Ecclefiaftici Greci volgarizzati. 
 
 Greek Ecclefiajlick Writers tranjlated into 
 Italian* 
 
 ATENAGORA Ateniefe, Filofofo CriHiano, 
 della refurezione de' Morti. Atenagoras, the 
 Athenian, a Chriftian Philofopher, on the Refer* 
 reftion of the Dead, Translated by Girolamo 
 Faleti. In Venezia, per Paolo Manuzio, 
 1556, in quarto. 
 
 Delia Preparazione Evangelica di Eusebio Cefa- 
 rienfe* On Evangelick Preparation, by Eufebius of 
 Cefarea. The tranflator is unknown. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Michel Tramezzino, 1550, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Dionigi Areopagita, de' divini Nomi. On the 
 
 divine Names, by Dionyfius the Areopagite. 
 
 Tranflaced by Valeriano Ormo of Bergamo. 
 
 In Venezia, preflfo Rutilio Borgominiero, 1563, 
 
 in octavo. 
 Della perfetta Verginita de* Santi Bafilio ed A- 
 
 goftino, &c. On perfect Virginity, by St. 
 
 Bafil and Auguftin, &c. Tranflated by Ila- 
 
 rione, a Genoefe friar, In Brefcia, preflo 
 
 Marchetti, 1566, in octavo. 
 Del Sacerdozio libri fei di San Giovann Grisos^ 
 
 tomo. On Priejihood, infix books by St. John 
 
 'Chrifofiomus. Tranflated by Scipione d' Af> 
 
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 22 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 flito, a Neopolitan. In Piacenza, per Fran- 
 
 cefco Conti, 1574, in quarto. 
 Di S. Giovanni Damafceno la Paraclttica. The 
 
 Paracktica, by St. John of Damafcus. Tranf- 
 
 lated by Lodovico Maracci. In Roma, pel 
 
 Komarek, 1687, in 24 . 
 
 We have a Latin tranflation of this book, by 
 
 the fame Maracci. 
 Le Prediche del Gran Basilio, Arcivefcovo di 
 
 Cefarea. Sermons by Bafil the Great, arch- 
 
 bijhop of Cefarea. Tranflated by Giulio Bal- 
 
 lino. In Venezia, per Gip. Andrea Valvafibri, 
 
 1566, in octavo. 
 Sermoni di Sant' Efrem. St. Ephrems Sermons. 
 
 Tranflated by Ambrogio, a Hermit of Ca- 
 
 maldoli.' In Venezia, al Segno del Pozzo, 
 
 1545, in octavo. 
 
 Del modo di fupplicare Iddio e dell' Elemofina, 
 di San Grifoftomo. On praying to God and on 
 Alms, by St. Chrifoflom. Translator unknown. 
 Li Venezia, 1544, in odbavo. 
 
 Due Orazioni di Gregorio Nazianzeno, ed il 
 prima Sermone di Cecilio Cipriano. Two 
 Orations by Gregory Nazianzen, and the firji 
 Sermon of Cecilio Cipriano. Tranflated by An- 
 nibale Caro, the renowned tranflator of Vir- 
 gil's iEneid. In Venezia, prefib Aldo Ma- 
 nuzio, 1569, in quarto. 
 
 Sc/ittori
 
 4i*ii^''J*i*^*4+i*4'**44'^'*4?4 ? * , ^ f ^*^i" , *'* ; *'* , 4'*'t'* , t , '* , * 
 
 Scrittori Eccleiiaftici Latini Volgarizzati. 
 
 Ecclefiajlick Latin Writers, tranjlated into 
 Italian. 
 
 GLI Ufici di Santo Ambrogio, Arcivefcovo 
 di Milano tradotti in volgar Fiorentino da 
 Francefco Cattani da Diacceto con annota- 
 zioni. St. Ambrofe 's Offices, tranjlated into 
 Florentine Language by, Sec. with notes. In Fio- 
 renza, per Lorenfeo Torrentino, 1558, in 
 octavo. 
 L' Efamerone di Santo Ambrogio. tradotto dal 
 C a t t a n 1 d a Di acce t o . The Ex am er on, by St. 
 Ambrofe, tranjlated by, &c. In Fiorenza, pel 
 Torrentino, 1560, in octavo. 
 Both elegant tranllations. 
 Delia Citta di Dio, di Santo Agostino. Of 
 God's City, by St. Augujtine. In folio, without 
 name of the printer, year, place, or translator. 
 This tranflation is fo elegant, that fome think 
 it by Jacopo Passavanti, and fome by Ni- 
 colo Piccolomini, two of our pureft writers. 
 Delia Predeftinazione de' Santi, e del bene della 
 Perfeveranza, di Santo Agostino. Of the 
 Predejlination of Saints, and of the Goodnefs of 
 Perfeverance, &c. In Brefcia, per Lodovico 
 Britanico, 1537, * n quarto. TranOator un- 
 known. 
 
 C 4 Del
 
 24 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Del bene della Perfeveranza di Santo Agostino. 
 Of the Goodnefs. of Per fever ance, &c. Trani- 
 lated by Lodovico Domenichi. In Vcnezia, 
 1554, in 16 . 
 
 I Libri XIII. delle Confeflioni, di Santo Agos- 
 tino, tradotti di Latino in Italiano da Giulio 
 Mazzini Breiciano con annotazioni. The 13 
 Books of St. Auguflhis Confeffions, tranjlated by 
 &c. In Roma, nella Tipografia Medicea, per 
 Jacopo Luna, 1595, in quarto. 
 
 L' Epiftole di San Girolamo traclotte di Latino 
 in Lingua Tofcana da Gianfrancefco Zeffi. 
 St. Jerome's Epijiles tranjlated from the Latin ', 
 &c. In Venezia, preflb i Giunti, 1562, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Voigarizzamento de' Gradi di San Girolamo. 
 Tranflation of St. Jerome's Degrees. In Firenze, 
 preflb il Manni, 1729, in quarto. 
 This tranflation is in very pure language. 
 
 Sennoni di S. Bernardo. Sermons by St> Ber- 
 nard. In Firenze, per Lorenzo Morgiana e 
 Gio : di Magonza, 1495, in quarto. Trans- 
 lator unknown. 
 
 I Morali del Pontefice San Gregorio Magno fo- 
 pra il Libro di Giobbe, volgarizzati da Za- 
 nobi da Strata, Prutonotario Apoftolico, e 
 Poeta Laureato, contemporaneo del Petrarca. 
 The Morals by Pope Gregory the Great on the Book 
 of Job, tranjlated by Zanobi da Strata, Apofto- 
 lick Protonotary, and Poet Laureat, contemporary 
 with Petrarch. In four Volumes. 
 
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 Vol I. In Roma, per gli Eredi del Corbelletti, 
 1714. 
 
 Vol.11, per lo Tinafi, 1721. 
 Vol. III. per Girolamo Mainardi, 1725. 
 Vol. IV. preflb Rocco Bernabo, 1730. 
 This tranflation of the Morali by St. Gregory, 
 by Zanobi da Strata, is often quoted for its pu- 
 rity of language by the Academicians delta 
 Crufca. Zeno, in his notes on Fontanini^ 
 Eloquenza, blames, with juftice, the Roman 
 Editors, who, inftead of copying faithfully the 
 old edition, (in Firenze, per Nicolo di Lo- 
 renzo della magna, i486, in two vol. folio) 
 have capricioufly modernifed the language, and 
 gives us a little index of the words thus altered 
 for a fpecimen. 
 I Dialoghi di San Gregorio Magno, tradotti da 
 Torello Fola da Poppi. Pope Gregory's Dia- 
 logues, tranjlated by, &c. In Venezia, prefifo 
 Criftoforo Zanetti, 1575, in quarto. 
 torello Fola, of Poppi, a little town in Tuf- 
 cany, befides this tranflation, which is in pure 
 old Tufcan, writ alfo a Latin diary of the 
 things tranfacted at the Council of Trent, which 
 diary (faysZ<?<?) has been unknown to all thofe 
 that writ about that famous Council. 
 
 Filofona
 
 Filofofia Morale. Moral Philofophy. 
 
 DI Felice Figliucci Sanefc, deila Filofofia 
 Morale, Libri X. fopra i disci Libri deir* 
 Etica d' Ariftotile; Ten Books of Moral Pbilo- 
 fopby, by Felice Figliucci, of Siena, on Arijlotles 
 Epticks. In Roma, per Vincenzlo Valgrifi, 
 155 1, in quarto. 
 
 This Felice Figliucci is the fame that Aleffio Fig- 
 liucci, of whom I took notice in another place. 
 
 Ragionamenti di Monfigncr Galeazzo Flori- 
 monte Vcfcovo di Sefifa, fopra 1* Etica d' 
 Aristotile. Difcourfes by Mcnfignor Galeazzo 
 Florimonte, Bijbop of Srjfa, on Ariftotle's Ep* 
 ticks. In Venezia, per Domenico Niccolini, 
 1567, in quarto. 
 
 Dell' Immortalita dell* Anima in Modo di Dia- 
 logo. On the Immortality of the Soul, by Way 
 of Dialogue. Autore Frate Jacobo Campha- 
 ro diGenova dtli* crdinede* Frati Predicatori, 
 in Sacra Teologia L/cenziato in la Univerfita 
 di Oxonford. In Roma, per Gio : Filippo de 
 Legnamine Meffinefe, 1473, in folio. 
 
 Dell* Immortalita dell' Anima in Modo di Dia- 
 logo, di Francefco Philelpho. In Cofcenza, 
 per Ottavio Salamonio di Manfrcdonia, 1478, 
 in quarto. 
 
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 Jacobo Poggio : Opera Morale. In Bologna* 
 per Gio : Antonio Platone de' Benedetti, 1500, 
 in quarto. 
 
 This Poggio was of Bologna. Poggio, the hi- 
 ftorian, was of Florence. 
 Difcorio di Rinaldo Odoni per via peripatetica, 
 ove fi dimoftra fe 1" Anima fecondo Aristo- 
 tele, e mortale o immortale. A peripatetick 
 Difcourfe, in which ii /bowed whether the Soul be 
 mortal or immortal, according to Ariflotk. In 
 Venezia, perAldo, 1557, in quarto. 
 
 Geronimo Amadei Scrvita, Apologia per 1' im- 
 mortalita dell' Anima. In Milano, 15 18, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Parafrafi fopra li tre libri dell' Anima d' Aristo- 
 tile, del R. P. Angelico Buonriccio. In 
 Venezia, per Andrea Arrivabene, 1565, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Trattati di Albertano Giudice di Brefcia, rive- 
 duti con piu tefti a pennr dall' Inferigno Ac- 
 cademico della Gru:ca. Treatifes by Albertano, 
 a Judge in Brefcia, compared with fever al manu- 
 fcripts by Bafliano de* Rossi, an Academician della 
 Crufca. In Fircnze, preflb i Giunti, 1610, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Ricordi di Monfignor Sala da Caftiglione Ca- 
 valier Gerofolimiiano. Moral Advices by Mon- 
 fignor Sala, &c. In Venezia, per Paolo Ghe- 
 rando, 1560, in quarto. 
 
 Efercizi morali di Udeno Niz 1 eli. Moral Exer- 
 fifes by Udeno Nizieli; that is, by Benedetto 
 
 Fioretti,
 
 28 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. 
 
 Fioretti, who concealed himfelf under that 
 feigned name in all his works. Firenze, preflb 
 il Londini, 1633, in quarto. 
 
 II Diamerone di Valerio Marcellino, ove fi 
 Moftra la Morte non tfifere quel Male che il 
 Senfo fi perfuade. Diameron, by Valerio Mar- 
 cellino, in which it is Jhown, that Death is not 
 that Evil which our Senfes makes us believe. In 
 Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1564, in quarto. 
 Valerio Marcellini was of Venice, and a tole- 
 rable Italian lyrick poet, as it appears by a few 
 of his verfes extant in the coile&ion of Alanagi, 
 mentioned in its place. 
 
 Avvertimenti morali del Muz 10. Moral Warn- 
 ings, by Muzio. In Ventzia, pel Valvaflbri, 
 1571, in quarto. 
 
 This Jercnimo Muzio of Capodifiria (in Latin 
 Giujlinopolis) had fuch a veneration for antiqui- 
 ty, that he changed the names of his two fons, 
 Crijioforo and Pietro Paolo, into thofe of Julius 
 Cefar and Paul Emilias. Notwithstanding this, 
 and many other little oddities, he was one of the 
 greateft: men that ever enriched Italy with good 
 books. But his extenfive learning did not hin- 
 der him from dying very poor , and in one of 
 his letters to the Duke of Savoy, he has this 
 pleafant exclamation -, Gran difgrazia e Jlata la 
 mia, in cinquantaquattr* anni di fervitu, non aver 
 potuto acquiftar cinquantaquattro quattrini d* en- 
 trata! That is, How unlucky have 1 been, 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 29 
 
 that in fifty four years labour ', ' I could not ac- 
 quire fifty four farthings rent ! He had been 
 the difciple of Rafaello Regie 9 Battifta Egnazio y 
 and Vittorio Faujio. He was unfavourable 
 to Guicciardin the hiftorian, to Girolamo Ruf- 
 celli and Lodovico Caftelvetro, whofe ftiles he 
 blames, not without reafon ; but his animofity 
 againft the Florentine Dialed was, in my opi- 
 nion, a little abfurd, and if he had ftudied it 
 better, would have found it the mod: copious, 
 fignificant, and harmonious of all the dialects 
 of Italy, 
 Pella Iflituzion morale, di Aleffandro Piccolo- 
 jminj, Jibri XII. Moral Infiitution y by Alef- 
 fandro Piccolomini. In Venezia, per Giordano 
 Ziletti, 1575, in quarto. 
 It appears to me, that this Aleffandro Piccolo- 
 mini made it a point to write all his books in 
 his own native dialect, that is, the dialect: of 
 Siena : and if Siena had produced many writers 
 like this, that city would be able to difpute the 
 precedency in language with Florence. 
 La Leonora, Ragionamento di Giufeppe Betussi, 
 fopra la vera Bellezza. Leonora, a Difcourfe 
 by Giufeppe Betuffi, on true Beauty. In Lucca, 
 preffo il Bufdrago, 1557, * n 0( ^ avo ' 
 Giufeppe Betuffi of Baffano was alfo one of the 
 affiftants of Giolito the famous printer, and a 
 corrector in his printing-office. But his writ- 
 ings are very indifferent as to language and 
 ftite,
 
 3 o The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Dialoghi di Lodovico Zuccolo. Dialogues by 
 Lodovico Zuccolo. In Venez-a, appreffo Marco 
 Ginammi, 1625, in quarto. 
 Lodovico Zuccolo of Imola was a good judge 
 of poetry, and judicioufly ridiculed, in another 
 of his works, cardinal Claudio Tolomei, who 
 wanted toabolifh rhyme, and introduce hexame- 
 ters and pentameters into our poetry. 
 
 Dell' Educazione Chriftiana de Figliuoli, di Sil- 
 vio Antoniano. On the Chrijlian Education of 
 Children, by Silvio Antoniano. In Verona, per 
 Baftian delle Donne, 1584, in quarto. 
 Antoniano writ this work by the command of 
 St. Charles Borromeo, whofe Latin Secretary he 
 was at that time. His learning and piety pro- 
 cured Antoniano the cardinalfliip. Caflelvetro 
 calls him Un miracolefo mojlro di natural, A won- 
 derful monjler of nature-, and fpeaking of him 
 when he was but a youth, fays, that Antoniano 
 fpovvedutamente in cosi tenera eta fa versi, molti in 
 numero e rari in bonta, di qualunque materia gli 
 fta propojla ; that is, Antoniano fings many good 
 verfes extempore on any fnbjecl propofed to him, 
 though be is fo very young. 
 
 Dialogo del Matrimonio e della Vita Vedovile, di 
 Bernardo Trotti. A Dialogue on Matrimony 
 and Widowhood, by Bernardo Trotti. In Torino, 
 preflb il Bevilacqua, 1580, in quarto. 
 
 Della bella Donna, di Federigo Luigini da 
 Udine. The handfome Woman^ by Federigo Lui- 
 
 gitti
 
 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. 31 
 
 gini of Udine. In Venezia, per Plinio Pietra- 
 fanta, 1554, in octavo. 
 
 La Donna di Corte, di Lodovico Domenichi* 
 The Courtly Lady, by Lodovico Domenichi. In 
 Lucca, preffo il Bufdrago, 1564, in quarto. 
 
 La nobilita della Donne, di Lodovico Domeni- 
 chi. The Nobiliy of Women, by Lodovico Dome- 
 nichi. In Vinegia, pel Giolito, 1554, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Lodovico Domenichi of Piacenza was as volu- 
 minous a writer as any in Italian ; he was 
 a very good fcholar, and his ftile is generally 
 above mediocrity ; but as he worked for bread, 
 we muft pardon many inaccuracies in his 
 works. 
 
 Epiftola della Vita che dee tenere una Donna ve- 
 dova, di Giangiorgio Trissino. An epijlle 
 on the Life to be lived by a Widow Lady, by Gian- 
 giorgio Triffino ; of whom I mall fptak, when I 
 come to his epic Poem, entitled Italia Libcrata. 
 In Roma, per Lodovico Vicentino, 1524, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Reggimento del Padre di Famiglia, di Francefco 
 Tommasi. Rules to a Father of Children, by 
 Francefco Tommafi. In Firenze, per Giorgio 
 Marefcotci, 1580, in quarto. 
 
 De gli Ufici eCoftumi de' Giovani, lilri quatro, di 
 Orazio Lombardelli. On the Duties and Man- 
 ners of young Men, in four books, by Orazio Lom- 
 bardelli. In Firenze, preflb il Marefcotti 1585, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
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 Delia Tranquillita dell' Animo, di Orazio Lom- 
 BARDElli. On the 'tranquillity of the Mind y 
 by Orazio Lombardelli. In Siena, >er Luca 
 Bonetti, 1574, in quarto. 
 
 Delia vera Tranquillita dell' Animo, opera d' Ifa- 
 fabella Sforza. fbe true tranquillity of the 
 Mind, hy Ifabella Sforza. 
 A very elegant and learned book, without in- 
 tending a compliment to the Ladies. 
 
 Dialoghi dell* Amicizia, di Lionardo Salviati. 
 Dialogues on Friendjhip, by Lionardo Salviati. 
 In Firenze, per li Giunti, 1^64, in octavo. 
 Salviati was a learned Florentine, and Acade- 
 mician della Crufca : he corrected the Deca- 
 merone of Boccaccio, of which correction I 
 fnall fpeak in its place. Many other things we 
 have of him, all written with Tufcan elegance. 
 
 Ragionamento di Annibal Guasco a Lavinia fua 
 Figliuola, della Maniera del governarfi ella in 
 Corte, andandovi per Dama. A Difcourfe by 
 Annibal Guafco to Lavinia his Daughter, on her 
 Behaviour at Court. In Torino, per li Bevi- 
 laqua. 
 
 Guafco was an inelegant (but well-meaning) 
 writer, and humble imitator of Baldaflar Cajli- 
 glione. 
 
 Dell' Ingratitudine, Ragionamenti tre, di Giu- 
 feppe Orologi. Three Difccurfes on Ingratitude, 
 by Giufeppe Orologi. In Vinegia, pel Giolito, 
 J562, in octavo. 
 
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 L* Inganno, Dialogo, di Giufeppe Orologi. 
 Deceit, a Dialogue* by Giufeppe Orologi. la 
 Vinegia, pel Gioliro, 1562, in octavo. 
 
 Delia Cognizionedi fe fteffo, dialoghi diGiatn- 
 battifta Muzt. The Knowledge cf one's felf, 
 Dialogues by Giarnbaltifta Muzi. In Firenze, 
 per li Giunti, 1595, in quarto. 
 
 Del Bene, libri IV. di Sforza Pallavicino della 
 Compagniadi Gcsu 'di poiCardinaleJ. On Good, 
 in four books, by Pallavicino a Jefuit (after-wards 
 Cardinal). In Roma, pel Corbelletti, 1644, 
 in quarto. 
 
 This Pallavicino is the famous writer of the Hif- 
 tory of the Council of Trent, oppofed to that 
 of Fra Paolo Sarpi. 
 
 I Dialoghi Morali, di Torquato Tasso. Moral 
 Dialogues, by&c. 
 
 This is the famous author of the JerufaJem. His 
 Dialogues are printed together with his other 
 works, to be named in another place. 
 
 Trattato della Vita fobria, del Magnifico M. Luigi 
 Cornaro, Nobile Veneziano. A Treatife on 
 Temperance, by, &c. In Pad ova, per Graziofo 
 Percacino, 1558, in quarto. 
 As famous a book as any in our language : 
 there is a tranflation of it into Englifh. 
 
 Difcorfi Filofofici, di Pompeo Della Barba. 
 Philofophical Difcourfes, by, &c. In Venezia, 
 per Giammaria Bonelii, 1553, in octavo. 
 Pompeo della Barba of Pefcia, was a phyfician 
 to Pope Pius IV. he had a younger brother 
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 called Simone, a man diftinguifhed as well as 
 he for his great learning. 
 Prudentifiimi e gravi Documenti circa la Elezione 
 della Moglie, di FrancefcoBARBARO, tradotti 
 dal Latino da Alberto Lollio. In Venezia, 
 per il Giolito, 1548, in octavo. 
 Alberto Lollio having lived many years in Fer- 
 rara, intitled himfelf Gentiluomo Ferrarefe, tho' 
 he was born and bred at Florence. Few of 
 our writers furpafs him in elegance. 
 Memoriale alle Maritate, di Gio. Leonardi. In 
 Napoli, 1593, in duodecimo. 
 This book I have not feen, but I regifter it 
 here, becaufe by its title it looks as if it were a 
 moral one. 
 Gio. Lodovico Vives da Valenza, dell' Ufficio 
 del Marito verfo la Moglie, dell* iftituzione 
 della Vedova Criftiana, Vergine, Maritata, e 
 Vedova, e dell' ammaeftrare i Fanciulli nell* 
 Arti liberali. In Milano, preflb Gio. Antonio 
 degli Antoni, 1561, in octavo. Tranflator 
 unknown. 
 
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 Libri di Filofofia Morale volgarizzati. 
 
 Books of Moral Philojophy, tranjlated into 
 Italian. 
 
 L* Etica d* ArisTotile, ridotra in compen- 
 dio da Brunetco Latini. Ariftotle's Ep- 
 ticks, abridged by Sec. In Lione, per Giovanni 
 de Turnes, 1568, in quarto. 
 This Latini was the famous matter of Dante* 
 who, in his poem, defcnbing hell, ungrate- 
 fully finks poor Brunetto into the moft difgrace- 
 ful place of it, without letting us know, why ? 
 
 Ammaeftramenti dcgli Antichi volgarizzati da 
 Bartolommeo di S. Concordio. Precepts of 
 the Ancient s, tranjlated into Italian by &c. In 
 Firenze, appreffo Domenico Maria Manni, in 
 quarto, with the Latin oppofitej and in Tre- 
 vigi, per EvangelitfaDeuchino, 1601, in oc- 
 tavo, with the Latin afide, in which tongue 
 Frate Bartolomee nrft writ it, and then tranflated 
 into pure Tufcan. 
 
 JJ Etica d' Aristotele, tradotta in volgar Fio- 
 rentino da Bernardo Segni. Ariftotk's Ep- 
 ticks, tranflated into Florentine Dialecl by &c. 
 In Firenze, per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550, 
 in quarto. 
 
 This is a very elegant book, but I know no- 
 thing of the tranflator, except that he was a 
 Florentine. 
 
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 I Caratteri Morali di Teofrasto, interpretati per 
 Anfaldo Ceb a. Tbeophraftus's Characters, tranf- 
 latedby Sec. In Geneva, per Giufeppe Pavoni, 
 1620, in quarto. 
 
 Anfaldo Ceba was of Genoa, and a man of great 
 learning as well as an elegant poer, both Latin 
 and Italian. I (hall regifter feme others of 
 his works in other places. 
 
 L' Arte di Corregger la vita umana, fcritta da 
 Epitteto Filofofo, cemmentata da Simpli- 
 cio, e tradotta da Ma ; teo Franccschi Vene- 
 ziano. 'The Art of correcting human Life, written 
 by Epitletus a Philofopher, commented by Sim- 
 plicius, and tranjlated by Sec. In Venezia, per 
 Francefco Ziletti, 1583, in octavo. 
 
 La Morale Filofofia di Epitteto e di Aristo- 
 tele, con Plutarco dell* Amor de' Genitori 
 verfo i Figliuoli, di Greco ridotta in volgare 
 da Giulio Balling. The Moral Philofophy of 
 Epitletus and Arijlotle, with Plutarch on the Love 
 cf Parents to Children, tranftated by &c. In 
 Venezia, pel Valvafibri, 1565, in octavo. 
 
 Commento di Jerocle Filofofo fopra i verfi di 
 PiTAGORA, dettid'oro, volgarmente tradotti 
 da Dardi Bembo. A Commentary by Hierocles, 
 the Philofopber, on Pithagoras y s Golden Verfes, 
 tranjlaled by Sec. In Venezia, per Barrezzo 
 Barezzi, 1604, in quarto. 
 
 Opere Morali di Senofonte, tradotte da Lodo- 
 vico Domenichi. Xenopbon's Moral Works, 
 by Sec. In Vinegia, preffb il Giolito, 1547, 
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 Opere Morali di Plutarco tradotte da Ledo- 
 vico Domenichi. Plutarch's Moral Works ; 
 by &c. In Lucca, per Vincenzk) Bufdrago, 
 1560, in octavo. 
 
 Opufcoli Morali di Plutarco, tradotti in vol- 
 gare da Marcantonio Gandini. Plutarch's 
 Moral Works, tranjlated by &c. In Venezia, 
 per Fioravante Prati, 1614, Tom. II. in 
 octavo. 
 
 Apottemmi di Plutarco, tradotti in Lingua 
 Tofcana da Giambernaido Gualandi. Plu- 
 tarch's Apophthegms, tranjlated by &c. In Ve- 
 nezia, preffo il Giolito, 1567, in quarto. 
 
 Apottemmi, raccolti da Erasmo e tradotti. da 
 Fausto di Longiano. Apophthegms, collected 
 by Erafmus, and tranjlated by &c. In Venezia, 
 prefib il Valgrifi, 1546, in octavo. 
 
 Le Tufculane di M. T. Cicerone, recate in Ita- 
 liano. Cicero's Tufculan Quejlions. Tnnflator 
 unknown ; but a good tranflation this is. In 
 Vinegia, per Vincenzio Valgrifi, 1544, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Le Opere Morali di M. T. Cicerone, cioe gli 
 Ufici, i Dialoghi, i Paradoffi, e il Sogno di 
 Scipione, tradotti da Federigo Vendramino 
 nobileViniziano, e corretti daLodovico Dolce. 
 Cicero's Moral Works ; that is, The Offices, the 
 Dialogues, the Paradoxes, and the Dream cf 
 Scipio, tranjlated by Federigo Vendramino a Ve- 
 netian Nobleman, and corrected by Lodovico Dolce. 
 In Vinegia, prefib il Giolito, 1564, in octavo. 
 This is the fifth edition. 
 
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 II Lelio, Dialogo di Cicerone dell* Amicizia, tra- 
 dotto in Lingua Tofcana da Orazio Carda- 
 neto. Lelius, a Dialogue of Cicero on Fnend- 
 Jhip, tranflated by &c. In Fiorenza, per Lo- 
 renzo Torrentino, 1560, in quarto. 
 
 Seneca de' Benefici, tridotto in volgar Fiorentino 
 da Benedetto Varchi. Seneca on Benefits^ 
 tranflated by &C. In Fiorenza, per ll Torren- 
 tino, 1554, inquaro. 
 
 Boezio SEVtRiNO de.!a Co^folazione dd!a Filo- 
 fofia, trado to di Lingua Laana in voigar Fio- 
 rentino da Benedetto Varchi. Boetius Seve- 
 rinus on the Consolation of Pbilofophy y tranflated 
 by &c. with notes by Benedetto Titi, In Fi- 
 renze, per Giorgio Marc fcotti, 15^3, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 Of Varchi I (hall have occafion to fpeak in 
 another place. 
 
 The fame book was alfo tranflated by Anfrlmo 
 Tanz>, printed in Venice by Nicolini, 1527, 
 in octavo; by Tomafo Tamburinj, printed 
 in Palermo by Giufeppe BWagni, 1657, in duo- 
 decimo-, and by Maeftro Albfrto, in Fi- 
 renze appreflb Domenico Maria Manni, 1735, 
 in quarto. This laft, by Alberto, is tne 
 more pleafing to read. It is remarkable, that 
 Alberto tranflated it while he was in prifon in 
 Venice, 
 
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 Filofofia Civile e Politica. Civil Philofophy 
 and Politicks, 
 
 LI B R O dellaVita Civile da Matteo Palmieri 
 Cittadino Fiorentino. A Book on Civil Life, 
 by &c. In Firenze, per li Eredi di Filippo di 
 Giunta, 1529, in octavo. 
 Giambattifta Gelli tells us that Matteo Palmieri 
 of Florence, a philofopher and poet, writ- an 
 epick poem that was never printed, becaufe the 
 author fomewhere in it advanced this heretical 
 opinion, that our fouls were angels ; which 
 was alfo the opinion of Origenes, Lactantius 
 Firmianus, and others. 
 
 Vita Civile, di Paolo Mattia Doria. On Civil 
 Life, by &c. Angufta, (a falfe date, the book 
 was printed in Naples) 17 10, in quarto. 
 
 La Civil Converfazione di Stefano Guazzo Gen- 
 tiluomo di Cafale di Monferrato. On Civil 
 Converfation, by &c. In Venezia, per Alto- 
 bello Salicato, 1574, in quarto. 
 
 Dialoghi piacevoli di Stefano Guazzo. Familiar 
 Dialogues^ by &c. In Venezia, per Antonio 
 Bertano, 1586, in quarto. 
 The two above books of Guazzo are not very 
 pleafing to me, becaufe his ftile and language 
 are much neglected, as I have already obferved. 
 
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 II Galateo di Monfignor Giovanni Della Casa, 
 Galateo, by &c. In Roma, per Valerio Do* 
 rico, 1560, in octavo. 
 
 This little treatife is looked upon by many Ita- 
 lians as the moft elegant thing, as to ftile, that 
 we have in our language ; at leaft it is the moft 
 elaborated. Cafa was one of our greateft wri- 
 ters in the fixteenth century ; but of him in an- 
 other place, 
 
 Trattato degli Ufici comuni fra gli Amici foperiori 
 ed inferiori, diMonfignorGiovanniDELLACASA. 
 A Treatife on the common Duties between fuperior 
 and inferior Friends ', by &c. In Milano, per 
 Giovan Antonio degli Antoni, 1368, in octavo, 
 
 II Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldefar Cas* 
 tiglione. The Courtier, by &c. In Vene- 
 zia, nelle Cafe d' Aldo Romano e d' Anvirea d* 
 Afolo fuo fuocero neii' Anno 1528, in folio. 
 Few books made fo much noife as this when it 
 was firft publiflied ; now it is much prailed, 
 and little read, 
 
 Della Politica, overo Scienza Civile, fecondo la 
 Dottrina d* Ariftotile, Libri VIII. di Felice 
 Figliucci, fcrittti in modo di Diaiogo. On 
 Politicks, or- Civil Science, according to the Doc- 
 trine of Arijlotle, in 8 Bocks, by &c. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Giambatufta Somaico, 15^3, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Lo Stato delle Republiche fecondo la mente d* 
 Ariftotile con Efempi moderni, &V c^^icclo 
 Vixo de' Gozzi Ra&i.geo. The State of Re- 
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 publicks, according to the Opinion of Arijlotle, 
 with modem Examples, &c. hy &c. In Vene- 
 zia, preflb Aldo, 1591, in quarto* 
 Pod id Libri del Governo di Stato, di Ciro 
 Spontone. Twelve Books on Government, by 
 &c. la Verona, per Angiolo Tamo, 1600, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Pella Ragion di Stato di Federigo Buonaven- 
 tura, On the Reafon of State, by Sec. In 
 Urbino, per AlefTandro Corvino, 1623, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Del Governo de' Regni e delle Republiche di 
 Francefco Sansivino. On the Government of 
 Kingdoms and Commonwealths, by &c. In Ve- 
 nez : a, preflo il Sanfovino, 1561. 
 
 L' Iftituzione del Figliuolo d* un Prencipe da X. 
 anni fino aquellidella Difcrczione, del Fausto 
 da Longi ;no. The Inftitution of a Prince's Son 
 from ten Tears to the Age of Difcretion, by &c. 
 In Vinegia, 1542, in octavo, without Prin- 
 ter's Name. 
 
 Faufto da Longiano was one of the greatefl La- 
 tin fcholars wcever had, and his Italian writings 
 arc ftill in reputation, though many of his con- 
 temporaries, and even fubfequent writers treated 
 him with contempt. 
 
 Confiderazioni politiche e morali di Lpdovico 
 Z u c c ol 1 . Political and moral Confi derations, 
 by &c. In Venezia, per Mario Ginami, 1561, 
 in quarto. 
 
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 II Principe, di Giambattifta Pigna. The Prince^ 
 by &c. In Venezia, per Francefco Sanfovino, 
 1 56 1, in quarto. 
 
 Pigna was one of the many learned courtiers 
 of Alfonfo d' Efte II. duke of Ferrara. He 
 was the difciple ofGiraldi Cinthio, but in Italian 
 he writ better than his matter. 
 
 II Cittadino di Republica, di AnfaldoCEBA. The 
 Citizen of a Republick, fa Sec. In Genova, 
 per Giufeppe Pavoni, 161 8, in folio. 
 
 Confiderazioni Civili fopra l'lftoria di Francefco 
 Guicciardini e di Altri Iftorici, trattate per 
 modo di difcorfo da Remigio Fiorentino con 
 CXLV. avvertimenti di Francefco Guicciar- 
 dini. Political Confiderations on the Hi/lories of 
 Guiceiardini and others, treated by way of dif- 
 courfe, by Remigio Fiorentino, with CXLV Ad- 
 vices, by Francis Guiceiardini. In Venezia, 
 per Damian Zenaro, 1582, in quarto. 
 
 Confiderazioni diGiambatciftaLEONi fopra l'lfto- 
 ria d'ltalia di Francefco Guicciardini. In 
 Venezia, per Giambattifta Ciotti, 1599, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Aforifmi Politici cavati dali* Iftoria d' Italia di M. 
 Francefco Guicciardini, da Girolamo Ca- 
 nini d' Anghiari. In Venezia, preftb Antonio 
 Pinelli, 1625, in duodecimo. 
 
 Configli e Avvertimenti dj Francefco Guicci- 
 ardini in materia di Republica. In Parigi, 
 j)er Fcderigo Morello, 1576, in quarto. 
 
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 Avvertimenti dell' Iftcria del Guicciardini 
 fcritti dal Cavalier Ciro Spontone. In Ber- 
 gamo, per Comino Ventura, 1608, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Delia Perfezione della Vita Politica di Paolo 
 Paruta Cavaliere e Procuratore di San Marco. 
 In Venezia, per Domenico Nicolini, 1579, 
 in folio. 
 
 Difcorfi politici , con un Soliloquio nel fine, in cui 
 1' Autore fa 1' efame di tutto il Corfo della fua 
 Vita ; di Paolo Paruta. In Venezia, pd Ni- 
 colini, 1599, * n 9 uarro ' 
 The foliloquy at the end of this book of Pa- 
 ruta fhews him a better Chriftian than the ge- 
 nerality of Politicians are. 
 
 Libro della Republica de* Veneziani compofta, 
 per Donato Giannotti. In Roma, per An- 
 tonio Blado, 1 540, in quarto. 
 
 Difcorfi di Guerra di Afcanio Centorio degli 
 Ortensi. In Vinegia, prefibil Giolito, 1558, 
 1559, 1560, in five vol. quarto. 
 
 Difcorfi di Monfignor Vincenzio Borghini. In 
 
 Fiorenza, preflb i Giunti, 1584 and 1585, in 
 
 two vol. quarto. 
 Difcorfi di Nicolo Macchiavelli fopraleDechc 
 
 di Tito Livio, 
 II Principe, di Nicolo Macchiavelli. 
 
 Both thefe political treatifes are printed with /"' 
 
 his works mentioned elfewhere. 
 
 This book, entitled, The Prince, is not only 
 
 the wickedeft work of this writer, but the book 
 
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 that has caufed more mifchief in Europe, than 
 any extant. I am ufed to call it, The Bible of 
 the Tyrants. Yet this author, who was fo great 
 an admirer and panegyrift of the moft violent 
 and arbitrary rogues of every age* was himfelf 
 a very honeft goodnatured man, if the account 
 fent to us by his contemporaries may be cre- 
 dited ; nor does it even appear by any of his 
 writings, he was that unbeliever and fanguinary 
 man that he ftrives to make his reader. This 
 inconfiftency, in his different characters of man 
 and writer, did not efcape Wiquefort^ the au- 
 thor of the Ambaffador^ who therefore fays, 
 that he thinks Machiavtlh's Prince was rather 
 intended as a fatire on, than a lecture to, Sove* 
 reigns and Politicians. 
 
 It may not be amifs to inform the foreigners, 
 that the Academicians delta Crufca, quoting 
 his works in their Dictionary, and many other 
 Italian writers never call him Macchiavelliy 
 but II Segretario Fiorentino. The reafon is, 
 becaufe Macchiavelli's works are prohibited:, 
 
 Gafparo Contarini, de* Maaiftrati e della Re- 
 
 pubiica Veneta, (tranflated from the Latin.) 
 
 In Venezia, 1563, in octavo. 
 Difcorfo Ariftocratico fopra il Governo de* Vene- 
 
 ziani. In Venezia, 1670, in duodecimo ; 
 
 (a falfe date) it was printed in Germany. 
 Opinionedi Paolo Sarpi, come debba governarll 
 
 la Republica Veneta. In Venezia, 1681, in 
 
 duodecimo. 
 
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 This is the famous Fra Paolo, author of the 
 
 Hiftory of the Council of Trent. 
 Squittinio della Liberta Vcneta. In Mirandola, 
 
 1 61 2, in quarto. 
 
 The author of this book is thought to be the 
 
 marquis of Bed emar, ambaffador from Spain 
 
 to Venice, who conducted the famous confpi- 
 
 racy againft the Venetians. 
 Bernardo Trevisan; trattato della Laguna di 
 
 Venezia. In Venezia, 1 5 1 5, in quarto. 
 Trattato dell* Interdetto di Paolo V. e la Rep:di 
 
 Venezia. In Venezia, 1606, in quarto. 
 Fra Paolo. Confiderazioni fopra le Cenfurc di 
 
 Paolo V. In Venezia, 1606, in quarto. 
 Fra Paolo. Apologia per le Oppofizioni fatte 
 
 dal Cardinal Bellarmino alii trattati di Gio. 
 
 Gersone fopra la validita delle Scpmuniche. 
 
 In Venezia, 1606, in quarto. 
 It would be endlefs to regifter here all the poli- 
 tical books generally filled with unchriftian vi- 
 rulence, printed on the occafion of the difputes 
 between the Pope Paul V. and theRepublickof 
 Venice. Every body knows, that the great 
 champion of the Republick againft the Pope 
 was the above-named Fra Paolo Sarpi, a Servite 
 monk, whofe name is in the greatefl: venera- 
 tion among the Venetians, and whofe poliiical 
 maxims are ftill ftrictly followed by thole wife 
 Senators. Yet the refpect I have for his learn- 
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 guage and ftile, which are fo bad, that I could 
 never read any of his books. 
 
 Difcorfi del Conte Annibale Romei Gentiluomo 
 Ferrarefe. Difcourfes, by &c. In Venezia, per 
 Francefco Ziletti, 1585, in quarto. 
 Tajfo, in one of his dialogues, praifes much 
 this Count Annibal Romei. 
 
 Opere Cavallerefche di Francefco Birago. Knightly 
 Works, by &c. In Bologna, per Giufeppe 
 Longhi, 1 686, in quarto. 
 
 II Duello di Giambattifta Pigna. On Duelling, 
 by Sec. In Venezia, per Vincenzo Valgrirl, 
 1554, in quarto. 
 
 Pigna was difciple, and afterwards rival and 
 enemy, of Giraldi Cintio, who charged him with 
 plagiarifm from the works of his own mailer; 
 others accufe him of the fame crime from others. 
 His manner of writing is very pleafing to me, 
 and he was a man of extenfive and curious 
 knowledge. 
 
 II Duello di Dario Attendolo. On Duelling, by 
 &c. In Vinegia, pel Giolito, 1565. 
 Attendolo was an honed lawyer, a gallant fol- 
 dier, and a tolerable poet too, by what appears 
 from a few verfes ftill remaining of him. 
 
 II Duello di Fausto da Longiano. On Duel- 
 ling, by &c. In Venezia, per Vincenzo Val- 
 grifi, 1552, in octavo. 
 
 II Duello del Muzio Giuftinopolitano. On Duel- 
 ling, by &c. In Vinegia, pel Giolito, 1558, 
 
 in octavo. 
 
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 Dell* Ingiuftizia del Duello e di Coloro che lo 
 permettono, di Giambatcifta Susio. On the 
 Injuflice of Duelling, and thofe that permit it, 
 by &c. In Vinegia, pel Giolito, 1555, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Thefe books, for and againft duelling, were 
 once in great repute among us, becaufe duel- 
 ling was then as fafhionable in Italy as in 
 France before Lewis XIV. but now they are 
 almoft entirely forgot, as they deferve. 
 Sufio of Mirandola was much confideredin his 
 time for his (harp debates with Muzio on 
 duelling. 
 Contra 1* Ufodel Duello, per Antonio Massa.' 
 Jgainji the Cujiom of Duelling, by &c. In Ve- 
 neftia, pel Tramezzino, 1555, in oftavo. 
 Difcorfi della Precedenza de* Principi e della Mi- 
 Iizia, di Sperone Speroni. Difcourfes on the 
 Precedency of Princes and on Soldiery, by &c. 
 In Venezia, per Giovanni Alberti, 1598, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Speroni, born of a noble family of Padua, was 
 fo much efteemed by his countrymen, (fays 
 Moreri in his dictionary) qiC Us lui donnoient le 
 tiom d* Arijlotle, d' Homere, et de Demofthene. 
 He was really a man of immenfe learning, and 
 one of the greateft fcholars that ever came out 
 of the famous and ancient Univerfity of Padua. 
 TaJJo profeffed a great efteem and friendship for 
 him ; and there is fcarce a Jearned man of that 
 age but praifes Speroni. The Academicians 
 
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 della Crufca have adopted his Italian writing 1 ? as 
 genuine Italian, and his works have been nobly- 
 reprinted all together, in Venezia apprefifo Do> 
 menico Occhi, 1740, in five volumes, in quar- 
 to. Shall I dare after this, to tax his ftile of 
 patavinity, difpraife his Dialogo d' Amore, and 
 (how the lead contempt for his Italian poetry ? 
 II Meflaggero, Dialogo di TorquatoTASSo. The 
 Publick Mcjfenger, a Dialogue, by &c. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Bernardo Giunti, 1582, in quarto. 
 This, and fome other of Tajfo's works, fhow 
 that he was not only the greateft poet, but the 
 man of the moft extenfive knowledge of his 
 time in Italy. 
 
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 Filofofi Naturali. Natural Philofophers* 
 
 HIeronymi Manfredi : Liber de Homine 
 et confervatione Sanitatis. A Book on Mart 
 and on the Prefervation of Health, by &c. 
 Bononias, per Ugonem Rugerium et Domi- 
 num Bertochium, 1474, in folio. 
 
 Hieronymi Manfredi Medici et Aftrologi Bo- 
 nonienfis, Traclatus de Peftilentia. ATreatife 
 on Plague, by &c. Bononias, 1478, in folio. 
 Though thefe two books have Latin titles, yet 
 they are in Italian. 
 
 Giovanni Mesue delle Medicine femplici. On 
 fimple Medicines^ by &c. 1475, in foiio. Trans- 
 lator unknown. 
 
 Thefaurus Pauperum. Libro compilato e fatto per 
 Maeftro Pietro Spano. The Poor's Treafure. 
 A Book compiled and made by &c. In Venezia, 
 per Gio. Ragazzo e Gio. Maria Compagni, 
 1494, in quarto. 
 
 The above books, venerable for their antiquity, 
 1 did not chufe to leave out, though I know 
 nothing of their authors. 
 
 Difcorfidi Pier Andrea Matteolo ne' Libri VL 
 di Diofcoride della Materia Medicinale. Dif- 
 courfes, by &c. on the fix Books of Diofcorides, 
 on the Materia Medica. In Venezia, per il 
 Valgrifi, 1568. in two vol. folio, and apprefib 
 Bartolomeo degli Alberti, 1604, two vol. fo- 
 lio, with cuts. Matteolo was a famous botanift. 
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 II Ricettario Medicinale neceffario a tutti i Medici 
 c Spezijli. The Medicinal Treafury of Recipes , 
 necejjary for all Pbyjicians and Apothecaries. In 
 Firenze, per i Giunti, 1567, in folio. Author 
 unknown. 
 
 Del Governo della Pcfte, trattato di Lodovico 
 Antonio Muratori. On the Cure of the 
 Plague, by&cc. In Modem, pel Soliani, 17 14, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Muratori, librarian to the duke of Modena, died 
 a few years ago. His name is known through- 
 out all Europe for his many works, and par- 
 ticularly for his hiftorical. Few people have 
 been more learned than he, and none perhaps 
 lb laborious. 
 
 Trattato fopra il male delle Petecchie, Pefte, &c- 
 di Giorgio Rivet ti. A Treatife on the Evil 
 of the Spotted Fever, Plague, &c. by &c. In 
 Bologna, per lo Bcnacci, 1542, in odtavo. 
 
 Trattato del Legno foffile nuovamente fcoperto, 
 nel quale brevemente s' accenna la varia e mu- 
 tabil natura di detto Legno, &c. di Francefco 
 Stelluti. A Treatife on fojfile Wood newly 
 difcovered, in which its varying and changeable 
 Nature isftiortly touched upon, &c. by &c. In 
 Roma, 1637, in folio. 
 
 Stelluti was of Fabbriano, and profefled phy- 
 fick in Rome with great reputation towards the 
 beginning of the feventeenth century. 
 
 Diicorfo della Natura del Vino, di Paolo Mini. 
 A Difcourfe on the Nature of Wine, by Sec. In 
 Firenze, per Giorgio Marefcotri, 1596, in 
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 Mini was of Florence ; he profeffed phyfick 
 and poetry. 
 
 Filofofia Naturale di AlefTandro Pi ccolomini. 
 Natural Philofopby, by &c. In Venezia, per 
 Francefco Francefchi, 1585, in quarto. 
 
 Ddla grandezza della Terra e dell' Acqua. On 
 the Amplitude of the Earth and of the Water ; by 
 the fame Piccolomini. In Venezia, per Girola- (/ 
 mo Ziletti, 1558, in quarto. 
 Piccolomini was of Siena, of the family of 
 /Eneas Silvius, that was Pope under the name 
 of Pius II. He did not only write with the 
 greatefl elegance in Italian, but was very learned 
 in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and was well 
 verfed in divinity, jurifprudence, phyfick, phi- 
 lofophy, mathematicks, and poetry. In his 
 youth, he had been too light and free in his 
 morals, as well as his writings, but foon re- 
 formed, and became pious and charitable. I 
 fhall haveoccafion to name him in other places. 
 
 Della Natura delle Comete, di AlefTandro Mar- 
 chetti. On the Nature of Comets, by <kc. In 
 Firenze, alia Condocta, 1684, in quarto. 
 This Marchetti was the tranflacor of Lucretius, 
 of which performance I fhall fpeak in its place, 
 and fay fomething of him. 
 
 Trattato delle Meteore, di Francefco De'-Vieri. 
 A Treatife on Mdteors, by &c. In Firenze, pel 
 Marefcotti, 1573, in oftavo. 
 This De Fieri of Florence was nephew to ano- 
 ther Francefco de Vieri, much renowned bo:h 
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 for their learning, andefpecially for their know- 
 ledge in the Greek tongue. 
 Penfieri Diverfi, di Aleflandro Tassoni. Divers 
 Thoughts, by&cc. In Venezia, 1646, in quarto. 
 Of Taffoni, author of the celebrated poem, en- 
 titled, La Secchia Rapila i of which I fliall fpeak 
 when I come to it. 
 
 Dialogo di Galileo Galilei fopra i due Maflini 
 Siftemi del Mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano. 
 A Dialogue, by &c. on the two great Syjiems of 
 the World, that of Ptolemy and of Copernicus. 
 In Firenze, per Giovan Battifta Landini, 1632, 
 in quarto. 
 
 This is the celebrated Galileo, who was in the 
 inquifition for fix years, and put to the torture, 
 for faying, that the earth moved. The moment 
 he was fet at liberty, he looked up to the fky 
 and down to the ground, and, damping with 
 his foot, in a contemplative mood, faid, Eppur 
 fi move ', that is, ftill it moves, meaning the 
 earth. I will not omit to inform the reader, 
 that Galileo was a poer, and what is more fur- 
 prifing, a burlefque and eafy poet, a qualification 
 not eafily met in a profound mathematician, as 
 he certainly was. We have an excellent letter 
 of him to one Rinuccini, in which, making a 
 comparifon between Ariojlo and Taffo, he gives 
 his vote for Arioso ; yet he does it with mo- 
 defty, far from putting on that petulant air 
 of decifion, peculiar to the French writers; 
 fuch as Boileau, Bouhours, and Voltaire, who, 
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 with little or no knowledge of our language 
 and poetry, do not only give Tajfo- the prefe- 
 rence on Ariojlo, but treat them with contempt, 
 as if they were Pradons or Bourfaults, and as 
 if they had a larger (hare of wit and know- 
 ledge than all the Italians together. 
 Galileo's works are written in very pure lan- 
 guage, and have a place in the Dictionary della 
 Crufca. The belt edition of them is that of 
 Padua, 1744, four vol. in quarto. 
 
 Saggi di Naturali Efperienze fatte nell' Accade- 
 mia del Cimento defcritte dal Segretario di effa 
 Accademia. EJfays of Natural Experiments 
 made in the Accademy del C'tnento, defcribed by the 
 Secretary of the fame Accademy \ that is, Count 
 Lorenzo Magalotti. In Firenze, p^r Giu- 
 feppe Cocchini, 169 1, in folio, with figures. 
 
 Efperienze intorno alia Generazione deg? Infetti, 
 fatte da France fco Redi. Experiments on the 
 Generation of Infeffs, made by &c. In Firenze, 
 all' infegna della Stella, 1668, in quarto. 
 
 Efperienze intorno a diverfe Cofe Naturali, e par- 
 ticolarmente quelle che ci fjn portate dall* In- 
 die, del Redi. Experiments on divers Natural 
 Things , and particularly thofe that are brought 
 to us from the Indies, by &c. In Firenze, all' 
 Infegna della Nave, 1671, in quarto. 
 
 OfTervazioni intorno agli Animal viventi che fi tro- 
 
 vano negii Animali viventi, del Redi. Qbfer- 
 
 vations on thofe living Animals that are found in 
 
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 living Animals, by &c. In Firenze, per Pier 
 Martini, 1684, in quarto. 
 
 OfTervazioni intorno aile Vipere del Redi. Oh- 
 fervations on Vipers, by Sec. In Firenze, all' 
 Infegna della Stella, 1664, in quarto. 
 
 Lettera del Redi fopra alcune oppofizioni fatte 
 intorno aliefue OfTervazioni intorno alle Vipere. 
 A Letter of (the fame) Redi on fome Oppojitions 
 made to bis Oh fervations on Vipers. In Firenze, 
 1670, in quarto. 
 
 Redi was the firft deftroyer of the old opinion 
 of equivocal generation , and as good a poet 
 as a philofopher. 
 
 Pareri di Lionardo da Capoa, divifo in ottoRa- 
 gionamenti ne' quali partitamenre trattandoli 
 1' Origine e V ProgrcfTo della Medicina, chia- 
 ramente 1' Incertezza della medefima fi fa mani- 
 fefta. Lionardo d.z Capua's Opinions, divided 
 into eight Difcourfes, wherein, examining the 
 Origin and Progrefs of Phyfick, its Uncertainty is 
 clearly demcnfiraied. In Napoli, per Jacopo 
 Raillard, 1689, in quarto. 
 
 Lezioni di Lionardo di Capoa. Lectures, by 
 &c. In Napoli, per Salvador Caftaldo, 1683, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Lionardo was a phyfician very famous in his 
 time. 
 
 Del Ghiaccio e della Coagulazione, Trattati del Pa- 
 dre Daniello Bartoli GefuitJ. On Ice, and 
 Coagulation, Treatifes by &c. In Roma, per 
 lo Varcfe, 1681, in quarto. 
 
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 This Jefuit was of Ferrara. The lovers of the 
 Italian language are obliged to him for the la- 
 bour he beftowed in illuftrating it in many of 
 his works. The above philofophical treatife is 
 a very well written thing. 
 
 Le dodici Pietre preziofe, di Andrea Bacci. Oft 
 the twelve precious Stones, by &c. In Roma, 
 1 58 1, in quarto. 
 
 This is a very curious book, but I know no- 
 thing of its author. 
 
 Offervazioni fulle Chiocciole, con 450 figure di 
 Teftacei diverfi, del Padre Filippo Bon an r. 
 Ob J ervalions on Shells, with 450 figures of tefia- 
 ceous Bodies, by &c. In Roma, 1681, 2 vol. 
 in quarto. 
 
 L* Arte Vetraria, di Antonio Neri Fiorentino. 
 'The Art of Glaf -making, by &c. In Firenz?, 
 per i Giunt ; , 16 12, in quarto. 
 This is a book of reputation, and very fcarce. 
 It has been printed in Englifh. 
 
 I Semplici, di Luigi Anouillar a. The Simples, 
 by &c. In Vinegia, per Vincenzo Valgrifi, 
 1 561, in octavo. 
 
 This Anguillara was the firft botanift that was 
 entrufted with the care of the garden of fimples 
 at Padua, eftablifhed in the year 1546, for the 
 ufe of that univerfity. 
 
 Trattato della Neve e del her frefco, di Giambat- 
 tifta Scarampo. A Treatife on Snow and cold 
 drinking, by &c. In Fiorenze, pel Sermatelli,.,. 
 1574, in quarto. 
 
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 Del ber caldo coftumato dagli antichi Romani, di 
 Antonio Persio. On hot drinking, ufedbythe 
 ancient Romans, by &c. In Venezia, per Giam- 
 battifta Ciotti, 1593, in octavo. 
 Zeno laments much the lofs of an Italian voca- 
 bulary that this Per/to had compiled, in which 
 he intended to point out the conformity of the 
 Greek, Latin, and Italian idioms. The ma- 
 nufcript, left imperfect by the death of the 
 author, was loft by fome ignorant heir. 
 
 Poeti
 
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 &ik^$fcfckkM>l>&>&,M>&MjM,&fafc$bM>$& 
 Poeti Epici. Epick Poets. 
 
 LA Divina Commedia di Dante. The Di- 
 vine Comedy of Dante. Per Joan Numeifter, 
 1472, in folio; and in Mantua, per Giorgio 
 e Paolo Tedefchi, 1472, in folio. One of 
 thefe two editions was the firft of this poem. 
 It would take up too much room to enumerate 
 all the good editions of Dante's famous poem, 
 but if I may recommend one to an Englifhman 
 it is that of Giambattifta Pafquali, printed in 
 Venice, in 3 volumes, octavo, with fhort notes. 
 There is fo much to be faid about Dante, that I 
 know not how to begin without running into 
 too great a length for this place ; therefore I 
 refer the reader to an Englifti diflfertation on the 
 Italian poetry, printed by R.DodQey, in which 
 I have given his character and a fpecimen of 
 his poetry. His commentators are Guido 
 Terzago, Benvenuto Rembaldi, Jacopo 
 Lana, Criftoforo Landino, Bernardino Da- 
 niello, AlefTandro Vellutello, Lodovico 
 Dolce, and Baftiano de' Rossi; 
 II Quadriregio, o Poema de' quattro Regni, di 
 Monfignor Federigo Frezzi Vefcovo di Fo- 
 ligno. The Quadriregto, or the Poem of the 
 four Kingdoms, by &c. The fir ft edition is in 
 Perugia, per Maeftro Steftano Arns, 148 1, 
 in folio ; the belt is in Foligno, per Pompeo 
 
 Campana,
 
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 Campana, 2 vol. in quarto. The firft contains 
 the Poem, the fecond is made up with notes, 
 explanations, &c. This work, in my opinion, 
 is liitle inferior to Dante himfelf. 
 
 Difcorfo in verli dalla Creazione del Mondo fino 
 alia Venuta di Gesu Crifto. A Difcourfe in 
 Verfes on the Creation of the World to the Coming 
 of our Saviour ; by Antonio Cornazano, 1472, 
 in quarto. 
 
 L' Orlando Innamorato di Matteo Maria Bojar- 
 do, per Pellegrino Scandiano. Orlando Ena- 
 mour ed, by &c. The firft edition was in Scan- 
 diano, per Pellegrino de' Pafquali, 1496: 
 
 L' Orlando Innamorato del Bojardo, rifatto d3 
 Francefco Berni. The Orlando Enamoured, by 
 Bojardo, tranjlated into better Italian by Francis 
 Berni. The beft edition, in Firenze, 1725, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Bojardo was the greateft inventor that Italy ever 
 produced ; and if Berni's Rifacimento was not 
 flamed with many immoralities, it would be 
 the moft plcafing poetical thing in our language. 
 
 II Filogine del Bojardo, 1535, in oflavo. It is 
 faid, that there is a copy of this book in Weft- 
 minfter library, perhaps it is the only one 
 extant. 
 
 II Mambriano, Poema di Francefco Cieco da 
 Ferrara. Mambriano, a Poem, by &c. Fer- 
 raria?, per Joannem Baciochum Mondenum, 
 1509, in quarto. 
 
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 Apoftolo Zeno, in his notes to Fontanini's 
 Eloquenza Italiana, regiftered fix editions of 
 this poem, and praifes it much. 
 
 II Morgante Maggiore, di Meffer Luigi Pulci 
 Fiorentino. Morgante Maggiore^ by &c. The 
 beft edition, in Firenze, 1732. The firft was 
 made in Florence, in or before the year 1488. 
 Many learned people are of opinion, that this 
 poem was for the greateft part written by the 
 famous Politjan, and that Marfilius Ficinus 
 had fome hand in it. 
 
 Marfilius Ficinus of Florence was born in the 
 year 1432, applied himfelf particularly to the 
 ftudy of the Greek and Latin tongues, followed 
 the Platonick feci, and tranllaced into Latin 
 the works of Plato, and of feveral great men 
 who maintained the doctrines of that philofo- 
 pher, as Plotinus, Jamblichus, Proclus, ic. 
 We have the works of Marfilius Ficinus printed 
 at Bale in 156 1 and 1570, in 2 vol. folio. 
 
 II Driadeo, compilato da Luca Pulci. Driadeo, 
 by &c. In Firenze, per Francefco di Dino di 
 Jacopo Fiorentino, 1489, in quarto, This 
 poem isvery fcarce. 
 
 II CirifFo Calvaneo di Luca Pulci. Ciriffo Cal- 
 vaneo, by &c. In Firenze, per i Giunti, 1572, 
 in quarto. The author of thefe two poems 
 was the brother of Luigi Pulci. 
 
 Amazonide, di Giovanni Boccaccio. Amazo" 
 
 nide, by &c. In Ferrara, without date or 
 
 printer's name. 
 
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 Boccaccio is thought to be the inventor of the 
 Ottava Rima ; and this poem was the firft that 
 was written in that meafure. 
 Poema della Tefeide, di Giovanni Boccaccio. 
 A Poem, entitled Tefeide, by &c. In Ferrara, 
 per Carneno Agoftini, 1475, in folio. 
 Orlando Furiofo, di Lodovico Ariosto. The 
 moll valued edition is that of Francefco Fran- 
 cefchi, 1584, in quarto, becaufe of the cuts 
 by Porro. 
 
 This poem is a continuation of BojARDo'sOr- 
 Jando Innamorato, as VirgiW poem is of Ho- 
 mer's. The foreigners in general think Tasso's 
 Jerufalem the beft poem in our language ; but 
 the greatefl part of the natives give the firft 
 place to the Orlando Furiofo, and I think them 
 in the right. The illuftrators and commen- 
 tators of Ariojlo are numberlefs ; the principal 
 ones are, Simone Fornari, Lodovico Dolce, 
 Giovanni Orlandi, Giufeppe Malatesta, 
 Girolamo Ruscelli, Orazio Toscanella, 
 Francefco Gaburacc'i, Gregono Caloprese, 
 and Laura Terracina. 
 L' Italia Liberata da Goti, di Giovangiorgio 
 Trissino. Italy delivered from the Goths, by 
 &c. In Roma, per Valerio e Luigi Dorici, 
 1547, in octavo. 
 
 This poem is in blank verfe, which Triffino 
 would fain have introduced inftead of the Terza 
 Rima of Dante or the Ottava Rima of Boccac- 
 cio i but few people did follow him, and ju- 
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 dicious Italians (hall never prefer his unharmo- 
 nious metre to the other two. 
 L' Amadigi, di Bernardo Tasso. In Venezia, 
 per Gabriello Giolito, 1560, in quarto. 
 This poem is a free tranflation of a Spanidi 
 romance, entitled Amadis, fo much efteemed 
 by Henry the third king of France, that h e 
 placed it in his library between Plato and Arif- 
 totle. Bernardo was father of Torquato Tajjo. 
 II Floridante. Poema non finito, di Bernardo 
 Tasso. Floridante, a Poem not finijhed, by &c. 
 In Bologna, 1587, in quarto. 
 II Mefchino, Poema, di Tullia d' Aragona. 
 Mefchino, a Poem, by &c. In Venezia, per i 
 Seflfa, 1560, in quarto. 
 This poem is a tranflation of an old Italian 
 romance, entitled, // Guerino detto il Mefchino. 
 Of Hullia I fhall fpeak in another place. 
 II Giron Cortefe, di Luigi Alamanni. Giron 
 the courteous, by Sec. In Venezia, per Com in 
 da Trino, 1549^ in quarto. 
 L' Avarchide, di Luigi Alamanni. In Fi- 
 renze, per Filippo Giunti, 1570, in quarto. 
 Alamanni was one of our mod elegant poets, 
 but this Avarchide is not the moftpleafing of his 
 works. 
 L' Alamanna, di Anton Francefco Oliviero. 
 In Venezia, per Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1567, in 
 quarto. This poem is in blank verfe. 
 La Gerufalemme liberata, di Torquato Tasso. 
 Jerufalem delivered, by &c. The mod valued 
 
 edition
 
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 edition of this poem is that of Genova, per 
 Girolamo Bartoli, 1590, becaufe of the cuts 
 by Bernardo Castello. There are two more 
 valuable editions of it : one was made here in 
 London ; the other in Venice, by Giambattifta 
 Albrizi ; both with noble cuts. 
 
 The great parts of Tasso raifed him many 
 enemies. Strange perverfion in human na- 
 ture ! The Academicians della Crufca, incenfed 
 
 - at many people, who exalted him even above 
 Ariojio, made him almoft mad with their cri- 
 ticifms on his poem : to add to his vexation, 
 one Cami!lo Camilli, thinking the Jeruia- 
 lem not finifhed, fcribbled five cantos as a con- 
 tinuation to it, which raifed. fo much the hot 
 temper of our poet, that he went to Venice 
 with a refolution to fight this foolifh coniinua- 
 tor , and, meeting him in St. Mirco's fquare, 
 challenged him. Camil/i y knowing well ^that 
 TaJJo was the firft fwordfman of his age, re- 
 filled the challenge, and was contented to be 
 beaten mod unmercifully by the poet, Taffo 
 had forfeited his life by this violent proceeding 
 in fuch a place, but the Venetian Senators par- 
 doned him in confideration of his great merit. 
 Taffo, when only fixteen years old, had printed 
 another epick poem, entitled Rinalh. 
 
 Afto'fo boriofo, che fiegue la mone, di Ruggi-ro. 
 pocma, di Marco Guazzo. Ajiolfo the vain- 
 glorious, a Sequel to 1 be Death of Ruggiero. A 
 Poem, by &c. In Venezia, per Comin da Trino, 
 j 54.Q, in quarto. La 
 
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 La Continuazione di Orlando Furiofo, con la 
 morte di Ruggiero, di Sigifmondo Paoluci. 
 Continuation of Orlando Furiofo, with the Death 
 of Ruggiero, by &c. 1543, in quarto. 
 
 Li Morce di Ruggiero di Giovanbattifta Pesca- 
 tore. 'The Death of Ruggiero -, by &c. In 
 Venezia, per Comin da Trino, 1551, in quarto. 
 Ariojio, befides his Orlando Furiofo, writ five 
 cantos of another poem, which he intended to 
 entitle, La Morte di Ruggiero. Ruggiero* 's Death. 
 Thefe five cantos gave the hint to Guazzo* 
 Paolucci, and Pescatore above-named. 
 I tre primi Canti di MarSfa, di Pietro Aretino.' 
 The three frfi Cantos of Marfifa, by &c. In Ve- 
 nezia^ 1544, in octavo. .Aretino was hindered 
 by death from finilhing this poem. 
 L' Imp/efe e Torniamenti con gl* illuftri Fatti d' 
 Arme di Primaleone figliuolo dell' invitto Im- 
 peratorePalmerino, ridotti in Ottava Rima, da 
 Lodovico Dolc b . The Enterprifes and Turna* 
 ments with the iliujlrious, Deeds in Arms of Pri- 
 ma few, Son to the invincible Emperor. Palmerino, 
 tranflated into Ottava Rima., by &c. In Vene- 
 zia, per il Seffa, 1597. This is a free tranila- 
 tion of a Spanith romance. 
 Innamoramento di Ruggeretto, Figlio di Rug- 
 gero Re de Bulgari, di Pamfilo Rinaldini. 
 The Falling in Love of Ruggeretto, Son of Rug- 
 gero King of the Bulgarians, by &c. In Vene- 
 ^" ,a > 1555s * m quarto. 
 
 This
 
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 This poem was alfo intended as a continuation 
 of Ariofto's Orlando Furiofo. 
 II primo Libro di Sacripante, di Lodovico Dolce." 
 Thefirji Book of Sacripante, by &c. In Venezia, 
 1536, in quarto. 
 
 The laborious Dolce, having obferved, that 
 Ariofio, in his Orlando, does not tell what be- 
 came of the brave Sacripante, undertook to write 
 this poem, which, by death, or fome other 
 accident, he did not finifh. 
 
 La Vira di Giufeppe, defcritta in Ottava Rima, 
 da Meffer Lodovico Dolce. Jofeph's Life, 
 defcribed in Ottava Rima, by &c. In Venezia, 
 preffo il Giolito, 1561, in quarto. 
 
 Le fei Giornate, di Sebaftiano Erizzo. 'The fix 
 Days, (that is, the Creation performed in fix 
 Days) by &c. In Venezia, per il Varifco, 
 1367, in quarto. 
 
 Le Lagrime di San Pietro, di Luigi Tansillo. 
 St. Peter* s Tears, by &c. In Venezia, per Ba- 
 rezzo Barezzi, 1606, in quarto. 
 Tanfillo is in great repute in Italy as a poet. 
 Having written in his youth an obfcene poem, 
 he repented when he grew in years, and, to 
 make amends for his error, writ this. 
 
 Le Sette Giornate del Mondo Creato, di Torquato 
 Tasso. The feven Days of the Creation, by 
 &c. In Viterbo, per Girolamo Difcepoli, 
 1607, in oflavo. 
 
 Taffo valued himfelf as much on this poem; as 
 upon his Jerufalem ; but, its being in blank 
 
 verfe,
 
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 verfe, is an unanfwerable proof againfl: the 
 opinion of Trijfino and Gravina, and mows that 
 an Italian poem will not do but in rhime, fince, 
 notwithstanding its fubjecl: and harmonious ver- 
 fification, this poem had not by far the run that 
 his Jerufalem had. 
 
 L' Adone, Poema del Cavaliere Giovan Battifta 
 Marino. Adonis, a Poem, by Sec. In Parigi, 
 1623, in folio. This edition has a preface in 
 French by Chape lain, the author of La Pu~ 
 cslle, to much ridiculed by Boileau. 
 This poem would cope with any one in our Ita- 
 lian, if Marini had not run away with his 
 overflowing imagination, and if his language 
 was more correcl. 
 
 L' Angeleida di Erafmo di Valvasone. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Giovanbattifta Somafco, 1590, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Angelica Innamorata, di Vicenzo Brugiantino. 
 Angelica Enamoured-, by &c. In Venezia, per 
 il Marcolini, 1553, in quarto. 
 This poem alfo is one of the continuations to 
 Arioftos Orlando. 
 
 Le Vergini Prudenti, di D. Benedetto dell' 
 Uva. The Prudent Virgins, by &c. In Fi- 
 renze, pel Sermatelli, 1587, in quarto. 
 
 II Fido Amante, di Curzio Gonzaga. The 
 Faithful Lover, by &c. In Mantova, 1582, 
 in quarto. 
 
 LaCroce Racquiftata, Poema, di Francefco Brac- 
 
 ciolini. Ibe Crofs Recovered t by &c. In 
 
 F Venezia^
 
 66 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Venezia, per Ciotti e Giunti, 1611, in 
 quarto. 
 
 II Coftante, Poema, di Francefco Bolognetti. 
 The Confiant, a Poem, by &c. In Venezia, pel 
 Nicolini, 1565, in octavo. This poem is not 
 finished. 
 
 II Boernondo, Poema, di Giovan Leone Sem- 
 proni d' Urbino. Boernondo ', a Poem, by &c. 
 In Bologna, per Carlo Zenero, 1651, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 La Conquiiia di Granata, di Girolamo Grazia- 
 ni. The Conquefi of Granada , by &c. 
 Among the imitators of Taffo, Semproni and 
 Graziani hold the firft places. 
 
 L' Imperio Vendicato, di Antonio Caraccio. 
 The Empire Revenged, by Sec. In Roma, per 
 Nicolo Angelo Tinafli, 1690, in quarto. 
 
 L' Adamodel Campailla. Adam, by &c. This 
 poem was firfl: printed in Sicily, and lately at 
 Milan ; but I have forgot the dates. It is a 
 philofophical poem much admired by the fol- 
 lowers of the Cartefian fyftem, who were very 
 numerous when the author writ it. 
 
 Del Parto della Vergine, del Sanazzaro, tra- 
 
 dotto da Giovan Giolito de Ferrar i. The 
 
 famous Latin Poem of Sanazzaro, emit led, De 
 
 Partu Virginis. In Venezia, preflb i Gioliti, 
 
 1588, in quarto. 
 
 The Italians have a great number more of Epick 
 poem?. Some of them bear a very old date v 
 ai, II Drujian dal Leone, Dama Rovenza del Mar- 
 
 tello>
 
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 Zello, Buovo d' Antona, Trabifonda, Paris e Vien- 
 na. La Rotta di Roncifvalle^ &c. Some others 
 are lefs old ; as, Babilonia D';ftrutta 9 il Coftan- 
 tino, Bona efpugnata, &c. But, as they have 
 not the fanction of the learned, and their edi- 
 tions are very fcarce, I fhall pafs them over in 
 filence, only adding, that an Englifhman will 
 have enough of our Epick poetry, if he does but 
 make himfelf acquainted with Dante,, Bojardo^ 
 Pulci t Frezzi, Aricjio, Tajjo, JJppi y and Tajfoni, 
 
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 Poemi Epici Giocofi. Bu'rlefgue Epick Poems. 
 
 LA Guerra de* Moftri di Anton Francefco 
 Grazini detto il Lasca. The War of the 
 Monjters, by Grazini, furnamed Lafca. In Fi- 
 renze, per Antonio Guiducci, 1612, in duo- 
 decimo. At the end there are, La Nanea and 
 la Gigantea, fliort burlefque poems. 
 
 La Secchia Rapita,' di AlefTandro Tassoni. The 
 Rape of the Pail, by Sec. In Modena, per 
 Bartolommeo Soliani, 1744, in quarto. 
 This is the belt: edition of this poem, which I 
 could like better if it was all burlefque ; but 
 many cantos in it are as ferious as Tajfo's. The 
 author was a man of wit and learning, and a 
 great enemy to Petrarch and to the Acade- 
 micians della Crufca, whom he criticifed with- 
 out mercy, defpifing their dictionary and their 
 Florentine language ; but had he ftudied to give 
 harmony to his numbers as much as Petrarch 
 did, and been fo elegant as the generality of 
 the Florentine writers are, his poem would be 
 as much read as it is praiftd. 
 
 L 5 Orlandino Pitocco, di Teofilo Folengo. O- 
 tandc, the Beggar, by &c. In Venezia, per 
 Gregorio de Gregori, 1526, in octavo. 
 This Folengo is the famous inventor of the Mac- 
 caronick poetry, and the author of Baldus, an 
 
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 heroicomical poem in Maccaroniok verfe ; that 
 is, in a kind of coarfe Latin invented by him- 
 felf, intermixed with a multitude of Tufcan, 
 Lombard, and Venetian words latinized. He 
 called fuch poetry Maccaronica* from Macca* 
 roni, or Maccheroni, a coarfe compofition of 
 flour and eggs, much in favour with our low 
 people, efpecialiy in Lombardy, where they eat 
 it boiled in water, and dreffed with butter and 
 Parmefan cheefe. This poem, of which Bal- 
 dur is the hero, h? publifhed under the name 
 of Merlinus Cocajus \ no body can underftand it 
 well that underftands not the Mantuan Dialed. 
 
 Lo Scherno degli Dei, di Francefco Braccio- 
 lini. The Gods ridtcu/ed, by &c. In Roma, 
 preffo il Mafcardi, 1626, in duodecimo. 
 
 Jl Malmantile racquiftato, di Lorenzo Lippi. 
 Malmatile re- conquered, by &c. In Fiorenza, 
 per Michcle Neftenus, 173 1, in quarto, with 
 copious notes by Antonmaria Biscioni and 
 Antonmaria Salvini. This poem is one of 
 the befl things we have in the language. The 
 author was a painter of reputation. 
 
 L' Eneide traveftita, di Giambattifta Lalli. The 
 
 JQneid burlefqued, by &c. In Roma, per Antonio 
 Facciotti, 1633, in o&avo. 
 
 La Franceide, di Giambattifta Lalli. In Fo- 
 ligno, per Agoftino Alteri, 1629, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 La Mofcheide, di Giambattifta TLrALLr. In Brac- 
 ciano, per Andrea Fei. 
 
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 II Ricciardetto, di Nicolo Forteguerri. It 
 was magnificently printed a few years ago in 
 Venice, with the date of Paris, in folio, and 
 it is in general cfteem with the demi-connohTeurs, 
 In my opinion the author had invention enough, 
 but knew nothing of verification. 
 
 Bertoldo, Bertoldino, e Cacafenno. In Bologna 
 and in Venezia, in quarto. This poem is di- 
 vided into twenty cantos, written by twenty dif-* 
 fcrent poets, the greareft part of whom are (till 
 alive. The firft and tenth cantos, by Riva 
 and Frugoni, are the beft in my opinion. It 
 is a tranfla;ion of an old Italian book, written 
 by one Cefare Croce, much read by children 
 SpagnoktlOy the famous painter of Bologna, 
 made twenty drawings out of this fimple tale 
 of Croce, aad thefe drawings gave the hint to 
 our twenty poets, who writ the Cantos after 
 the drawings, 
 
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 Poetici Lirici, e di vario Genere. 
 Lyrick Poets, and of various Kinds. 
 
 SONET TI, e Canzoni, di diverfi antichi 
 Autori Tofcani, in X Libri. Sonnets and 
 Songs , by fever at old, Tufcan Authors ; that is, 
 by Dante, Cino da Piftoja, Guido Caval- 
 canti, another Dante, called Dante Da 
 Majano, Guittone d* Arezzo, and others. 
 In Firenze, per gli Eredi di Filippo Gijnta, 
 1527, in octavo. 
 Rime di Francefco Petrarca. In Venezia, per 
 Vindelino Spira, 1470, in folio, firft printed 
 edition. The editions of this poet are above two 
 hundred. To an Englishman I would recom- 
 mend a modern one, by Comino of Padua. 
 This poet was fo much refpecled, both for his 
 Italian and Latin poetry, that a man having out 
 of wamonnefs fliot at his ftatue in Padua and 
 broke its nofe, the Venetians had him hanged. 
 Petrarch's commentators are, Francis Filelfo, 
 Antonio da Tempo, Girolamo Alessan- 
 drino, Bernardo Licinio, Marco Poggio, 
 Bernardo da Monte Alano, Girolamo Cen- 
 tone, SebafHano Fausto, Silvano da Ve- 
 nafro, AIcjoManuzio, Francefco Alun no, 
 Bernardino Daniello, Francefco Sansovino, 
 Lodovico Dolce, Aleffandro Vellutello, 
 Gianandrea Gesualdo, Girolamo Ruscelli, 
 F 4 Pietro
 
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 PietroBEMBO, Lodovico Castelvetro, A- 
 lcfTandro Tassoni, Girolamo Muzio, Lodo- 
 vico Antonio Muratori, and fome others. 
 I muft tell the reader that by the word Rime, 
 Petrarch meant Lyrick poetry, and gave the title 
 of Rime to his poems out of modefty, feeming 
 to him that Lyrick pqetry or Lyrick poems was 
 too much for his compofitions in a language, 
 which, in his time, was (imply called the vulgar 
 language. His poetical fucceffors adopted the 
 word in the fame fign^fication. 
 
 Rime da Cino di Piftoja. In Roma, 1559, in 
 duodecimo. An excellent old poet. 
 
 Rime di Bonaccorso da Montemagno. In Roma, 
 1559, in duodecimo. 
 
 Rime di Giufto de' Conti. In Firenze, da Gia- 
 como Guiducci, 1715, in duodecimo, with 
 notes by Antonmaria Salvini. 
 
 Li Cantici del Beato Jacopone da Todi. In Ro- 
 ma, preffo Ipolito Salviano, 1558, in quarto; 
 The above four poets were eminent in their 
 way. Sweetnefs and fimplicity characterife 
 their verfes. 
 
 Sonetti e Canzoni, di Matteo Maria Bojardo. 
 
 InReggio, 1499, in octavo. 
 
 Thefe poems do not feem to be written with 
 
 the fame pen that writ the noble poem, entitled 
 
 Orlando Innamorato. 
 Poefie di Luca Pulci. In Firenze, 1488, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
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 Rime e Profe, di Antonio Minturno. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Francefco Rampazzetto, 1559, in 
 octavo, 
 Opere di Serafino Acquilano. In Firenze, per 
 i Giunti, j 5 16, in octavo. 
 The numerous editions of Acquilano's verfes are 
 a convincing proof that they were in great 
 efteem in his time; and he had really a poetical 
 genius, but his neglect of ftile has at laft ruined 
 his reputation, and almoft thrown his name 
 into oblivion. He was a knight of the Jero- 
 folimitan order, of the Ciminoh family of A- 
 quila, as appears by an ancient edition of his 
 works. He died in Rome, and was buried in 
 the church of Santa Maria del Popolo 5 and upon 
 his tomb was engraven this epitaph, written by 
 Bernardo Accolti, commonly called V Unico 
 Arelina ; 
 
 Qui giace Ssrafin : partirti or puoi : 
 Sol d? aver vijio ilfajfo cbe lo ferra 
 AJfaifei debit ore agli occhi tuoi. 
 
 Rime e Profe, di Gabriel Zinano. In Reggio, 
 appreilb Herculiano Bartoli, without date. 
 Zinano, defcended from an ancient family of 
 Ravenna, befides his Lyrick verfes, writ alfo 
 an Epick poem, entitled Eracleide, printed in 
 Venezia, preflb il Deuchino, 1623, in quarto. 
 At the end of this poem he publifhed feveral 
 Oppo/itiom, as he calls them, to 'Tajfo's Jerufa- 
 km, by an unknown author (Incerto Autore,) 
 with Anfwers to them, by Vincenzo Antonio 
 
 Sorella 
 
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 Soretta, a name of an author forged by 
 himfelf. The end of thefe Oppojitions and An- 
 fwers was to lower Taffo, and exalt himfelf; 
 but he was laughed at then, and is a!moft for- 
 got now. 
 
 Rim, di Bernardino Ponchini. In Venezia, 
 appreffbGiambattifta Somafco, 1565, in octavo. 
 
 Rime Platoniche, di Celfo Gittadini. In Ve- 
 nezia, 1585, in duodecimo. 
 Ciltadini was born in Rome, and died at Flo- 
 rence, 1622, aged 74. We have of him 
 fome few tolerably good thing?, efpecially his 
 grammatical obfervations on the Iralian lan- 
 guage ; and in the above Lyrick poems there 
 isexadtnefs of language and fome thinking. 
 
 Rime Spiritual, di Gabriel Fiamma. In Vene- 
 zia, 1573, in oftavo. 
 
 Fiamma, in the dedicatory letter to the fpiritual 
 Rbimes, fays a very remarkable thing ; it 
 if, thnt the perfon, who firfb writ well in Ita- 
 lian verfes on fpiritual fubjetls, was the poetcfs 
 Vitlonia CoJonna; 
 
 Poefie Vdgari, di Lorenzo de' Medici. In Ve- 
 nezia, prefib Aldo, 1554, in octavo. 
 To the father of this De Medici, the Learned are 
 more obliged, than perhaps to any other man 
 in the world. After the fall of the Eaftern 
 empire by the Turks, he called the Greek 
 Learned to Florence, gave them large (tipends, 
 fent all over Afia to buy Greek books, and 
 
 faved them from being loll. 
 
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 Opere di M. Antonio Tebaldeo. In Venezia, 
 per Manfredo de Monferrato, 1508, in quarto. 
 JJlius GiraUi fays, that Tebaldeo complained 
 that the firft edition of his Italian works, printed 
 in 1494, by the fault of the editor, was parum 
 caftigata^ and that he writ them being adokfcens 
 et pene puer, juvenili quodam colore , and that 
 Tebaldeo's Latin verfes made him famous apud 
 dotlos as his Italian apud indoclos. 
 
 Rime, di M. Pietro Bembo. In Venezia, per Ii 
 Fratelli daSabbio, 1530, in quarto, firft edit. 
 This is the Cardinal fo famous for his Italian, 
 Latin, and Greek works in profe and verfe. 
 
 Rime, di Lodovico Ariosto. In Vinegia, prefib 
 il Giolito, 1570, in duodecimo. 
 Excellent things, efpecially the elegies. 
 
 Rime e Profe, di Giovanni Dell a Casa. In 
 Parig', per Tomato Joli, 1667, in octavo. 
 I regifter this edition, becaufe it contains notes 
 by Egidius Menagius, a learned Frenchman. 
 
 Tutte 1' Opere Latine e Volgari, di Giovanni 
 Della Casa. All the Latin and Italian Works 
 of &c. In Firenze, per Giufeppe Manni, 
 1707, 3 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Cafa was the molt elaborate of our profe wri- 
 ters, and his Lyrick verfes are more full of 
 thought, harmonious, and elegant, than any 
 in our language. Had he not written in his 
 youth fome immoral burlefque verfes he would 
 have obtained the honour of the cardinalfhip. 
 A Lutheran writer charges him of being the 
 
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 author of an infamous Latin book, whofe titla 
 I think proper to fupprefs * but the accufation 
 was proved a calumny even by a Calviniit 
 writer of Geneva. 
 
 Rime, di Bernardo Tasso. In Venezia, preflb 
 il Giolito, 1560, in duodecimo. 
 Thefe rhimes, by Torquato Tafo's father, are 
 much prai'fed, and iittle read. 
 
 Rime di Giovanni Guidiccioni, vefcovo di 
 Lucca. In Bologna, preflb Pietro BarbiroK* 
 1709, in duodecimo. 
 
 Guidiccioni was an elegant Lyrick poet, and a 
 man of great erudition. Among Annibal 
 Caro's Familiar Letters, there is one in which 
 he gives an account of this learned and pious 
 man, and laments his death in a very pathetick 
 ftrain. 
 
 Opere Tofcane di Luigi Alamanni. In Venezia, 
 per Luca Antonio Giunti, 1542, in 2 vol. 
 octavo. Poetry above mediocrity. 
 
 Stanze Paftorali di Baldaflar Castiglione. In 
 Venezia, per Aldo 1553, in octavo, printed 
 with Stanze Paftorali di Cefare Gonzaga, and 
 Rime di Antonio Jacopo Corso. 
 Cajiiglione, author of the Courtier, as well as 
 Gonzaga and Corfo, were but indifferent poets 
 in my opinion. Caftiglione's Latin poetry is a 
 little better than his Italian. 
 
 Rime di Michelagnolo Buonaroti, raccofte da 
 Michelagnolo fuo Nipote. In Firenzc, preflb. 
 i Giunti, 1623, in quarto. 
 
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 This was the famous painter, architect, and 
 ftatuary. Some of his verfes are as good as 
 Petrarch's, but his compofitions are not all of 
 equal perfection. 
 
 Sonetti di Benedetto Varchi. In Firenze, preffo il 
 Torrentino, 1555 and 1557, 2 torn, in octavo* 
 This Varchi was a great fcholar, and his lan- 
 guage is very pure ; but for a poet he was a 
 little too dull. 
 
 Rime di Lodovico Domenichi. In Venezia," 
 preflfo il Giolito, 1544, in octavo. 
 
 Rime di Luca Contile. In Venezia, perFran- 
 cefco Sanfovino, 1560, in octavo. 
 Contile acquired much reputation as a poet in 
 his time : now he is but little read. 
 
 Arcadia, Sonetti, e Canzoni di Jacopo Sanaz- 
 zaro. In Venezia, per Aldo, 1534, in octavo. 
 Sanazzartfs Arcadia is an account in profe of 
 fome paftoral feftivals celebrated in Arcadia, in- 
 termixed with fome eclogues and paftoral fongs, 
 looked upon in Italy to be the beft paftoral 
 poetry we have in the language. 
 
 Egloghe di Girolamo Muzio Giuftinopolitano. 
 Eclogues, by &c. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1550, in octavo. 
 
 Rime del Coppetta. In Venezia, per i Guerra 
 1580, in octavo. 
 
 Coppetta's verfes are natural and eafy. There 
 is a Canzone of him on the death of his Cat, 
 which is an inimitable thing, and a ridicule on 
 the dull imitators of Petrarch, very numerous 
 in his time. Rime
 
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 Rime di Berardino Rota. In Napoli, per Giu- 
 feppe Cacchi, 1572, in quarto. This edition 
 contains alfo his Latin poetry. 
 Ihuanus in his hiftory fpeaks honourably of 
 Rota, who was a man of great learning. 
 
 Egloghe Pefcatorie, di Berardino Rota. Pifca- 
 tory Eclogues, by &c. In Napoli, per Nicolo 
 Nafi, 1720, in duodecimo. 
 
 Rime di Remigio Fiorentino. In Venezia, 
 1547, in octavo. 
 
 Rime di Agnolo Firenzuola. In Firenze, per 
 i Giunti, 1549, in octavo. 
 Firenzuola s poetry does not come up to his in- 
 comparable profe. 
 
 Rime di Annibal Caro. In Venezia, prefib A!do 
 Manuzio, 1569, in quarto. 
 Caro was elegant in every thing he wrir. 
 
 Rime di Francefco Caburacci da Imola. In 
 
 Bologna, 15 Bo, in quarto. 
 Rime e Profe di Girolamo Zoppio. In Bologna, 
 
 preffo illeiTandro Benacci, 1567, in octavo. 
 Rime di Girolamo Molino Gentiluomo Vene- 
 
 ziano. Venezia, 1573, in octavo. 
 Rime di Pier Gradenigo, Gentiluomo Vene- 
 
 ziano. Venezia, pel Rainpazetto, 1583, in 
 
 quarto. 
 Le Rime di Giufcppe Nozzolini Fiorentino. In 
 
 Firenze, per Filippo Giunti, 1592, in octavo. 
 
 Poefie di Ottavio Rinuccini. In Firenze, prefTo 
 
 i Giunti, 1622, in quarto. 
 
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 Le Rime di Tomafo Cast ell ani Bolognefe. 
 In Bologna, per Anfelmo Graccarelli, 
 1545, in octavo. 
 
 Le Rime di Michel Monaldi Nobile Ragugeo. 
 In Venezia, per Akobello Salicato, 1599, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Egloghe di Andrea Calmo Veneziano. In Ve* 
 nezia, 1553, in octavo. 
 Calmo got more reputation by his Venetian 
 than by his Tufcan writings. 
 
 Egloghe di Andrea Lori. In Venezia, 1554, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Poefie di Gabricllo Chiabrera. In Roma, 
 preffo il Salvioni, 171 8, 3 Tom. in octavo. 
 There is a better edition piinted of late in Ve- 
 nice, in four vol. octavo. 
 This Chiabrera is called the Pindar of the Ita- 
 lians. 
 
 Rime e Profe di Torquato Tasso, Parte Prima. 
 InFerrara, per Giulio Vafolini, 1589, in duo- 
 decimo. Parte Seconda, 1583 and 1589, in 
 duodecimo. Parte Terza, 1586 and 1589, in 
 duodecimo. Parte Ckurta, 1586 and 1589, 
 in duodecimo. Quinta e Sefia Parte, in Ve- 
 nezia, 1589, in duodecimo. 
 An edition, in ten volumes, quarto, has been 
 made in Venice, which is a collection of aWTajfe's 
 works in profe and verfe, his commentators, 
 the various criticifms of the Academicians della 
 Crufca, and others on his Jerufalem, his apo- 
 logies, &c, 
 
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 Epiftole Eroiche d' Antonio Bruni. In Vene* 
 nezia, 1636, in duodecimo. 
 There is an edition much valued of thefe Ovi- 
 dian Epifties,, btcaufe there are cuts defigned 
 by Guido Reni, Domenichino, and other 
 famous painters of Italy. The poetry does not 
 come up to the perfe&ion of the cuts. 
 
 Rime e Profe del Marchefe Scipione Maffei Ve- 
 ronefe. In Venezia, per Sebaftiano* Coleti, 
 17 1 9, in quarto. This edition contains alfo 
 fome of his Latin poetry. 
 
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 Raccolte di Rime. CoHe&itms of Rhimes. 
 
 FI O R I di Rime di Poeti illuftri, raccolti da 
 Girolamo Ruscelli. Choice Verfes of il- 
 luftrious Poets, collected by &c. In Venezia, 
 preffoi Sella, 1558,' in octavo. 
 Rime di Donne Romane, raccolte da Muzio 
 Manfred 1. Verfes by Roman Ladies, collecled 
 by &c. 
 
 Stanze di diverfi iUuftri Poeti, raccolte da Lodo- 
 vico Dolce. Stanzas by feveral Muftrious Poets, 
 collecled by &c. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 
 1556, in octavo. 
 
 Stanze di diverfi illuftri Poeti, raccolte da Anto- 
 nio Termino. Stanzas by fever al illufirious 
 Poets, collecled by &c. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, 1572, in octavo. 
 
 Rime di diverlTeccellenti Autori, raccolte da Lo- 
 dovico Dolce. Verfes by fever al excellent Au- 
 thors, colletledjy Sec. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, 1556, in duodecimo. 
 
 Scelta di Stanze di diverfi Autori Tofcani, rac- 
 colte da Agoftino Ferrentilli. Choice Stanzas 
 by fever al Tufcan Authors, collecled by &c. In 
 Venezia, per i Giunti, 1572, in duodecimo. 
 
 Rime diverfe di mold eccellenti Autori, raccolte 
 daLodovico Domenichi. Poetry by many ex- 
 cellent Authors, collecled by &c. Fir ft volume, 
 G in
 
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 in Venezia, prefifo il Giolito, 1586, in octavo ; 
 fecond volume, 1587, in octavo. 
 
 Raccolta di Traduzioni de* fette Salmi Peniten- 
 ziali fatte da diverfi infigni Rimatori, da Fran- 
 cefcoTuRCHi daTrevigi. 'Tranflations of the 
 feven penitential Pfalms by feveral famous Poets, 
 a Colleclion by &c. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1572, in octavo. 
 
 Rime di diverfi nobili Poeci Tofcani, raccolte da 
 Dionigi Atanagi. Verfes by feveral eminent 
 Poets, collected by Sec. In Venezia, per Lodo- 
 vico Avanzi, 1566, 2 torn, in octavo. 
 
 Rime di diverfi Autori Baflanefi, raccolte da Lo- 
 rezo Ma nci n 1. Verfes by feveral Authors of 
 Bajfano, collected by &c. In Venezia, preflb 
 Pietro de Francefchi e Nipoti, 1576, in quarto. 
 
 Scelta di Poefie Italiaae non mai per 1' addietro 
 flampate de' piu riobili Autori del noftro Se- 
 colo. Choice Italian poetry never before printed, 
 by the noblefl Authors of our Age. In Venezia, 
 preflb Paolo Baglioni, 1686, in octavo. 
 In the above collections funt qu<edam bona qua- 
 dam mediocria. 
 
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 Poefie di Donne. Poetry by Ladies, 
 
 R 
 
 I M E di Vittoria Colonna Marchefa di Pef- 
 cara. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1552, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Rime Spiritual*! by the fame Colonna. Religious 
 Verfes t by &c. In Venezia, preflb Vincenzo 
 Valgrifio, 1548, in quarto. 
 This lady was, in her time, the idol of all the 
 Poets and great men of Italy. 
 
 Rime di Tullia d' Aragona. In Venezia, prefib 
 il Giolito, 1547, in octavo. 
 This lady, who was a celebrated beauty, and 
 of the royal family of Aragon, was moil paf- 
 fionately loved and celebrated by the choiceft 
 wits of Italy; I have regiftcred in another place 
 her Epick poem, entitled, II Mefchino. 
 
 Rime di Gafpara St amp a. The beft edition is 
 that of Venezia, per Francefco Piacentini, 1738, 
 in octavo, collected by Lovifa Bergalli, the 
 wife of Count GafparoGozzi, both now living 
 at Venice. 
 
 Rime di Veronica Gambara, di Lucrezia Ma- 
 rinella, e d' Ifabella Morra. In Napoli, 
 per Antonio Bulifon, 1693, in duodecimo. 
 Veronica Gambara is, in my opinion, the greater! 
 of our female poets, and miy contend with Pe- 
 trarcbiox poetical precedency, though (lie was but 
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 thirty years old when (he died. Signora Bergalli 
 has tranflatcd Terence's Comedies with as much 
 elegance as Madam Dacier did in French ; and 
 my honoured friend Gozzi, her hufband, is the 
 moft elegant Italian poet of this age in Italy. 
 
 Rime di Laura Terracina. In Venezia, preflb 
 il Giolito, 1556, in duodecimo. 
 
 Le Sefte Rime e Sonetti, by the fame Terra- 
 cina. Stanzas and Sonnets, by &c. In Napoli, 
 per Raimondo Amato, 1560, in octavo. 
 
 Opere Tofcane di Laura Battiferri. In Fi- 
 renze, per i Giunti, 1560, in quarto. 
 
 I fette Salmi tradotti by the fame Battiferri. 
 Tbefeven Pfalms, tranjlated by &c. In Firenze, 
 per li Giunti, 1565, in quarto. 
 
 Rimee Lettere di Chiara Mattraini Lucchefe. 
 In Lucca, per Vincenzio Bufdrago, 1595, in 
 octavo. A pious and well-meaning lady. 
 
 Poefie di Rimatrici Viventi, raccolte da Giovan 
 Battifta Recanati. Poetical Works by living 
 PoeteJ/es, collecled by &c. In Venezia, per Se- 
 baftiano Coleti, 171 6, in o&avo. 
 I remember I have, feen an Epick poem, en- 
 titled Floridante, written by one Madonna Mo- 
 derata Fonte, which pleafed me much when I 
 was young. I thought at that time that Fonte 
 was the greateft female poetical genius of Italy, 
 and was forry that the authorefs'had left it un- 
 finished ; but as I have loft the book, and can- 
 not find it in any of the catalogues I have, nor 
 any mention made of Chis poetels, fo I fhail fay 
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 Poeti Satirici e Giocofi. Satirical and 
 Burlefque Poets. 
 
 SATIRE di Lodovico Ariosto. In Ve- 
 nezia, per il Giolito, 1560, in octavo. 
 There is a London edition, per Paolo Rolli, 
 1 716, in duodecimo, together with Ariojlo's 
 Rime. 
 
 Ariofto was great in every thing he writ ; but in 
 his Satires, as well as in his Epick poem, he 
 would have done better, had he forborne fome 
 of his obfcenities. 
 
 Sette Libri di Satire, raccolte da Francefco San- 
 sovino. Seven Books of Satires, collected by 
 &c. InVenezia, per Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1563, 
 in octavo. The authors of thefe fatires are, 
 Ariosto, Benttvoglio, Alamanni, Nelli, 
 Vinciguerra, Sansovino, and others. 
 
 Satire di M. Andrea da Bergamo (chat is, Pietro 
 Nelli of Siena.) In Venezia, torn. I. per 
 Paolo Gherardo, 1548; torn. II. per Comin 
 daTrino. 
 
 Satire alia Berniefca, ed altre Rime, di Gabriello 
 Simeoni. Satires in Bernis Stile, with other 
 Verfes, by &c. In Torino, per Martino Cra- 
 votto, 1549, in quarto. 
 
 Satire di Benedetto Menzini. Amfterdam, 
 17185 in octavo. 
 
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 26 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. 
 
 Menzini acquired much reputation by his fatires 
 and other poetical things. 
 
 Opere burlefche di Francefco Berni, Giovanni 
 delia Casa, Varchi, Mauro, Bino, Molza, 
 Dolce, Firenzuola, ed altri. Burlefque 
 Poetry, by &c. The bell edition is in three 
 Vol. octavo, bearing date of London and Flo- 
 rence, though it was made in Naples, in 1723. 
 The two firft volumes were reprinted here by 
 Paolo Rolli, 1721 and 1724, in two vol. 
 octavo. The old editions are much valued by 
 the curious, but they contain nothing but im- 
 morality and obfcenity delivered in the beft 
 Italian, for which the authors are the more 
 blameable. 
 
 Canzoni a Ballo, compofte da Lorenzo de' Me- 
 dici, da Angiolo Poliziano, e da altri. Bal- 
 lads, by &c. In Firenze, 1568, in quarto. 
 
 Capitoli di Pietro Aretino, Lodovico Dolce, 
 Francefco Sansovino, ed altri, 1540, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Capitolo, in poetical language, is a composition 
 in verfe, either ferious or burlefque, rhimed 
 after the manner of Dante's poem. 
 
 Burchiello, Poeta faceto Fiorentino. The Son- 
 nets of Burchiello, a facetious Florentine Poet. 
 In Venezia, 1477, in quarto. This is the 
 firft edition. There are a great many more. 
 This poet was a barber, and thofe of his verfes$ 
 which are intelligible, are inimitable. 
 
 Tutti
 
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 Tutti i Trionfi, Cirri, Mafcherate, o Canti Car- 
 nafcialelchi andati, per Firenze, dal tempo 
 del magnifico Lorenzo de' Medici fino all* 
 anno 1559, in octavo. 
 
 Of this book there is a fine edition in 2 vol, 
 octavo, bearing the falfe date of Cofmopolis y 
 1 750. It was made in Florence. It has above 
 forty portraits of the poets, whofe poems they 
 are. It is a collection of fongs and ballads, 
 fung in the ftreets of Florence, in the Carnival 
 time by large companies of men and women. 
 The Fefcennine verfes were perhaps lefs im- 
 moral. 
 
 Canzoni o Mafcherate Carnafcialefche di Giovan- 
 battifta dell' Ottonajo. In Firenze, per 
 Lorenzo Torrent ino, 1560. 
 This book makes alfo part of the above collec- 
 tion in the edition of Cofmopolis. 
 Ottonajo was lefs elegant, but lefs obfcene than 
 the reft of the above authors. 
 
 La Prima Parte della Rime Piacevoli di Aleflan- 
 dro Allegri. The firft Part of the Burlefque 
 Poetry of &c. In Verona, per Franccfco delle 
 Donne, 1605, in quarto. The Second Part, 
 in Verona, per Bartolomeo Merla, 1607. The 
 Third, in Firenze, per Gio. Antonio Caneo, 
 1608. The Fourth, in Verona, pel Merla, 
 1613. 
 
 There is a great deal of pure Italian that may 
 be learnt by reading this author. 
 
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 Capitoli e Canzoni Piacevoli di Girolamo Leo- 
 pa rdi Fiorentino. Burlefque Capitolos and 
 Songs, by &c. In Firenze, per il Sermatelli, 
 1613, in quarto. 
 Leopardi was a good burlefqije poet. 
 
 Bacco in Tofcana, Ditirambo, di Francefco Redi. 
 Bacchus in Tii/cany, a Dithyrambick, by Sec. with 
 notes by the author. In Firenze, per Pietro 
 Matini, 1691, in quarto. 
 
 II Beone, Ditirambo, del Cavalier Peqqlotti. 
 In Guaftalla, in octavo. 
 They are both very whimfical, and diverting 
 compofitions, and Redi is much to be praifed 
 for having been the inventor of this kind of 
 poetry. 
 
 Baccanali di Girolamo Baruffaldi Ferrarefe. 
 In Venezia, apprefib Carlo Buonarrigo, 1722, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Thefe Bacchanals are ten Dithyrambicks, much 
 inferior on all accounts to thofe above-named 
 by Redi and Pegolotti. 
 
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 Poemi di vario Genere. Poems of different 
 Kinds. 
 
 LA Coltivazione, di Luigi Alammani. AgrU 
 culture, by &c. In Parigi, per Roberto 
 Stefano, 1546, in quarto. 
 La Medefima, e le Api, di Giovanni Ruccellai. 
 The fame, with the Bees, by dec. In Firenze, 
 per Filippo Giunti, 1590, in octavo. 
 Thefe two poems are after the Georgicks of 
 Virgil, both in blank verfe, and much efteemed. 
 
 Jl Vendemmiatore, di Luigi Tansillo. In Na- 
 poli, i534> in quarto. 
 
 If Tanfillo had forborne to write this poem, he 
 would have fpared his confeience a great deal 
 of trouble. 
 
 La Fifica di Paolo del Rosso, in Terza Rima. 
 
 In Parigi, per Pierro Voirrier, 1678, in octavo. 
 La Caccia, di Erafmo di Valvasone. Huntings 
 
 by &c. In Venezia, per Francefco Bolzetta, 
 
 1602, in octavo. 
 
 Valvafone is a poet of fome reputation. 
 
 Jl Dittamondo di Fazio degli Uberti. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Criftofeno di Penza, 1501, in quarto. 
 There is an edition printed in Vicenza, 1474, 
 jn folio, whofe title is Di3o Mundi. This book 
 js valued for its antiquity, and it is very fcarce. 
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 Difcorfo della grandezza di Dio. A Difcourfe on 
 the Greatnefs of God. Cufentise, 1478, in 
 quarto. Author and Printer unknown. 
 The language of it appears to me to be older 
 than Dante's and Guitton d' Arezzo's. 
 
 La Pafii^ne del Noftro Signor Gesu Crifto in 
 RimaTofcana, per Bernardo Pulci Florentine 
 The Pajfion of our Lord Jefus Cbrifi, in Tufcan 
 Rhime, by &c. In Firenze, per Francifcum 
 Bonaeurfum, die 3 Novemb. 1490, in quarto. 
 This Bernardo was brother to Luigi and Luc a 
 Pulci, named above among the Epick poets. 
 It is remarkable, that he was the firft Italian 
 tranflator, having trandated the Bucolicks of 
 Virgil about the year 1440. 
 
 La vendetta del Noftro Signor Jesu Crifto fatta 
 da Tito e Vefpafiano. Our Lord Jefus re- 
 venged by 'Titus and Vefpafian. In Firenze, 
 1 49 1, in quarto. Author and Printer un- 
 known. 
 
 Le Devotiflime Laude, compofte per M. Leo- 
 nardo Justiniano. The mojl Devout Lauds, 
 by &c. In Venezia, per Dionyfium Berto- 
 cum, 1490, in quarto. 
 
 Favole d' Efopo, ridotte in Sonetti per Accio 
 
 Zucco Veronefe. Efop's Fables, tranjlated into 
 
 Sonnets, by &c. In Verona, 1479, ' n q uart0 ' 
 
 Cento Favole morali de* piu iHuftri antichi e mo- 
 V ... 
 
 derni Autori Greci e Latini, facte volgari da 
 
 Giovanni Mario Verdizzotti. In Venezia, 
 
 per Giordano Ziletto, in quarto ; e dal Zal- 
 
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 tiero, 1575 and 1599, in quarto. One hun- 
 dred moral Fables, felefted from the moft famous^ 
 ancient^ or modern Greek and Latin Authors, 
 tranjlated by &c. 
 
 This book is much valued, becaufe of the cuts, 
 part of whom are by the renowned Tiziano. 
 
 Le cento Novelle, di Vincenzo Brugianttino.' 
 A hundred Novels (allegorical Fables,) by &c. 
 In Venezia, per Francefco Marcolini, 1554, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Epitalamio nelle pompe Nuziali di Annibale, Fig- 
 lio del Principe Giovan Bentivoglio, di An- 
 gelo Salimbeni. Epitalamium on the Nuptials 
 of Annibal, Son to Prince John Bentivoglio, by 
 &c. In Bologna, per Ugo Ruggieri, J478, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Stanze Epitalamiche per le nozze di Giulio de* 
 Medici, di Angiolo Poliziano. Epitalamick 
 Stanzas on the Nuptials of Julius de Medici, by 
 &c. In Firenze, in octavo. 
 If Politian had not left thefe ftanzas unfinimed, 
 it would have been a matchlefs performance. 
 
 Dialogo de Fortuna, del Cavalier Antonio Fre- 
 goso, in Terza Rima. A Dialogue on Fortune, 
 by &c. In Venezia, per Nicolo Zoppino, 1525, 
 in octavo. 
 
 II Giuoco de* Scacchi, Poema, di Giorgio Duc- 
 chi. m The Game of Chefs, a Poem, by &c. In 
 Vicenza, 1607, in quarto. 
 A very poetical thing. 
 
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 2 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. : 
 
 Poeti Drammatici. Dramatick Poets. 
 Tragedie. Tragedies. 
 
 LA Sofonifba, Tr. diGio. Giorgio Trissino. 
 In Roma, per Lodovico degli Arrighi, 
 1524, in quarto. 
 
 This was the firft tragedy that was written in 
 Italy after the full reftoration of literature, and 
 the firft in which Ariftotle'% rules were kept in 
 fight. It is in blank verfe, except the cho- 
 ruffes, which are in rhime : it was repre- 
 fented for the firft time in Rome, before the 
 famous patron of literature, Leo X. 
 
 Difcordia d' Amore, Tr. di Mario Guazzo. In 
 Venezia, per Nicolo d' Ariftotele, 1528. 
 This tragedy is in Terza Rima, that is verfified 
 and rhimed after the manner of Dante's poem. 
 Guazzo of Padua was a foldier and a poet. 
 
 La Rofmonda, Tr. di Giovanni Ruccellai. 
 
 In Firenze, per Filippo Giunti, 1568, in 00- 
 
 tavo, in blank verfe. 
 L' Orefte, Tr. by the fame Rucellai. Firft 
 
 publifhed by the marquis Maffei, in his Tea- 
 
 tro Italiano, 1723, in blank verfe. 
 
 Thefe two tragedies are reckoned excellent per- 
 
 formances, as well as the following. 
 La Canace, Tr. di Sperone Speroni. In Firenze, 
 
 preffo il Doni, 1546, in octavo, in blank verfe. 
 
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 U Antigone, Tr. di Luigi Alamanni. Printed 
 with his other works in Venezia, preflb il Ni- 
 colini, 1532, in octavo, in blank verfe. 
 This tragedy is an imitation of Sophocks's An- 
 tigona. 
 
 II Torrifmondo, Tr. di Torquato Tasso. In 
 Mantova, per Francefco Ofanna, 1577, * n 
 duodecimo, in blank verfe. 
 
 L* Orazia di Pietro Aretino, Tr. In Venezia, 
 per il Giolitb, 1546, in octavo. 
 This is a tolerable performance of the cele- 
 brated Aretino ; at leaft there is nothing im- 
 moral in it, as in almoft all his other numerous 
 works. This is the impudent man who called 
 himfelf, Flagellode* Principle Scourge of Princes, 
 It is laid of him, that he put under contribu- 
 tion not only almoft all the Sovereigns in Chris- 
 tendom, but the Grand Signior himfelf : fuch 
 was the infatuation of the world as to his parts, 
 that even popes and emperors were afraid of 
 his pen. The greateft writers of the age 
 praifed him mod enormoufly, and gave him 
 the furname of Divino while he was (till alive, 
 and numerous medals were ftruck in honour of 
 him, with his bufto on one fide, and Petrus 
 Aretinus Flagellum Principum on the reverfe. 
 It is true, that great part of thofe medals were 
 ftruck at the vain man's expence. See the Life 
 of Aretino, written by count Mazzuchelli of 
 Brefcia, and printed in Padova, 17419 in 
 octavo. 
 
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 ft the I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. 
 
 I mall fpeak further of Aretino in anothef 
 place. 
 La Romilda, Tr. di Cefare be' Cesari. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Francefco Biridoni e Maffeo Pafini, 
 
 1 55 1, in octavo. 
 
 La Cleopatra, e la Scilla, Tr. due, di Cefare de* 
 Cesari. In Venezia, per Gio. Grifio, 1552 
 
 1552, in octavo, in blank verfe. 
 
 This Cefare de 9 Cefari as a poet does not want 
 elegance, but I cannot find out whom he was, 
 except that he lived in Venice in the time of 
 Rufcelli 9 and was his friend. 
 
 L' Arfinoe, Tr. di Nicola degli Angeli* In 
 Venezia, per Federigo Abirelli, 1594, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 Nicola degli Angeli died very old in Monte Lu- 
 pone, a fmall town in the Marca of Ancona, 
 and was buried in the church of the Francifcan 
 Friars, to whom he left his large eftate, which 
 is what they live upon even in our days : there 
 he is painted in their habir, and in the act of 
 praying. His poetry is above mediocrity. 
 
 La Gifmonda, Tr. di Girolamo Razli. In Fi- 
 
 renze, pel Sermatelli, 1569, in blank verfe. 
 Razzi was of Florence. Being very young, 
 he gave himfelf to write tragedies and co- 
 medies; but turning friar, changed his chriftian 
 name of Girolamo for that of Silvano, and 
 kft off writing poetry. We have alfo fome 
 elegant profe by him. 
 
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 L* Adriano, Tr. di Luigi Groto. In Venezia, 
 per Fabio Zopini, 1582, in duodecimo, in 
 blank verfe. 
 
 The author of this tragedy was furnamed Cieco 
 d' Adria, the blind man of Adria, becaufe he 
 was born blind. Many works of his are Hill 
 extant. 
 
 L' Acipranda, Tr. di Antonio Decio. In Fi- 
 renze, per il Sermatelli, 1591, in octavo, in 
 blank verfe. 
 
 II Tancredi, Tr. di Ridolfo Campeggi. In Bo- 
 Jogna,perBartolomeoCecchi, 1614, in quarto, 
 in blank verfe. 
 
 Le Tragedie di Giambattifta Giraldi Cintio. In 
 Venezia, per Giulio Cefare Cagnaccini, 1583, 
 in octavo. They are nine in number ; that is, 
 L' Altile, 1' Euphimia, la Selene, 1' Epitia, 
 V Orbecche, la Dldone, Antivalomeni, Cleo- 
 patra, e Arrenopia. 
 
 Thefe tragedies added much at that time to the 
 reputation of the learned Giraldi Cintio ; but 
 now they are fcarce read. They are good as to 
 language, but they want power, as well as the 
 following to the end of the lift, excepting Elet- 
 tra, by count Gozzi, which, in my opinion, 
 may cope with c torrifmondo by Taffb. 
 La Progne, Tr. di Lodovico Domenichi.' In 
 Firenze, per i Giunti, 1561, in octavo. 
 Domenichi made himlelf famous by his nume- 
 rous performances, and tranflations both in profe 
 and verfe, and by correcting and reprinting the 
 poem of Bojardo. La
 
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 La Semiramide, di Muzio Manfredi. In Pa- 
 via, per Girolamo Bartoli, 1598, in duode- 
 cimo, in blank verfe. 
 
 LaTomiri, Tr. di Angiolo Ingegneri. InNa- 
 poli, per Gio. Jacopo Carlino, 1607, in quar- 
 to, in blank verfe. 
 
 This Ingegneri was for a long while the Ama- 
 nuenfis of Torquato 1'aflo. 
 
 La Fedra, Tr. di Francefco Bozza. In Vene- 
 zia, preflb il Giolito, 1578, in octavo, in 
 bank verfe. 
 
 Bozza was a nobleman of the ifland of Crete, 
 and Rector of the univerfity of Padua. 
 
 L' Idalda, Tr. di MafTeo Veniero. In Vene- 
 zia, per Andrea Mufchio, 1599, in quarto, in 
 blank verfe. 
 
 La Medea, Tr. di Maffeo Galladei. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Giovanni Grifio, 1558, in octavo, 
 in blank verfe. 
 
 Tragedie di Lodovico Dolce. They are feven 
 tragedies all in blank verle, entitled, Ifigenia, 
 Medea, Ticfte, Didor.e, Giocafta, le Tro- 
 jane, and Marianna, all fcpmteiy printed 
 in Venice, by Aldo and Giolito, "in octavo. 
 Marianna could not be acted the fir ft time it 
 was exhibited, becaufe. of the great numbers 
 of people that crouded the ftage. 
 
 L' Almida, di Agoftino Dolce. In Udine, per 
 Battifta Natolini, 1605, in quarto. 
 This Agoftino was nephew to the above-named 
 laborious and voluminous writer Lodovico Dolce. 
 
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 Count Pom ponio Torelli writ five tragedies, en- 
 titled, Galatea, Merope, Vittoria, Polidoro, , 
 and Tancredi, collected in one vol. in quarto. 
 Printed in Parma, per il Viotti, 1605, all in 
 blank verfe. 
 
 L' Evandro, e 1 Arpalice, Tr. due, di Francefco 
 Br acciolini. In Firenze, per i Giunti, 1613, 
 in duodecimo, in blank verfe. 
 
 La Pentefilea, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb 
 i Giunti, 1615, in octavo. 
 
 II Ce fa re, Tr. d' Orlando Pescetti. In Verona, 
 per Girolamo Difcepolo, 1594, in quarto, in 
 blank verfe. 
 
 14 SolimaRO, Tr. di Profpcro Bonarelli. In 
 Firenze, per Pietro Cecconelli, 1620, in quar- 
 to, in blank verfe. 
 
 This edition is much valued, becaufe of the 
 cuts, by Giacomo Calotti. 
 Apofiolo Zeno, fpeaking of this tragedy, fays, 
 that the ftile of it is, Nobile, corrente, tiene 
 affai del Lirico, ed e meno Jludiato e fa tic a to di 
 que Ho dell* Ahftodemo del Dot tori ; that is, lofty y 
 flowing, with much of the Lyrick manner, and 
 lefs ftudied than that of the tragedy of Ariflodemo 
 by Dottori. 
 
 U Ariftodemo, di Carlo de' Dottori. In Pa- 
 dova, preffo il Cadoriao, 1657, in quarto, in 
 blank verfe. 
 
 II Corradino, Tr. del Baron Antonio Carac- 
 cio. In Roma, per Gio. Francefco Buagni, 
 1694, in quarto, in blank verfe. 
 
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 La Cleopatra, Tr. di Aleflandro Spinello. In 
 Vinegia, per Pietro Nicolini, 1550, in octavo, 
 in blank verfe. 
 
 La Rodopeja, Tr. di Leonoro Verlato. In 
 Venezia, per Francefco Ziletti, 1582, inofta- 
 vo, in blank verfe. 
 
 La Progne, Tr. di Girolamo Par a bos co. In 
 Venezia, per Comin da Trino, 1548, in octavo. 
 
 La Medea Efule di, Tr. di Melchiorre Zoppio. 
 In Bologna, per Giovanni Rofll, 1602, in 
 oftavo. 
 
 This Melchiorre was (on of one Girolamo Zoppio, 
 both authors of fome reputation in their time. 
 
 L' Edipo, Tr. di Gio. Andrea dell' Anguil- 
 lara. In Padova, per Ix>renzo Pafquati, 
 1565, in quarto, in blank verfe. 
 Anguillara was a poet much efteemed in his 
 time. Giovannandrea Gilio tells us, that An- 
 guillara having fent to Criftoforo Madrucci, car- 
 dinal of Trent, un Capitolo (an Epijlle in Terza 
 Rima,J the cardinal gave Anguillara as many 
 yards of velvet as there were Terzine (three 
 verfes) in the Capitolo. Anguillara generally 
 led a wandering and difTolute life, without ever 
 having an home, felling his verfes very cheap 
 to any body that would buy them, as he did 
 of the arguments to be prefixed to each canto 
 of Ariofto's poem, which he fold for half a 
 crown a-piece. He died. at laft in an inn at 
 Rome, for want of the common ntceflaries of 
 life. 3j|ihall mention his tranflation of Ovid's 
 Metamorphofis in another place. 
 
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 L' Ipolito, Tr. di Vincenzio Giacobelli. In 
 Roma, per Guglielmo Facciotto, i6or, in 
 octavo, in blank verfe. 
 
 L' Irene, Tr. di Vincenzo Giusti. In Vene- 
 zia, per Francefco Rampazetto, 1579, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Giujli, of Udine, was a famous Greek fcholar. 
 He had trandated into Italian Homer's Odyflfey, 
 but his translation was unfortunately loft after 
 his death. 
 
 Of him we have three other tragedies, en- 
 titled, L* Almeone, 1' Ermete, and 1' Arian- 
 na, printed in different times and places, all in 
 blank verfe ; but his Irene is the beft. 
 L* Ulifte, Tr. di Giambattifta della Porta. 
 In Napoli, per Lazaro Scorrigio, 1614, in 
 quarto. 
 
 II Giorgio, by the fame. In Napoli, per Giam- 
 battifta Gargano, 161 r, in duodecimo. 
 Della Porta, of Naples, was a better writer of 
 comedies than of tragedies. 
 
 L* Edelfa, Tr. di Agoftino Luzzago. In Ve- 
 rona, per Bartolomeo M^rlo, 1627, in quarto. 
 
 II Telefonte, Tr. di Antonio Cavallerino. In 
 Modona, per Paolo Gadaldino, 1582, in 
 quarto, 
 
 Cavallerino, of Milan, writ twenty tragedies, 
 but we have only four printed ; that is, Rofi- 
 monda, Ino, il Conte di Modem, and Telefonte \ 
 Zeno calls them good: 
 
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 I think proper to take notice here, that the city 
 of Modena in Lombardy is alfo called Modona 
 and Modana. 
 
 II Cresfonte, Tr. di Giambattifta Liviera. In 
 Padova, per Paolo Mejetti, 151 8, in octavo. 
 
 II Tancredi, Tr. del Conte di Camerano. In 
 Bergamo, per Comin Ventura, 15&8, in quar- 
 to, in blank verfe. 
 
 The author of this tragedy was* Federigo Afi- 
 fiari, Count of Camerano, a native of Afti, a 
 city in Piedmont. He was a poet of reputa- 
 tion in his time, and there are two beautiful 
 medals ftruck in honour of him by the famous 
 engraver Lione Aretino. 
 
 U Erminia, Tr. di Gabriello Chiabrera. In 
 Genova, preflb il Pavoni, 1622, in duodecimo. 
 Chiabrera, famous in Italy for his lyrick poe- 
 try, was a very indifferent tragedy-writer. 
 L' Ermenegildo, Tr. del Padre Sforza Palla- 
 vicino (poi cardinale.) In Roma, pel Cor- 
 belletti, 1655, in octavo, in blank verfe. 
 This Palhvicino is the renowned hiftorian. 
 La Cangenia, Tragicomedia, di BeItramoPoGGi. : 
 In Firenze, preflo i Giunti, 1561, in octavo, 
 in blank verfe. 
 
 L' Antiloco, Tragicomedia, di Giarfnbattifta 
 Leoni. In Ferrara, per Benedetto Mamma- 
 relli, 1594, in quarto. 
 
 La Converfione del Peccatore a Dio. The Cen- 
 verfion of the Sinner to Gcd. Tragicomedia (pi- 
 
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 rituale, di Giambattifta Leoni. In Venezia, 
 per Francefco Francefchi, 1592, in octavo, in 
 profe. 
 
 La falfa riputazione della Fortuna, Favola mo- 
 rale, di Giambattifta Leoni. In Venezia, per 
 Giambattifta Ciotti, 1596, in octavo in profe. 
 Leoni had elegance in his profe, but his poetry- 
 is indifferent, though much valued by many 
 people in Italy. 
 
 La Sofronia, Tragicomedia, di Giovan Andrea 
 Gessano. In Napoli,. per Lazero Scorrigio, 
 1 61 2, in duodecimo. 
 
 Tamar, Azione Tragica, di Giambattifta de 
 Velo. In Vicenza, per Agoftin della noce, 
 1586, in duodecimo, in profe. 
 This was the firft Italian tragedy that was written 
 in profe ; but the prologue and choruffes are 
 in verfe. 
 
 II Cianippo, Tr. di Agoftino Michele. In 
 Bergamo, per Comin Ventura, 1526, in quar- 
 to, in profe. 
 
 ll Coftantino, Tr. di Giambattifta Filippo Ghi- 
 RARDELLii In Roma, per Antonmaria Gio- 
 jofi, 1653, in duodecimo, in profe. 
 Ghirardelli died in Rome, when he was bufi 
 thirty years old, of a fever, that he got in 
 writing with too much application a defence 
 of this tragedy. 
 
 La Poliffena e il Crifpo, Tr. di Annibal Mar- 
 chese. In Napoli, per Nicolo Nafo, 1715, 
 in octavo. 
 
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 Tragedie cinque, di Vincenzo Gravina. In 
 Napoli, per Domenico Antonio e Nicola Par- 
 rino, 1 71 7, in octavo ; that is, II Pelamede, 
 T Andromeda, 1* Appio Claudio, il Papiniano, 
 ed il Scrvio Tullio. 
 
 Gravina was one of the mod learned men that 
 ever honoured Italy , but his tragedies are not 
 pleafing to read. 
 
 La Merope, del Marchefe Scipione Maffet, 
 which had the honour of being tranflated into 
 Englifh by Aaron Hill, and in French by Vol- 
 taire, though with fome changes. There is 
 alfo a German tranflatton of it, I have forgot 
 by whom. There are above fifty editions of 
 this tragedy. The bell edition I think is that 
 of London, by 1'hompfon, 1720, in octavo. 
 
 L' Achille, Tr. del Conte Gianantonio Monta- 
 nari. In Verona, in quarto. 
 
 II Dione, il Sedecia, and another tragedy, whofe 
 name I have forgot, written by Father Gra- 
 nelli, a Jefuit, (ftill living, as I think) ac- 
 quired much reputation to their author. 
 
 II Coriolano and la Didone, by Giampietro Za- 
 
 notti, printed in Bologna. The author lives 
 
 ftill. 
 
 His lyrick poetry pleafes me more than his 
 
 tragical. 
 L' Elettra del Conte Gafparo Gozzi, (already 
 
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 One Abbot Antonio Conti, a nobleman of Ve- 
 nice, writ alfo five tragedies, whofe names I 
 have forgot. They are very regular, but want 
 power. 
 
 Thefe are, I think, all the tragedies that are re- 
 membered in Italy as poems worth reading. 
 But I muft candidly tell an Englishman, that 
 he muft not expect to find any thing in them 
 like Shakefpear^ or Dry Jen. Our tragical ancient 
 poets generally want elevation and fire, and, on 
 this head, it is my opinion, that we are not 
 only inferior to the Englifh, but to the French 
 themfelves. 
 
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 Commedie. Comedies. 
 O D O V I CO Ariosto writ five comedies, 
 
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 entitled, La Caflfaria, la Scolaftica, I Sup- 
 
 pofui, la Lena, e il Negromante. The three 
 
 firfl he wric in profe, but then he changed them 
 
 into a kind of verfe called Sdruccioli , that is, 
 
 of twelve fyllables, the three lajl fyllables forming 
 
 a daftylum. They are printed both in profe 
 
 and verfe in many places, and lately in Venice, 
 
 by Giufeppe Bortoli, in duodecimo. 
 
 There is a tradition, fupported by fome written 
 
 authority, that Arioflo died of grief, becaufe 
 
 a magnificent play-houfe, built on purpofe by 
 
 the duke of Ferrara to reprefent thefe comedies 
 
 in, was accidentally burnt. 
 
 L' Error d' Amorc, Com. di Marco Guazzo, 
 
 inTerzaRima. In Ventzia, 1526. 
 
 I Simillimi, Com. di Gio. Giorgio Trissino.. 
 In Venezia, per Tolomeo Gianicolo, 1 547^ * n 
 oflavo, in verfe. 
 
 This is the celebrated 'Trijfmo of Vicenza, named 
 in other phces of this bopk. It is an imitation 
 of the Menecmi by Plautus. 
 
 II Filofofo, la Cortigiana, il Marefcalco, 1' Ippo- 
 crito, 1* Atalanta, Com. di Pietro Aretino. 
 Printed for feveral printers in Venice, in octa- 
 vo, all in profe, and all very bad for language, 
 but worfe for morals. 
 
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 I tre Tiranni, Com. di Agoftino Rice hi da 
 Lucca. In Venezia, per Bernardino de' Vi- 
 tali, 1533, in quarto, in verfe. 
 Riccbi, of Lucca, was at firft difciple of Are- 
 tino, who, in many of his letters, fpeaks with 
 tendernefs of him. He then applied to the 
 ftudy of phyfick, tranflated fome works of 
 Galen and Orilafius, and acquired fo much repu- 
 tation, that Pope; Jules III. made him his 
 phyfician. 
 
 Commcdia intitolata, fine nomine. In Firenze, 
 per i Giunti, 1574, in octavo, in profe. 
 
 La Polifila, Com. In Firenz?, per i Giunti, 
 1556, in octavo, in profe. 
 
 La Calandra, Com. di Bernardo da Bibbiena. 
 In Firenze, preffo i Giunti, 1559, in octavo, 
 in profe. 
 
 Some are of opinion, that this was the firfl: 
 comedy written in Italian. 
 
 L* Ariodifio, di Lorenzino de' Medici. In 
 Lucca, per Vincenzo Bufdrago, 1548, in 
 octavo, in profe. 
 
 The author of this comedy was the murderer 
 of his kinfman, Alexander de Medici, duke of 
 Florence. Rufcelli informs us, that Lorenzino, 
 fpeaking of his comedy, promifed, that, after 
 the recital of it, he would give a good tragedy, 
 meaning the murder he had refolved upon. 
 
 1 Lucidi, Com. di Angelo Firenzuola. In Fi- 
 renze, preffo i Giunti, 1549, in octavo, in 
 profe. 
 
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 La Trinuzia, Com. by the fame. In Firenze, 
 preflb i Giunti, 1549, in profe. Boch written 
 with the utmoft elegance. 
 
 La Suocera, Com. di Benedetto Varchi. In 
 Firenze, per Bartolommeo Sermatelli, 1569, 
 in profe. A pleafing thing. 
 
 Li Straccioni, Com. di Annibal Caro. In Ve- 
 nezia, preflb Aldo, 1582, in duodecimo, in 
 profe. One of the bed in the language. 
 
 La Sporta, Com. di Giovanbattifta Gelli. In 
 Firenze, per Bernardo Giunti, 1566, in octa- 
 vo, in profe. 
 
 Gelli, in his dedicatory letter and in the pro- 
 logue, fays, that he copied from Plautm and 
 Terence the greateft part of this comedy ; but 
 Jacopo Gaddi and Giuliano Ricci affirm, that it 
 was written by Maccbiavelli, and that Gelli y 
 intowhofe hand the manufcript fell, adding a 
 few things to it, publifhed it as his own work. 
 Lafca before them had ftid of Gello, 
 E fece ancb 9 Egli una Commedia nuova 
 Che /' avea prima fatta il Maccbiavelli. 
 
 L' Errore, Com. by the fame Gelli. In Fi- 
 renze, preflb i Giunti, 1603, in octavo, in 
 profe. 
 
 I Fantafmi, Com. d' Ercole Bentivoglio. In 
 Venezia, per Gabriello Giolito, 1545, in verfe. 
 
 II Gelofo, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb il 
 Giolito, 1545, in verfe. 
 
 If I remember well, there is an edition of thefe 
 two comedies made in Cambridge, with a 
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 Giambaltijla Giraldi faid, that to this Bentivogtie* 
 
 Deve la fcena 
 
 II rifo arguto e il motteggiar civile. 
 He was of Ferrara, and nephew to cardinal 
 Cornelio Bentivoglio, to whom he dedicated / 
 Fantafmi : and died in Venice in the year 1573* 
 much regretted by the Learned of that age. 
 L' Alchimifta, Com. di Bernardino Lombardt, 
 In Ferrara, preffo Victorio Baldini, 1583, in 
 octavo, in profe. 
 
 Lombardi was a comedian by profeflion, and of 
 much repute in Ita'y and France for his manner 
 of acting. Bsing in Paris, he publifhed the 
 tragedy of Tancredi, by Jfmari, count of Ca- 
 merano -, but, by an unaccountable blunder, 
 entitled it, La Gifmonda^ del Signer Torquato 
 Taffo. Perhaps he wanted money, and thought 
 that the name of Tajfo would help him to a 
 quick fale of the book. 
 
 II Medico, Com. di Jacopo Castellini. In 
 Firenze, per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1562, in 
 octavo, in verfe. 
 
 L' Alteria, Com. di Luigi Groto d' Adria. In 
 Venezia, per Fabio Zoppini, 1587, in duo- 
 decimo, in verfe. 
 
 L' Emilia, by the (lime. In Venezia, pel Zop- 
 pini, 1596, in duodecimo, in verfe. 
 
 II Teforo, by the fame. In Venezia, pel Zop- 
 pini, 1583, in octavo, in verfe. 
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 La Cofanaria, Com. di Francefco d' Ambra; 
 In Firenze, preflb i Giunti, 1563, in quarto, 
 in verfe. 
 
 I Bernardi, Com: by the fame, In Firenze, 
 preflb i Giunti, 1554, in octavo, in verfe. 
 
 II Furto, by the fame. In Firenze, preffo i 
 Giunti. 1 564, in octavo, in verfe. 
 
 La Gelofa, la Spiritata, la Strega, la Sibilla, la 
 Pinzochera, e i Parentadi, Com. fei, di Anton 
 Francefco Grazzini, detto il Lasca. In 
 Venezia, preffo i Giunti, 1582, in octavo, all 
 in profe. 
 
 This Lafca is famous for his burlefque poetry ; 
 and whatever he writ in profe is excellent. He 
 was one of the founders of the Accademia della 
 Crufca. 
 
 La Flora, Com. di Luigi Alamanni, with in- 
 terludes, by Andrea Lori. In Firenze, preffo 
 il Torrentino, 1556, in octavo, in verfe. 
 
 11 Velettajo, Com. di Nicolo Massucci. In 
 Firenze, per i Giunti, 1585, in octavo, in 
 verfe. 
 
 La Vedova, Com. di Nicolo Buonaparte. In 
 Firenze, peri Giunti, 1592, in octavo. 
 
 La Vedova, Com. di GiambattiftaCiNi. In Fi- 
 renze, preflb i Giunti, 1569, in octavo, in verfe. 
 The famous architect Barczzi da Vigncla, in his 
 Profpettiva Pratica, defcribes the apparatus and 
 changes of fcenes made ufe of in the reprefen- 
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 This comedy is the firft, I think, in which 
 many of the dialects of Italy were introduced. 
 Cini was an elegant profe-writer of Florence. 
 Le Commedie, di Giovanmaria Cecchi. In 
 Firenze, preffo i Giunti, 1585. They are ten ; 
 that is, 11 Servigiale, il Donzello, gl' Incan- 
 tefmi, la Moglie, il Corredo, lo Spirito, i Dif- 
 fimili, rAffiuolo, la Dote, andlaStiava. 
 Thefe comedies bear a great character, being 
 thought equal to Terence's. Few works are 
 written with more purity of language than 
 them, and they are all in blank verfe, except 
 the two Iaft, which are in profe. 
 Le Commedie, di Lodovico Dolce. Printed in 
 Venice at different times, each by itfelf. They 
 are five , that is, II Capitano, il Marito, and 
 laFabbrizia, in verfe ; il Ragazzo, and il Ruf- 
 fiano, in profe. 
 Il Granchio, Com. del Cavaliere Lionardo Sal- 
 viati. In Firenze, prcflb i Torrentini, 1556, 
 in octavo, in verfe. 
 La Spina, by the fame. In Firenze, per Cofimo 
 Giunti, 1706, in octavo, in profe. 
 Salviati was one of the founders of the Ace a- 
 demia della Crufca, and had fo much part 
 in the dictionary of thofe Academicians, 
 that fome writers thought him the fole au- 
 thor of what is contained in the firft edition. 
 The names of the other founders of that fa- 
 mous Accademy were Bernardo Camgiam, Gio- 
 vambattifta Grazzini, furnamed Lafca, named 
 above, Bernardo Zancbi, and Baftiano de* Roffi. 
 
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 They were all of Florence, and elegant writers, 
 efpecially Lafca, de' Roffi, and this Salviati. 
 
 Le due Perfilie, di Giovanni Fedini Pittore. In 
 Firenze, per li Giunti,. 1583, in octavo, in 
 profe. 
 
 La Mandragola e la Clizia, due Com. di Nicolo 
 Macchiavelli. In Venezia, 1537, in octavo, 
 in profe. 
 
 La Mandragola was reprefented for the firft 
 time before LeoX. on a magnificent ftage built 
 on purpofe in his palace. A ftrange fort of di- 
 verfion for a pope! 
 
 La Cecca, Com. di Girolamo R azzi. In Fi- 
 renze, preflb il Torrentino, 154.3, in octavo, 
 in profe. 
 
 La Balia, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb i 
 Giunti, 1560, in octavo, in profe. 
 
 La Coftanza, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb * 
 Giunti, 1565, in octavo, in profe. 
 Razzi, of Florence, fays Aprftolo Zeno^ writ 
 thefe three comedies when he was very young > 
 but foon after he chofe to be a monk of the 
 order of St. Romualdo, changed his name 
 of Girolamo into that of Silvano, and writ many 
 pious things which are in grear repute in Italy. 
 
 II Furbo, Com. di Criftoforo Castelletti. In 
 Venezia, preflb Alefiandro Griffio, 1584, in 
 duodecimo. 
 
 Le Stravaganze d' Amore, by the fame. In Ve- 
 preflb i Seffa, 1587, in duodecimo. 
 
 I Furti Amorofi, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb 
 
 iScffa, 1596, in duodecimo. 
 
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 Amore Scolaftico, Com. di RaffaelloMARTiNi. In 
 Firenze, per Filippo Giunti 1508, in octavo. 
 
 Due Commedie di Lorenzo Comparini 5 that is, 
 II Pellegrino, and il Ladro. In Venezia, per 
 Giolito, 1554? in duodecimo. 
 
 L* Aleffandro, Com. di Aleflandro Piccolo- 
 mini. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1562, in 
 duodecimo. 
 
 L' Amor Coftante, by the fame. In Venezia> 
 per Jacopo Cornetti, 1586, in octavo. 
 
 L' Ortenfio, Com. degli Accademici Intro- 
 nati. In Siena, per Luca Bonetti, 1571, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Gl' Ingannati, Com. degli Accademici Intro- 
 nati. In Siena, per Matteo Florimi, 1611, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Thefe four comedies, written by Piccohmini in 
 his youth, though interfperfed with many words 
 of the Sienefe dialect, are very elegant and 
 pleafing to read, abating fome little immorality ; 
 but fo corrupted were the manners of Italy in 
 the famous interval from Politian to Tajfo, that 
 there is fcarce a poet of note free from this 
 vice. Boccaiini, who was a better judge of the 
 writings of others than of his own, fays, that 
 Piceolomini, as a writer of comedies, deferves 
 the flrft place amongft the Italians. 
 
 La Peilegrina, Com. di Girolamo Bargagli. 
 In Siena, per Luca Bonetti, 1589, in quarto. 
 
 Gli Scambi, Com. dell' Aperto Intronato ; 
 that is, by Belifario Bulgarini. In Siena, 
 per Matteo Florimo, 161 1, in duodecimo. 
 
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 Of thefe fix laft comedies there is an edition 
 with this title, Commedie degli Accademici 
 Intronati di Siena raccolte nuovamente, ri- 
 vedute, e riftampate. In Siena, per Bartolo- 
 meo Francefchi, 1611, 2 torn, in duodecimo. 
 
 Gl' Ingiufti Sdegni, Com. di Bernardino Pino. 
 In Venezia, preflb Giufeppe Guglielmo, 1576, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 I Falfi Sofpetti, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb 
 il Seffa, 1588, in duodecimo. 
 
 Lo Stratta, by the fame. In Roma, per Vincenzo 
 Laurino, 1551, in octavo. 
 
 L* Evagria, by the fame. In Venezia, per gli 
 Eredidi Marchio Seffd, 1584, in duodecimo. 
 Pino was of Cagli, and his works, efpeciaily 
 his Galantuomo, (the boneft man) are in great 
 reputation. 
 
 L' Erofilomachia, overo Duello d' A more e a? 
 Amicizia, Com. di Sforza d' Oddi. In Ve- 
 nezia, prefio i Seffa, 15S6, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Prigione cT Amore, by the fame. In Fi- 
 renze, per Filippo Giunti, 1592, in quarto. 
 
 I Morti Vivi, by the fame. In Venezia, per il 
 Seffa, 1597, in duodecimo. 
 Oddi, of Perugia, queftioned by Pope Clement 
 VIII. whether he writ any more comedies, an- 
 gered, blufhing, Beatijftma Pater, del: 8a ju- 
 venilis me* ne memineris. He died in Parma, 
 in the year 16 10, being fecretary to that duke. 
 
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 Ii Padre Afflitto, Com. di Aleflandro Cenzio. 
 InVenezia, per Aleflandro de* Vecchi, 1606* 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 L' Amico Infedele, by the fame. In Macerata, 
 preflb Pier Salvioni, 1617, in duodecimo. 
 Aleflandro Cenzio was a nobleman of Macerata, 
 and was the father of Carlo Cenzio, a learned 
 man of that age as well as his father. 
 
 La Prigione, Com. di Boflb Argenti Ferrarefe. 
 
 In Venezia, per il Seflfa, 1587, in duodecimo. 
 Le Due Cortigiane, Com. di Lodovico Dome- 
 
 nichi. In Firenze, preflb il Torrentino, 1563, 
 
 in octavo. 
 
 La Meftola, Conn di Cornelio Lanci. In Fi- 
 renze, per Giorgio Mare fcotti, 1583, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 This Lanci was a nobleman of Urbino. His 
 comedies are full of humour. 
 
 La Nicolofa, by the fame. In Firenze, per Bar- 
 tolommeo Sermatelli, 1591, in duodecimo. 
 
 L' Olivetta, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb il 
 Sermatelli, 1587, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Pimpinelia, by the fame. In Urbino, per 
 Bartolommeo Ragufi, 1588, in octavo* 
 
 La Ruchetta, by the fame. In Firenze, per il 
 Sermatelli, 1584, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Scrocca, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb il 
 Sermatelli, 1585, in duodecimo. 
 
 Ii Vefpa, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb il 
 Sermatelli, 1586, in duodecimo. 
 
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 II Beffa, Com. di Nicolo Secchi. In Parma, 
 
 per Ser Viotto, 1584, in octavo. 
 La Cameriera, by the fame. In Venezia, per 
 
 Cornelio Arrivabene, 1583, in octavo. 
 
 Gl' Inganni, by the fame. In Firenze, preflb i 
 Giunti, 1582, in octavo. 
 
 L' Intereffe, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb 
 Francefco Ziletti, 158 1, in octavo. 
 Count Nicclo Secchi, of Brefcia, was a poet, a 
 fcholar, a ftatefman, and a foldier. He was 
 fent by the emperor Charles V. on many em- 
 baffles, and employed in affairs of great im- 
 portance. His comedies for plot, humour, 
 and language are equal to any in Italian. His 
 Latin writings are in reputation. 
 
 I Contend, Com. di Girolamo Parabosco. In 
 
 Venezia, preflb ilGiolito, 1560, in duodecimo. 
 L 9 Ermafrodito, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb 
 
 il Giolito, 1560, in duodecimo. 
 La Fantefca, by the fame. In Venezia, per ii 
 
 Seffa, per il Sefia, 1567, in duodecimo. 
 
 II Ladro, by the fame. In Venezia, 1555, in 
 octavo. 
 
 II Marinajo, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb il 
 
 Giolito, 1560, in duodecimo. 
 La Notte, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb il 
 
 Giolito, 1560, in duodecimo. 
 II Pellegrino, by the fame. In Venezia, per il 
 
 Giolito, 1562, in duodecimo. 
 
 II Viluppo, by the fame. In Venezia, per il 
 
 Giolito, 1568, in duodecimo. ... 
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 Parabofco, a voluminous writer, would fcarce 
 be remembered, had he not writ chefe humo- 
 rous comedies. -' 
 
 La Virginia 1 , Com. di Bernardo Accolti. In 
 Venezia, per Bartolomeo Cefano, 1553, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Accolti, furnamed Unico Aretino, was one of 
 the greateft lords of his time in Italy, being 
 abiblute matter of fome towns and caftles. Be- 
 fides this comedy, which is in rhyme, we have 
 fome other poetry by him. He was the fori 
 of Benedetto Accolti, a writer of hifiory. Many 
 of his relations, and particularly Pktro his bro- 
 ther, and Benedict his nephew, both cardinals 
 and archbifhops of Ravenna, were great patrons 
 of literature. 
 
 La Pefcara, Com. di Luca Contile. In Mi- 
 lano, per Francefco Marchefino, 1554, in 
 quarto. 
 
 La Cefarea, by the fame. In Milano, per il 
 Marchefino, 1550, in quarto. 
 
 La Trinozia, by the fame. In Milano, per il 
 Marchefino, 1550, in quarto. 
 Thefe three comedies are the beft things that 
 Contile wrote, and will laft longer than his other 
 poetical compofitions. Caro praifes him much 
 in his letters. 
 
 L' Amante Furiofo, Com. di Raffaelo Borghini. 
 In Firenze, per Giorgio Marefcotti, 1583, in 
 duodecimo. 
 
 La Donna Coftante, by the fame. In Firenze, 
 prefifo il Marefcotti, 1582, in duodecimo. 
 
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 II Fortunio, Com. di Vincenzio Giusti da 
 Udine. In Venezia, per Nicolo Moretti, 1593, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Commedie di Giambattifta della Porta, riftam- 
 pate in Napoli, da Gennaro Muzio, 1726, in 
 quarto. 
 
 They are fourteen in number , that is, I due 
 Fratelli Rivali, i due Fratelli fimili, la Taber- 
 naria, la Cintia, il Moro, V Olimpia, la Chiap- 
 pinaria, la Carbonaria, la Sorella, la Turca, 
 la Fantefca, 1' Aftrologo, la Furiofa, la Trap- 
 polaria. The old editions of thefe comedies 
 are very fcarce, and much fought for. 
 Ninetta, Com. di Cefare CaporaLi. In Vene- 
 zia, per Giambattifta Colefini, 1604, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 Lo Sciocco, by the fame. In Venezia, preflb U 
 
 Combi, 1628, in duodecimo. 
 La Berenice, Com. di Gianfrancefco Loredano. 
 In Venezia, alia Libreria della Speranza, 1601, 
 in octavo. 
 II Bigoncio, by the fame. In Venezia, per Bar- 
 
 tolomeo degli Alberti, 1608, in octavo. 
 L* Incendio, by the fame. In Venezia, alia Li- 
 breria della Speranza, i597 > in octavo. 
 La Malandrina, by the fame. In Venezia, all* 
 
 Infegna della Speranza, 1587, in octavo. 
 La Matrigna, by the fame. In Venezia, alia 
 
 Speranza, 1601, in octavo. 
 La Turca, by the fame. In Venezia, alia Li- 
 breria della Speranza, 1597, in octavo. 
 
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 I Vani Amori, by the fame. In Venezia, all* 
 Infegna della Speranza, 1587, in octavo. 
 
 L' Idropica, Com. del Cavalier Giambattifta 
 Guarini. In Venezia, per Giambattifta 
 Ciotti, 1 614, in octavo. Much worfe than his 
 Paftor Fido. 
 
 L' Alvida, Com. di Ottavio d* Isa da Capova. 
 InNapoli, per Jacopo Carlerio, 1616, in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 La Flamminia, by the fame. In Viterbo, preflb 
 
 i Difcepoli, 1621, in duodecimo. 
 La Fortunia, by the fame. In Napoli, per Tar- 
 
 quinio Longo, 161 2. 
 La Ginevra, by the fame. In Napoli, per Ca- 
 
 millo Cavallo, 1645, in duodecimo. 
 
 II Eylal Maritato, by the fame. In Napoli, per 
 Ottavio Beltrame, 1633, in duodecimo. 
 
 L' Americo, Com. di Arrigo Altani, Conte 
 
 di Salvarolo. In Venezia, per Gherardo Im- 
 
 berti, 1621, in duodecimo. 
 Le Mafcherate, by the fame. In Trevigi, per 
 
 Nicol6 Righettini, 1633, in duodecimo. 
 II Mecam Bafca, ovvero il Garbulio, by the fame. 
 
 In Trevigi, per Agnolo Righettini, 1625, m 
 
 duodecimo. 
 La Prigioniera, by the fame. In Venezia, per 
 
 Gherardo Iberti, 1622, in duodecimo. 
 
 IlCandelajo, Com. di Giordano Bruno da Nola. 
 In Parigi, 1582, in octavo. 
 Of this acheiftical writer I fhall fpeak in another 
 place. 
 
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 Tre Commedie di Filippo Gaetano, Duca di 
 Sermonta , that is, La Schiava, 1* Ortenfio, 
 and i Due Vecchi. In Napoli, per Ettore Cic- 
 conio, 1644, in quarto. 
 
 II Forca, Com. del Dottor Nicoio Amenta. In 
 Venezia, preffo Giacomo Prodotti, 1700, in 
 duodecimo. 
 
 La Fante, by the fame. In Napoli, per Carlo 
 Troifi, 1701, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Somiglianza, by the fame. In Venezia, per 
 Giovanni Prodotti, 1706, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Giuftina, by the fame. In Napoli, preflb 
 Michel Luigi Muzzi, 171 7, in octavo. 
 If I am no: miftaken, there is an edition of 
 Naples, containing the above four comedies, 
 and two or three more by the fame author. 
 They are perhaps the wittiefl that we have in 
 Italian , but the author makes fome of his 
 actors appear mafqued and fpeak different dia- 
 lects of Italy, efpecially the Neopolitan. 
 In the year 1741, I faw in Venice a collection 
 of old Italian tragedies and comedies, made by 
 the learned poet and antiquarian Apofiolo Zeno y 
 to the number, as he affjred me, of about four 
 thoufand. He hid the beft Italian library per- 
 haps in the world, and I was lately told, that 
 he left it at his death to the Gefuati, an order 
 of monks, refiding in Venice, where I fuppofe 
 the comedies are ftill kept united. 
 
 I could have eafiiy enlarged the number of tho( e 
 that I regifterhere ; but I would rather have a 
 fdect, than a large collection. 
 
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 If in tragedies, as I faid, we are inferior to the 
 Englifli and French, no nation can, on the 
 other hand, be compared with us for pleafantry 
 and humour in comedy ; and a foreigner can- 
 not read any thing more elegant as to language 
 than our old plays, efpecially thofe written by 
 Florentine authors ; but I muft repeat that he 
 will not be edified by their morals. 
 
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 120 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 
 
 Paftorali, e Pefcatorie, Pajloral and Pifca- 
 tory Plays, 
 
 L* Aminta, Favola Bofchereccia di Torquato 
 Tasso, con le Annotazioni di Egidio Me- 
 nagio. In Parigi, per Agoftino Curbe, 1655, 
 in quarto. There are many editions of Lon-t 
 don, with Englifh tranflations into verfe and 
 profe. 
 II Paftor Fido, Tragicomedia Paftorale del Cava- 
 lier Battifta Guarini. 
 
 There are numberlefs editions of this paftoral, 
 and fome of them in London. It is faid, that 
 torquato Tajfi, on feeing it reprefented, looked 
 vexed, and faid, If Guarini had not feen my 
 AmintaSy he had not excelled it. If this is true, 
 TaJJo was as much in the wrong as Milton fur 
 preferring his Paradife Regained to his Loft j 
 the Paftor Fido being full of unnatural charac- 
 ters, falfe thoughts, and epjgrammatick turns : 
 befides thar, Faffo had the merit of being the 
 inventor of paltoral flile. 
 La Filli di Sciro, Favola Paftorale di Guido Bo- 
 narelli. In Ferrara, per Vittorio Baldinr, 
 1607, in quarto, with cuts. 
 The three above paftorals were often printed 
 together, as if they were equally good. For 
 my part, I am never willing to appear lingular 
 in my notions y yet cannot help faying, that I 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, m 
 
 am little pjeafed with Paftor Fido t and not at 
 all with Filli di Sciro. 
 II Sacrificio, Favola Paftorale di Agoftino Bec* 
 cari. In Ferrara, 1555, in duodecimo. 
 
 L* Aretufa, Com media Paflorale di Alberto Lol- 
 
 tio. In Ferrara, per Valente Panizza, 1564, 
 
 in o&avo. 
 
 I faid in another place that Lollio was an elegant 
 
 writer. 
 L' Egle, Satira di Giambattifta Giraldi Cintio, 
 
 in oclavo, without year, place, or printer. 
 
 Cintio never writ a better ftiie in Italian than in 
 
 this his paftoral. 
 
 II Pemimento Amorofo, Favola Paftorale di Luigt 
 Groto Cieco d* Adria. In Venezia, per gli 
 Zoppini, 1583, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Califto, Favola Paftorale, by the fame. In 
 Venezia, per gli Zoppini, 1583, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Flori, Favola Bofchereccia di Maddalena 
 Campigua. In Vicenza, preffo Tomafo Bru- 
 nello, 1588, in octavo. 
 Though this poetefs wanted power, yet I wifli I 
 could find who (he was. 
 
 Jl Filarmindo, Favola Paftorale di RidolfoCAM^ 
 
 peggi. In Bologna, per Giovanni Roffi, 
 
 1605, in quarto. 
 
 This Filarmindo is no defpicable piece. 
 L' Amorofo Sdegno, Favola Paftorale di Fran- 
 
 cefco Bracciolini. In Venezia, preffo il 
 
 Ciotti, 1597, in duodecimo. 
 
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 122 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 L* Alceo, Favola Pefcatoria, di Antonio Onga- 
 ro. InVenezia, per Francefco Ziletti, 1582, 
 in octavo. 
 
 If any of our paftoral writers deferve to be 
 compared with Taffb, it was this Ongaro, in my 
 humble opinion, always ahacing the merit of 
 invention, which no body can difpute with TaJJo. 
 
 L' Amaranta, Favola Pefcatoria di Giovanni 
 Villifranchi. In Venezia, per Bernardo 
 Giunti, 161 2, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Fiera, e la Tancia, Commedie di Michelag- 
 agnolo Buonarroti il Giovine. 
 
 "While the Academicians delta Crufca were com- 
 piling their Dictionary, Michelangelo Buonar- 
 roti (nephew to the famous architect, painter, 
 flatury, and poet) writ a comedy in twenty- 
 five acts, or rather five comedies following one 
 another, entitled, La Fiera, the Mart. In 
 thefe five comedies he introduced very many 
 people, each fpeaking of his own trade. This 
 he did in order to furnifh the Academicians 
 with common and vulgar words feldom to be 
 met in writers. This comedy was printed in 
 Florence by Tartini e Franchi, 1726, in folio, 
 with multitude of notes by the learned abbot 
 Antonmaria Salvini. 
 
 There is another comedy, entitled, La Tancia, 
 Commedia Rujlicale, by the fame Buonarroti, 
 printed in Florence by Cofimo Giunti, 1612, 
 in quarto, and 161 5, in octavo, and reprinted 
 Vtth the above Fiera, with notes by the iame 
 
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 Salvini. The Fiera is in verfe of different 
 metres ; the Tancia is in Ottava Rima, and in 
 the dialect of the Florentine peafants ; and, in 
 my opinion, is the beft and mod plealing co- 
 medy in our language. 
 
 II Trimpella Trasformato, Commedia Rufticale, 
 di Ridolfo Martellini. In Siena, preffo il Ho- 
 rimi, 161 8, in octavo. 
 
 II Cohellino, Commedia Rufticale* In Siena, alia 
 Loggia del Papa, 1608, in octavo. 
 
 Lo Strafcino, Commedia Rufticale, di Nicolo 
 Campani Sanefe. In Firenze, nel Garbo, 
 1573, in octavo. 
 
 Magrino, Commedia Rufticale, by the fame, in 
 Terza Rima. In Firenze, nel Garbo, 1572, 
 in octavo. 
 
 The above four comedies are excellent in thei* 
 kind. 
 
 Mr. Waljby in a letter to Mr. Pope, fays, " I 
 " find Menage, in his obfervations upon TaJJo's 
 " Amlntas, reckons up fourfcore paftoral plays 
 " in Italian ; and, in looking over my old Ita- 
 " lian books, I find a great many paftoralsand 
 " pifcatory plays, which I fuppofe Menage 
 ". reckons together. I find alfo by Menage, 
 " that Tajfo is not the firft that writ in that 
 " kind, he mentioning another before him, 
 " which hehimfelf had never feen, nor indeed 
 <c have I. But as the Aminta, P after Fido, 
 *< and Filli di Sciro are the three beft, io I 
 <c think there is no difpute but Aminta is the 
 <c beft of the three. 
 
 I will 
 
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 124 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 I will end this article of our tragedies, come- 
 dies, and plays of all denominations with in- 
 forming the reader, that, at prefent, we have 
 nothing in Italy but mufical operas, like thofe 
 exhibited at the Opera-houfe in the Hay-market, 
 and a kind of plays commonly divided into 
 three acts, and recited extempore by different 
 companies of low-witted fellows. The ferious 
 farts, as they call them, are in Tufcan, (not 
 of the Deft, indeed ;) the comical parts, by 
 Pantalone, Arlecchino, Brighella, Dottore, 
 Coviello, and fome others, fpeaking various 
 dialects of Italy. If they make people laugh 
 with their repartees and immoral jefts, they have 
 an audience ; if not, they ftarve. Authors of 
 Operas we have none that deferve to be named, 
 excepting Apojtolo Zeno and Pietro Metaftafio. 
 The poetry of Zeno is a little harm 5 but Me- 
 tajtq/to's is harmony itfelf j and although he is 
 dill living at Vienna, yet his works have been 
 printed above thirty times in a few years. 
 Our old and good tragedies and comedies are 
 confined to colleges and feminaries, where ftu- 
 dents act them in the Carneval time. 
 
 Poeti
 
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 Poeti Greci volgarizzati. Greek Poets 
 tranjlated into Italian, 
 
 L' Iliade d' Omero, tradottain Ottava Rima 
 da Berardino Leo. In Roma, per Bartolo- 
 meoTofib, 1573, in duodecimo, twelve books 
 only. 
 L' Iliade d* Omero, tradotta in Lingua Italiana 
 da Paolo Bad ess a. In Padova, per Graziofo 
 Percacino, 1564, in quarto, in blank verfe and 
 five books only. 
 L' Iliade, tradotta in Ottava Rima da Giambat- 
 tifta Tebaldi. In Ronciglione, perLodovico 
 Grignani e Lorenzo Lupis, 1630, in duodecimo. 
 U Iliade, tradotta in Italiano da Francefco Sera- 
 fino Regnier Defmarai?. In Parigi, per 
 Claudio Cellier, 1698, in duodecimo, in blank 
 verfe, and the eight firft books only, with fome 
 other of his Italian works. 
 No foreigner ever knew fo much of our lan- 
 guage as this Monfieur Defmarais. 
 There are many Italian tranilations of feverai 
 books of the Iliad ; one in particular by one 
 FrancefcoGuzZANO, printed in Venezia, per 
 Comin da Trino, 1544, in octavo, who, in 
 his dedicace to Peter Aretino, promifes to pub- 
 lifh the other 23 books as foon as he has fpurgati 
 / itkuni errori-, that is, polifhed them. But 
 
 our
 
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 our mod celebrated trantlation of Homer's 
 works is the following : 
 
 L' Iliade d' Omero, tradotta dalF original Greco 
 dair Abate Antonmaria Salvini. In Firenze, 
 per Gio. Gaetano Tartini e Santi Franchi, 
 1523, in octavo. 
 
 L' Odiflfea di Omero (con la Batracomiomachia e 
 gl* Inni) tradotta dall' original Greco, by the 
 fame, and printed as above, both in blank verfe? 
 Thefe tranflations are reckoned literal, but I 
 could never find them delightful to read. 
 
 L' Odiflea, tradotta in volgar Fiorentino, in blank 
 verfe, da Girolamo Baccelli. In Firenze, 
 preflb il Sermatelli, 1582, in octavo. 
 In the library of the marquis Riccardi at 
 Florence are preferved the fevcn firft books 
 of the Iliad tranflated by this Baccelli, who 
 was hindered by death from finiihing this, and 
 polifhing both poems. 
 
 Oppiano della Pefca e della Caccia tradotto dal 
 Greco, dall' Abate Antonmaria Salvini, e 
 illuftrato con varie Annotazioni. In Firenze, 
 preffo Tartini e Franchi, 1728, in octavo, 
 in blank verfe. 
 
 Tutte T Opere d' Efiodo, tradotte dali* Abate 
 Antonmaria Salvini. In Padova, 1747. 
 Salvini has alfo left Apollonius, Proclus Licius, 
 Callimachus, Aratus, Dionyfius, Periegetes, 
 Manetho, Nycander, Nonnus Polopolita, Te- 
 ognides, and other Greek authors, tranflated 
 into Italian j but the pofleflbrs of his valuable 
 
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 manufcripts had not delivered them to the 
 printers when I lefc Italy. Our Literati had 
 the utmofi veneration for Salvini, and many 
 foreigners have fpoke of his immenfe erudition, 
 amongft whom father Bernard Montfaucon, in 
 his Italick Diary, fays, that he never met, ei- 
 ther at home or on his travels, with any body 
 who knew more Greek than Sahini , and I will 
 fay it here, that, befides his numerous tranfla- 
 tions from that language, we have alfo Addi- 
 forfs Cato> trandated by him from the Englifh, 
 and other things from other languages. But 
 his moft pleafing works are his three volumes 
 of difcourfes, his letters, and fome of his poe- 
 tical compofitions, which are, perhaps, more 
 pleafing to read than his tranflations, becaufe, 
 when he made thefe, he wanted to be literal, 
 that he might help his countrymen to under- 
 ftand the originals, and did not give his ima- 
 gination that fcope, which he could give it when 
 he writ by himfelf. I fhall have occafion to 
 mei.tion fome of his other works in fome other 
 place. 
 
 La Batracomiomachia d' Omero, tradotta in Ter- 
 za Rima, da Giorgio Sommaripa Veronefe. 
 InVerona, 1470, in quano. A very pretty thing. 
 
 Ode di Pindaro, tradotte da AlefTandro Adi- 
 mari. In Pifa, per Francefco Tanagii, 1631, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Zeno, who had fcarce a rival in the knowlege 
 of the Greek tongue, fry?, that he often feeks 
 
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 in vain for Pindar in Adimari, but attributes it 
 to the impofilbility of tranflating that poer. 
 
 Un'Oda di Saffo tradotta da Francefco Anguil- 
 la con ampio commento* In Venezia, 1572, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Teocrito volgarizzato da Antonmaria Salvini. 
 In Venezia, prefTo Baftian Coleti, 1717, in 
 duodecimo. 
 
 There is another translation by Regolotti, a pro- 
 feflbr of Greek in the Univerfity of Turin. 
 
 Anacreonte tradotto in verfi da Francefco Anto- 
 nio Cappone. In Venezia, 1670. 
 
 Anacreonte, tradotto in verfi da Bartolomeo 
 Corsini. In Parigi, 167 ?, in duodecimo. 
 Printer unknown. 
 
 Anacreonte, tradotto in verfi e di Annotazioni 
 illuftrato dall' Abate Regnier. In Parigi, 
 per Giambattifta Coignard, 1693, in octavo. 
 
 Anacreonte, tradotto da Antonmaria Salvini. 
 In Firenze, per i Bindi, 1695, in duodecimo. 
 
 Anacreonte, tradotto da Aleffandro Marchetti. 
 In Lucca, 1707, in quarto. 
 I have feen an edition of thefe five tranflations 
 of Anacreon printed together, and they are all 
 very gocd, efpecially thofc by Regnier and 
 Marchetti. Corfini has alfo left in manufcript 
 a burlefque epick poem, entitled, 77 Torrac- 
 cbione, part of which I have read, and it pleafed 
 me much. 
 
 L' Ecuba Tragedie di Euripide, tradotta in Lin- 
 gua volgare da Giambattifta GELLi,in octavo, 
 place, printer, and year unknown. 
 
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 Gelli was a poor fhoe-maker of Florence ; fome 
 fay he was a taylor. Mat them Tofcanus writ 
 (his epigram in his praife. 
 
 ^u<e calamo aternos conferipfit dexiera libros 9 
 
 S<epe hxc cum gemino forfice rexit acum. 
 Induit hie bominum peritura corpora vejte, 
 Senfa tamen libris non peritura dedit. 
 The Italian writings of Gelli are in pure Ian* 
 guage. 
 L' Ecuba, tradotta da Lodovico Dolce. In 
 
 Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1543, in octavo. 
 L' Ecuba, tradotra da Giovanni Balcianelli. 
 In Verona, 1592, in octavo. 
 
 Three years ago they were printing in Padua the 
 nineteen tragedies of Euripides, with an Italian 
 tranflation, and notes in Latin and Italian. 
 The trandation is by Michelangelo Carmeli, 
 profefibr of the Oriental Tongues in that Uni- 
 verfity. 
 
 II Ciclope d' Euripide, tradotto da Antonmaria 
 Salvini. In Firenze, per Giufeppe Manni, 
 1728, in quarto. 
 
 L' Edipo, Tragedia di Sofocle, tradotta da Or- 
 fatto Giustiniano Patrizio Veneto. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Francefco Ziletti, in quarto. 
 This excellent tranflation was reprefented in 
 Vicenza in the year 1584, with magnificent 
 decorations by the Olimpian Academicians on 
 their famous theatre in that ciry ; and the learned 
 blind man Luigi Groto, furnamed 77 Cieco d'Adria, 
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 130 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 the blind man of Adria, {as I faid in another 
 place) was invited by the Academicians to act 
 the part of blind Edipus in the trigedy. Or- 
 fatto Giujliniano was a poet and a phyfician. 
 L' Edipo di Sofocle, tradotto da Pietro Angeii 
 Bargeo. In Firenze, per Bartolomeo e- 
 matelli, 1589, in octavo. 
 
 Edipo, tradotto da Girolamo Giustiniano Ge- 
 novefe. In Venezia, per Baftian Combi, 16 10, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 L* Elettra di Sofocle, fatta volgsre da Erafmo di 
 Valvasone. In Venezia, preffo i Gutrra, 
 1588, in octavo. 
 
 Le Commedie d' Ariftofane, tradotte da Banolo- 
 meo e Pietro Rositini da Prato Alboino. In 
 Venezia, per Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1545, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Thefe two Rofitini, and another called Lodovico, 
 were brothers, and all three phyficians by pro- 
 fefllon. 
 
 L' Eneide di Virgilio. In Milano, per Ugonem 
 deRugeriis, 149 1. Translator unknown. 
 
 L* Eneide di Virgilio, tradotta da Tommafo 
 Cambiatore da Reggio (in Lomba r dia) in 
 Terza Rima. In Venezia, per Bernardino de' 
 Vitali, 1532, in octavo. 
 The manufcript of this tranflation fell into the 
 hands of Giampaolo Vajio, a Venetian, who, 
 having corrected it carefully, gave it to Bernar- 
 dino de' Vitali to print 5 but in the year 1738 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 131 
 
 printing it again, he expunged the name of 
 Cambiatore^ and put his own inftead. 
 L' Eneide di Virgilio, tradotta da Annibal Caro, 
 in blank verfe. In Trevifo, preflb Evange- 
 Ma Dtuchino, 1603, in quarto. 
 I regifter this edition, becaufe many people 
 think itthebeft; but there are many, both an- 
 cient and modern* which are very good. This 
 is reckoned our capital tranflation of the iEneid; 
 
 L' Eneide di Virgilio, tradotta in Ottava Rima, 
 dal Padre B.irtolomeo Beverini Lucchefe. In 
 Roma, preflb il Bernabo, 1 700, in quarto. 
 This tranflation I do not think inferior to Card's, 
 though it is not fo univerfally known. There 
 is an edition with the Lai in afide. 
 
 L' Eneide di Virgilio, tradotta in verfo fciolto da 
 Teodoro Angeluccl In Napoli, per Ettore 
 Cicconio, 1 649, in duodecimo. 
 This alfo is a very elegant tranflation. 
 
 L' Eneide in Tofcano, in Ottava Rima, del Ca- 
 valier Cerretani Sanefe. In Firenze, per 
 Lorenzo Torrentino, 1560, in quarto. 
 
 L' Eneide, tradotta da Lelio Guidiccioni Luc- 
 chefe. In Roma, 1642, in octavo. 
 
 L* Eneide, ridotta in Ottava Rima, da Ercole 
 Udine Mantovano. In Venezia, per Bernardo 
 Giunti, 1607, in quarto. 
 
 Tutte 1' Opere di Virgilio, tradotte in verfi fciolti 
 da diverfi Autori e raccolte da Lodovico Do- 
 menicht. In Firenze, per i Giunti, 1556; 
 in octavo. 
 
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 132 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 This tranflation by twelve different authors is 
 very good and fcarce. The authors were Alef- 
 fandro Sanfedoni of Siena, Cardinal Ippolito de* 
 Medici of Florence, Bernardino Borghefi of 
 Siena, Lodovico Martelli of Florence, Tom- 
 mafo Porcacchi of Caftiglione Aretino, Alef- 
 fandro Piccolomini of Siena, Giufeppe BetuJJioi 
 BafTano, Lionardo Ghini of Cortona, Bernar- 
 dino Miner betti of Florence fbifhop of Arezzo) 
 Lodovico Domenichi of Piacenza, Bernardino 
 Daniello of Lucca, and Paolo Mini of Florence. 
 
 I primi quattro Libri dell' Eneide, tradotti da Gi- 
 rolamo Zoppio. In Bologna, per AlefTandro 
 Benacci, 1658, in octavo. 
 
 I fei primi Libri dell' Eneide di Virgilio, tra- 
 
 dotti e dedicati a piu illuftri ed onorate Donne 
 (Sanefi.) In Venezia, per Comin da Trino, 
 1540, in octavo. The tranQators are, Alef- 
 fandro Sanfedoni, cardinal Ipolito de 1 Medici^ 
 (fome fay Francefco Maria Molza) Bernardino 
 Borghefi^ Bartolomeo Carli, Aldobrando Cerrt- 
 tani, and AlefTandro Piccolomini. 
 
 II primo Libro, tradotto inOttavaRima da Gio- 
 vanni Andrea dell' Anguillara. In Padova, 
 per Graziofo Percacino, 1564, in quarto. 
 Anguillara was hindered by death from finifhing 
 his tranflation of the TEneid. Had he finifhed 
 it, it would have been more pleafing to read 
 than any of the above-named, if we can judge 
 by this fpecimen. 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 133 
 
 II primo Libro dell' Enea, tradotto da Lodovic* 
 Dolce, in Octava Rima. In Venezia, per 
 Giorgio de' Cavalli. 
 
 Dolce has alfo written a poem, entitled, VEnea y 
 in thirteen books, printed in Venezia, per Gio- 
 vanni Varifco, 1568, in quarto; he writ alfo 
 another poem, entitled, V Acbille, of which 
 this Enea is a continuation, printed, dal Giolito, 
 1572, in quarto. Thefe two poems are a free 
 translation of the Iliad and the Mneis. 
 Apoflolo Zeno, in his notes on the Eloquenza Ita- 
 liana by Fontanini, mentions many translations 
 of the Mmidy which are dill extant in the li- 
 braries of Italy, by different authors. And I 
 forbear to register a multitude of translations of 
 fundry books of ir, translated by different 
 hands, which are printed, though fome of them 
 are well done. 
 
 La Bucolica di Virgilio, tradotta da Bernardo 
 Pulci. In Fiorenza, 1494. Printer unknown. 
 This Pulci y I faid in another place, was the 
 firft Italian translator into verfe. There is ano- 
 ther edition of La Bucolica, anterior to this. 
 
 La Bucolica di Virgiiio, tradotta per Fratrem 
 Evangeliftam Foss a de Cremona, Ordinis Ser- 
 vorum. In Venezia, per Criftophorum de 
 Penfis de Mandello, in quarto. 
 Tho* this translation in profe has no date ; yet, 
 by the Latin of the title page, and the paper 
 and characters, it appears, that it was printed 
 before the year 1 500. 
 
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 134 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 La Bucolica di Virgilio, tradotta da Vincenzia 
 Menni. In Perugia, per Girolamo Bianchino, 
 1544, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Georgica di Virgilio, tradotta per Bernardino 
 Daniello ecommentata. In Venezia, preffo 
 il Grifio, 1549, in quarto. 
 A fire that burnt a country-houfe of this ele- 
 gant Lucchefe deprived us of a hiftory of his 
 country, and of a large volume of his lyrick 
 poetry, which he had ready for the prefs -, ye$ 
 he had conftancy enough to laugh at his cala- 
 mity, and lived a long iife. 
 
 La Georgica, tradotta in verfi fciolti da Anton- 
 m rio Negrisoli. In Venezia, per Nicole* 
 Bofcarini, 1552, in octavo. 
 Negrifoli, a nobleman of Ferrara, was many 
 years in the fervice of Bom Sforza, queen of 
 Po'and. 
 
 II Moretto di Virgilio, iradotto in verfi volgari 
 fciolti da Alberto Lollio. In Venezia, preiTo 
 il Giolito, 1548, in octavo. 
 Of Lollio I fpoke in another place; 
 
 Ovidio Metamorfi in volgare flampato in Vene- 
 zia, per Zoanne Roffo Vercellefe, 1497, m 
 folio, with cuts. The tranflator is faid to be 
 Giovanni Bonsignore, an author of the thir- 
 teenth century. 
 
 L' Eroidi di Ovidio in Profa. A book in quarto, 
 without year or place, printed for Sifto Rieffin- 
 ger , under whofe name, in a copy that was in 
 the pofieflion of marquis Maffti, there was 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 13$ 
 
 written, in a very old hand, thefe words : Ar~ 
 gentina qui Neapolim artem typographicam ad- 
 vexit. f 
 
 Le Eroidi d' Ovidio, tradotte in Ottava Rima, 
 daMoNTiciELLi. In Brefcia, 149T, in quarto. 
 
 Le Eroidi d* Ovidio, tradotte, in profe, da Carlo 
 Figiovanni. In Venez'n, 1532, in octavo. 
 
 Epiftole del Famofo Ovidio, in Ottava Rima. 
 It appears, by the paper and characters, that 
 this edition was made in the fourteenth century, 
 but the printer, as well as the translator, is un- 
 known. 
 
 Le Metamorfofi d' Ovidio, tradotte, in Ottava 
 Rima, da Giovanandrea dell' Anguillara. S 
 In Venezia, preflb Bernardo Giunti, 1584, in 
 quarto, with fine cuts, reckoned the bed edition. 
 This tranflation has fo much the air of an ori- 
 ginal, the verfes are fo eafy, fo harmonious, 
 that I prefer it to all the tranflations I ever read ; 
 yet there are fome few inelegancies of language. 
 Lodovico Dolce, that laborious Dolce named fo 
 many times in this my library, writ a poem, 
 entjded, Le Trasformaziow ', printed in Vene- 
 zia, preflb ii Giolito, in quarto, in Ottava 
 Rima, which is a free translation of the Afeta- 
 morphqfis, 
 Ovidio de* Rimedi contra 1* Amore, fatto vol- 
 gare, e ridotto, in Ottava Rima, da Angiolo 
 Ingegneri. In,Avignone, preflb Pier Roflp, 
 J 576, in quarto. 
 
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 The learned world is little aware of the great 
 obligation that they have to this Ingegneri, 
 without whom the works of Torquato I'ajfo 
 would have been loft in all probability ; I mean, 
 that Tajfo writ fo bad a hand, that he could not 
 read it himfclf, and was obliged to give his 
 works to Ingegneri, who copied them fair j a 
 thing that no body could do but him. 
 Le Epiftole di Ovidio, tradotte in verfi fciolti da 
 Remigio Fiorentno. In Venezia, preffo il 
 Gio ] ito, 1555, in octavo. 
 This is a tranflation much efteemed. 
 Le Epiftole d' Ovidio, tradotte, in TerzaRima, 
 da Camillo Camilli. In Venezia, preffo il 
 Ciotti, 1587, in duodecimo. 
 This is that poor Camilli, who was beaten by 
 Tvjp; f r his Continuation of the Jerufalem. 
 Le Epiftole d' Oviiio, tradotte, in Terza Rima, 
 da Angelo Rodolfini. In Mac.rata, perGiu- 
 feppe Piccini, 1682, in duodecimo. 
 I Fafti d' Ovidio, da Vincenzo Cartari in verfo 
 
 fciolto. In Venezia, 1551, in octavo. 
 L' Arted' Amare d' Ovidio, in Terza Rima. In 
 Venezia, 1526, in octavo. Tranflator and 
 printer unknown. 
 I Cinque Libri delle Ode di Orazio Flacco dette in 
 Ca. zoni, Sefti e, Ballate, e Madrigali, da 
 Giorgini da Jlsi. In Jefi, preffo Pietro Farri, 
 1595, in duodecimo. 
 
 La Poctica d* Orazio, tradotta da Lodovico 
 Dolce. In Venezia, per Francefco Biondone, 
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 La Poetica d' Orazio, tradotta, in Ottava Rima, 
 da Scipione Ponzo. In Napoli, per Giovan 
 Giacopo Cariino, 16 10, in quarto. 
 
 La Poetica d' Oiazio, tradotta da Lodovico Le- 
 poreo. In Roma, per Francefco Corbelletti, 
 1630, in octavo. 
 
 La Poetica d' Orazio, tradotta da Pandolfo Span- 
 nocchi. In Siena, nella Stamperia del Pub- 
 lico, 1714, in octavo. 
 
 I dilectevoli Sermoni, altrimente Satire, e le mo- 
 rali Epiftole di Orazio infieme con la Poetica, 
 tradotte da Lodovico Dolce, dal Poema La- 
 tino in verfi fciold volgari. In Venezia, preffo 
 il Giolito, 1559, in octavo. 
 
 X)e Satire diGiivenale, tradotte, inTerzaRima, 
 da Giorgio Sommari pa. In Trevigi, 1480, 
 in folio. 
 
 Zeno fays, that V antico volgarrizzamento del 
 Sommaripa non vale gran cofa, the ancient tranjla- 
 tion by Sommaripa is not worth much. 
 
 Parafrafi di Lodovico Dolce del) a Sefta Satira di 
 Giuvenale nella quale fi ragiona delle miferie 
 degli Uomini Ammogliati; con 1' Epicalamio 
 di Catullo nelle Nozze di Peleo e di Teii, tra- 
 dotto in verfo fciolto dal medefimo. In Ve* 
 nezia, per Curz : o Navo, 1538, in octavo. 
 
 Giuvenale e Perfio, fpiegati in verfi volgari ed 
 illuftrati con Annotazioni dal Conte Camillo 
 Silvestri da Rovigo. In Padova, 1711, in 
 quarto. 
 
 The tranflation is indifferent, but the notes are 
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 Le ofcurifiime Satire di Perfio, con la chiariflima 
 Spofizione di Gio. Antonio Vallone. In Na- 
 poli, per Giufeppe Cacchi, 1576, in o&avo. 
 
 Vallone was of Caftel Monardo in Calabria. 
 His expofition is in Italian profe, interfperfed. 
 with fomevcrfcs now Latin now Italian, which 
 are quotations and occafional explanations of 
 feme paffages from the ancients. 
 
 Perfio, tradotto in verfo fciulto e dichiarato da 
 Francefco Stelluti. In Roma, per Jacopo 
 Mafcardi, 1630, in quarto. 
 This is our capital translation of thefe fatires. 
 
 La Tebaide di Stazio, tradotta da Selvaggio Por- 
 pora. In Roma, per Giammaria Salvioni, 
 1630, in folio, 
 
 La Tebaide di Stazio, tradotta, in Ottava Rima, 
 da Erafmo di Valvasone. In Venezia, per 
 Francefco Francefchi, 1470, in quarto. 
 Tnis a very valuable tranflation. 
 
 La Tebaide di Stazio, tradotta, in Ottava Rima, 
 da Giacinto Nini. In Roma, 1630, in oc^ 
 tavo. Printer unknown. 
 
 La Tebaide di Stazio, tradotta in verfi fciolti dal 
 Cardinale Cornelio Bentivgolio. Printed I 
 have forgot where. 
 This is our capital tranflation of this poet. 
 
 Ratto di Proferpina di Claudiano, tradotto da 
 Giovanbattifta Barbo. In Padova, in quarto. 
 Printer and year unknown. 
 
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 jRatto di Proferpina di Claudiano, tradotto in 
 verfo fciolto da Livio Sannuto, In Venezia, 
 j 55 1. Printer unknown, 
 
 Ratto di Proferpina, tradotta, in Ottava Rima, 
 da Gio f Domenico Bevilacqua. In Palermo, 
 per Gianfrancefco Carrera, 1585, in quarto. 
 
 \\ Rapimento di Proferpina di Claudiano, tradotto 
 da Marcantonio Cinuzzi. In Venezia, preflfo 
 i Francefchi, 1608, in quarto. 
 This transition is in the dialect of Siena. 
 
 Opere di Claudiano, tradotte ed arricchite di eru- 
 dite Annotazioni da Nicola Beregani nobile 
 Vene:o. In Venezia, preffb Gio. Gabriello 
 Ertz, 1 716, 2 vol. in octavo, in blank verfe. 
 Zeno fays, that, in this tranflation, Beregani 
 bravamente fojliene il Genio e il Carat tere del 
 Poeta Latino \ thtf is, Keeps up nobly to the 
 genius and character of the Latin -poet. 
 
 Lucano in volgare. Incipit liber Lucani Cordu- 
 benfis poetae clariiTimi editus in vulgari fermo- 
 ne; metrico tamen : per R. patrem et domi- 
 num L. Cardinalem de Montichieilo dignif- 
 fimum. Imprcflus Mediolani per Magiftrum 
 Caflanum de Montegaziis anno falutis noitrffi 
 M.CoCC.LXXXXIL die vii. Septembris, in 
 quarto-, andalfo, Venetiis, per me Manfredum 
 deMonferratodeStrevo,M.CCCC.LXXXXV. 
 die quarta menfis Augufti, in quarto. 
 This work is in Ottava Rima, divided into ten 
 books. Who this author was no body knows. 
 ome are of opinion that he was not a cardinal, 
 
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 but that the name of his family was Cardinale ; 
 and Apoftolo Zeno, in his notes to Fontaninfs 
 Eloquenza fays, that this is no tranflation of 
 Lucan, but a capricious romance, in which the 
 author quotes often Lucan. Yet I do not chufe 
 to leave out of my library fuch a book for the 
 refpectablenefs of its antiquity. 
 Lucano delle Guerre Civili, tradotto in verfo 
 fciolto da Giulio Morici da Ravenna. In 
 Ravenna, per Francefco Tebaldini, 1587, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Lucano delle Guerre Civili, tradotto in verfo 
 fciolto da Paolo Arbiani. In Venezia, per 
 Gio. Battifta Catani, 1668, in octavo. 
 I know nothing of the authors of thefe two 
 tranflations. 
 
 Lucrezio della Natura delle Cofe, tradotto da 
 Aleffmdro Marchettf. In Londra, per 
 Giovanni Piccard, 171 7, in octavo, in blank 
 verfe. A tranflation much praifed, yet the 
 verification, in my opinion, is but indifferent. 
 The editor was Paolo Rolli, the tranflator of 
 MUton into Italian blank verfe. 
 
 Le Tragedie di Seneca, tradotte da Lodovico 
 Dolce. In Venezia, per i Seffa, 1660, in 
 duodecimo. 
 
 "Le Tragedie di Seneca, tradotte da Ettore Nini. 
 In Venezia, per Marco Ginami, 1622, in 
 octavo. 
 
 L' Anfnrione, Commedia di Plauto, tradotto di 
 Latino in volgare da Pandolfo Collenuccio. 
 
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 In Venezia, per Nicolo Zoppino, 1530, in 
 octavo, in Terza Rima. 
 The chronicles of Ferrara inform us, that this 
 tranflation was the firft comedy in verfe that 
 was exhibited on an Italian ftage, having been 
 reprefented in January i486, in Ferrara, by 
 the order of the duke Hercules I. who bid 
 Collenuccio to translate it. 
 L' Anfitrione, Commedia di Plauto, tradotto in 
 Ottava Rima, in octavo, without author, 
 printer, or year. 
 
 Some think this tranflation by Boccacio ; fome 
 by Gbigo Brunelkfcbi, or by Domenico da Prato % 
 who lived in the time of Boccacio, or a little 
 before. 
 L' Armaria, Commedia di Plauto, tradotta di 
 Latino in volgare, in Terza Rima. In Vene- 
 zia, per Bencio da Lecco, 1528, in octavo. 
 Tranflator unknown. 
 La Cafina, Commedia di Plauto, tradotta di La- 
 tino in volgare da Girolamo Bernardo. In 
 Venezia, per Nicolo Zoppino, 1530, in oila^ 
 vo, in Terza Rima. 
 La Muftellaria, Commedia di Plauto. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Nicolo Zoppino, 1530, in octavo, 
 in Terza Rima, without the tranflator's name 5 
 but, I think, it is by the fame Bernardo* as 
 well as the two next, being all three in Terza 
 Rima. 
 II Penolo, Commedia di Plauto, tradotta nella 
 comune Lingua. In Venezia, per Nicolo Zop- 
 pino, 1532, in octavo. I Me-
 
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 I Menecmi, Commedia di Plauto, in Terza Ri- 
 
 ma. la Venezia, per il Zoppino, 1530, iit 
 
 octavo. 
 Le Commedie di Terenzio, in profe. In Vene- 
 
 zia, per Bernardino Vitale, 1533^ in octavo. 
 
 Tranflator unknown. 
 
 Paolo Matiuzio, the famous printer, retouched 
 
 this tranflation, and reprinted it in 1544, in 
 
 octavo,; 
 Le Commedie di Terenzio, tradotte in Lingua 
 
 Tofcana da Criftoforo Rosario da Spoleti, in 
 
 profe. In Roma, per Bartolomeo Zartnetti, 
 
 161 2, in duodecimo. 
 
 Gli Adelfi, Commedia di Terenzio, tra"dotta da 
 Alberto Lollio, in blank verfe. In Vinegh* 
 preffb il Giolito, 1554, in duodecimo. 
 
 L' Andria e 1* Eunuco, Commedie di Terenzio, 
 tradotte da Giovanni Giustiniano da Candia. 
 In Vinegia, per Francefco da Afola, 1554, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Befides the above ancient tranflations of Terence's 
 comedies, which are not bad, there are two 
 modern ones ftill better : the one is by Nico'6 
 Forteguerri, printed in folio, with cuts of 
 the ancient matks, copied from an ancient ma- 
 nufcript exifting in the Vatican library ; the 
 other is by Lovifa Bergalli, whom I men- 
 tioned where I named Gafpara St am pa, printed 
 in Venice, in octavo. I have forgot the year 
 in which thefe tranflations were printed. 
 
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 Iftoria. Hi/lory, 
 
 LA Storia della Guerra di Troja, da Guido 
 delle Colonne Mefiinefe. In Colonia, 
 per Arnoldo Terbone, 1477, in quarto. 
 The tranflator was Filippo Ceffi Fiorentino, tho' 
 fome fay it was tranflated by the author himfelf. 
 Reprinted in Florence, 16 10, in quarto, rive- 
 duta e rifcontrata per Bafiian de Rossi. 
 
 Breve Defcrizione del Mondo di Zacheria Lilio 
 Vicentino, tradotta da Francefco Bandelli, 
 con 1' Addizione de' Nomi moderni. In Ve- 
 nezia, prefib il Giolito, 1552, in octavo. 
 Lilio, of Vicenza, obtained to be made titular 
 bifliop of Sebafte in Armenia for his great learn- 
 ing and piety. His tranflator was of Cor- 
 tona, and one of the many grammarians that 
 afiifted Giolito in the printing of his book?. 
 
 Gli Coftumi, le Leggi, e le Ufanze di tutte le 
 Genti, raccolte da Giovanni Boetno Aubano 
 Alemanno, tradotti per il Fauno, in 3 Libri. 
 The Manners, Laws, and Cufioms, collected, 
 &c. In Venezh,- per il Tramezzino, 1543, in 
 oflavo. 
 
 Iftoria delle quattro Citta principali del Mondo 
 cioe Gerufalemme, Roma, Napoli, e Venezia, 
 con tin Sommario Iftorico delle Indie ed anche 
 le Tavole aftronomiche, da Michele Zappulo. 
 In Vicenza, 1603, in quarto. 
 
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 Le Croniche di Fra Filippo da Bergamo, volga* 
 rizzate per Francefco C. In Firenze, 1491, 
 in folio. 
 
 Supplemento alle Croniche di Fi'ippo da Bergamo, 
 con T Addizione di Bernardo Bindoni. In 
 Venezia, 1540, in folio. 
 The two above books are very fcarce and va- 
 luable. 
 
 Acquila Volante di Leonardo Aretino, fcritta 
 in Latino e da Lui poi tradotta in Italiano Libri 
 4. In Napoli, per Agolfo de Canthono, 1592, 
 in folio ; and in Venezia, per Meichior SefTa, 
 1543, in octavo, with the addition of a fifth 
 book. 
 
 It is faid of this Aretino, who was a great fcho- 
 ]ar, that he found a work of Tutty, entitled, 
 De Gloria, made ufe of it in fome of his Latin 
 works, and then deftroyed it. 
 
 Dionigi da Fano, Iftorie del Mondo dal fuo 
 principio fino al 1606. In Venezia, 1653, 2 
 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Aleflandro Zilioli, Iftorie de* fuoi Tempi, from 
 the year 1600 to 1636. In Venezia, 1642, 
 3 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Majolino Bisaccioni, Continuazione dell' Iftoire 
 de* fuoi Tempi del Zilioli, to the year 1650. 
 In Venezia, 1652, in quarto. 
 Both Zilioli and his Continuator writ an indiffe- 
 rent (tile, but are thought veracious. 
 Francefco Bianchini, Iftoria univerfale provata 
 con Monumenti, e figurata co' Simboli degli 
 
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 Antichi. In Roma, 1697, in quarto. A 
 book full of Erudition. 
 
 ftlorie del fuo Tempo di Paolo Giovio, tradotte 
 da Lodovico Domenichi col fupplemento di 
 Girolamo Rufcelli. In Venezia, per Giam- 
 maria Bonelli, 1550, 2 vol. in quarto; and 
 in Fiorenza, per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1540, 
 3 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Giovio is famous for his many Latin writings, 1 
 efpecially his hiilories. He was alio a good 
 Italian writer. This hiftory of his own rime, 
 which at firft confided of forty-five books, is 
 now reduced to thirty-three, becaufe Giovio loft 
 fix of them in the horrible fack of Rome, 
 that happened in his time-, and the other fix he 
 would not publifh, becaufe, on revifing his 
 own work, he thought that it contained things 
 which could not be remembered by a true Ita- 
 lian without grief and fliame. The Italians of 
 that age having behaved fo vilely in war, that 
 Italy was more ruined by their infamous doing.% 
 than by the furiojs attacks and ravagings of 
 the French and Germans. Domenichi, having 
 been delivered from the prifons of the Inquifi- 
 tion at the prayer of Giovio, fat about tranfla- 
 tingi out of gratuude, the hiftories of his de- 
 liverer, and did ic with fuch elegance, thac 
 Giovio, in a letter to him, has thefe words : 
 Conofco chiaramente che h vojire belle traduzioni 
 far anno dejiderate per la Lingua in Lalia piu del 
 mio Latino 1 il quale afpttera U lodi fue da altre 
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 pm rimote e Jirane nazioni j that is, I perceive 
 that your beautiful tranjlations, for the fake of 
 your Italian ftile, will have the preference in Italy 
 to my Latin, which mujl expecl t its praifesfrom 
 foreign and remote nations, 
 
 Trattato di Lorenzo Valla, dove fi tratta della 
 Donazione che volgarmente fi dice effer fatta 
 da Coftantino Magno a Papa Silveftro, 1546, 
 in quarro. Printer and place unknown. 
 Some pretend to prove by the ftile, that this 
 book was not writ by (o great a man as Law 
 rentius Valla was. 
 
 Defcrizione di tutta 1' Italia di Fra Leandro Al- 
 bert 1 Bolognefe. In Bologna, per Anfelmo 
 Ciccarelli, 1550, in quarto. 
 This book would be ufeful, if fome fabulous 
 accounts were expunged from it. 
 
 II Regno d' Italia fotto i Barbari. Epitome di D. 
 Emanuel Tesauro con le Annocazioni di Va- 
 lerio Caftrglione. In Torino, 1664, in folio, 
 with cuts. 
 
 This ^efauro was, perhaps, the moft learned 
 man of his time in Italy j but his ftile is fo bad, 
 that his numerous works are fcarcely read, 
 though they contain a multitude of fine things. 
 He was of Turin, and a knight of the order 
 of St. Maurice and Lazar. 
 
 Tom a so d' Acquileja, delle guerre d' Attila. 
 In Ferrara, 1664, in quarto. 
 Under this feigned name John Baptifi Pigna 
 concealed himfeif, 
 
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 Itinerario, ovvero Defcrizione de' Viaggi princw 
 pali d' Italia di Francefco Scoto, with cuts. 
 In Padova, 1654, in octavo* 
 A very curious book this is. 
 
 Girolamo BrianIj Iftoria d' Italia* In Venezia* 
 1624, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Gabriello Simeoni* commentari di Venezia, Mi- 
 lano, Mantova, e Ferrara. In Venezia, per 
 Comin da TrinOj 1546, in octavo. 
 This Simeoni was a poer, and one of the many 
 learned Italians that were called to France by 
 Francis I. when that monarch thought of in- 
 troducing fciences and arts in his kingdom. 
 
 Luca Assarini, Guerre d' Italia dall' anno 1513 
 finoali6^o. In Torino, 1665, in folio. 
 This AJfarini writ very many books ; but I re- 
 gifter him here, that the Englifli reader may 
 know he was one of the worft writers, as to 
 language, that ever Italy produced. 
 
 Difcorfi fopra 1' Antichita di Roma, di Vincenzo 
 Scamozzi Architetto Vicentino, with valuable 
 cuts. In Venezia, per Francefco Ziletti, 1582, 
 in folio. 
 
 Scamozzi was the moft renowned of the dif- 
 ciples of Palladio. My father, who was ar- 
 chitect to Victor Amedeus, father of the pre- 
 fent king of Sardinia, whipped me fo many 
 times, when I was a boy, for neglecting Sca- 
 mozzi and Palladio for Ariofto and Taflb, that 
 I have no heart to fay any thing in praife of the 
 famed Italian profefTors of the art, which I 
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 curfed fo many times in my earlieft years. 
 Thank my ftars, that, in fpight of Scamozzi y 
 I am rather a poet than an architect. 
 
 Oflfervazioni fopra i Cimiteri de' Martiri ed an- 
 tichi Criftiani, with cuts. In Roma, 17 19, 
 in folio. 
 
 Delle Antichita di Roma, di Lueio Mauro. In 
 Venezia, 1556, in octavo. 
 
 Opera di Andrea Fulvio delle Antichita di Roma 
 e degli Edifici memorabili di quella, tradotto 
 dal Latino in Lingua Tofcana, per Paolo del 
 Rosso Cittadino Fiorentino. In Venezia, per 
 il Tramezzino, 1543, in oftavo j and with 
 additions, by Girolamo Ferrucci. In Ve- 
 nezia, 1588, in octavo. 
 It would beendlefs to enumerate all the Italian 
 writers on the antiquities of Rome. 
 
 Storie Ferrarefi, di Gafparo Sardi. In Ferrara, 
 1559, in quarto, with additions by the fame 
 author, and by Agoftino Faustini. la 
 Ferrara, 1646, in quarto, in 4 vol. and Gi- 
 rolamo Barruffaldi, a poet (Till living when 
 I left Italy, continued the fame hiftory, bring- 
 ing it to the year 1 700. In Ferrara, 1 700, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Francefco Berni, memorie degli Eroi della Cafa 
 d* Efte che ebbero Dominio in Ferrara. In 
 Ferrara, per il Suzzi, 1640, in folio. 
 This was not Berni the poet. 
 
 Giambattifta Giraldi, Commentario delle Cofc 
 di Ferrara, tradottp di Latino in Volgare da 
 
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 Lodovico Domenjchi; In Firenze, per il 
 
 Torrentino, 1556, in odtavo. 
 Storia di Commacchio, di Gianfraneefco Ferro. 
 
 In Ferrara, 1701, in quarto. 
 Cefare Brissio, Relazione dell' antica e nobile 
 
 Citta di Cefena, In Ferrara, 1598, in quarto- 
 Gregorio Zuccolo, Cronica di Faenza dal 700 
 
 al 1236. In Bologna, 1575, in octavo. 
 Giulio Cefare Tonduzzi, Storie di Faenza. In 
 
 Ferrara, 1675. in folio. 
 
 Defiderio Spreti, della Grandezza, rovina, e 
 riftoramento della Citta di Ravenna. In Pe- 
 faro, 1574, in quarto. 
 
 Cefare Clementimi, racconto iflorico dalla Fon^ 
 dazione di Rimino. In Rimino, per lo Sim- 
 beni, 1626 and 1627, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Matteo Valli, Relazione dell' Origine e Gover- 
 no della Republica di S. Marino. In Padova, 
 160 8, in quarto. 
 
 Storia dello Stato d' Urbino, da' Senno i detto 
 Umbria Sennonia, da Fra Vincenzo Maria Ci^ 
 marelli. In Brefcia, 1642, in quarto. 
 
 Memorielftoricheconcernenti la Devoluzione dello 
 Stato d* Urbino alia Sede Apoftolica. In Fi- 
 renze, 1723. Author and printer unknown. 
 
 Pietro Nigrosanti, Origine e Storie di Fano, 
 In Venezia, 1940, in quarto. 
 
 Giuliano Saracini, Notizie Iftoriche della Cit a 
 
 d' Ancona gia termine dell* antico Regno d* 
 
 Italia, con diverfi avvenimenti nella Marca d' 
 
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 Ancona ed in detto Regno accaduti. In Roma, 
 1675, in folio. 
 Notizie dell' antica Cluna, oggi Sant* Elpidio, 
 raccolte da Andrea Bacci. In Macerata, per 
 ilPanelli, 1716, in quarto. 
 
 Pietro Grizio, riftretto delle Storie di Jefi. In 
 Macerata, 1578, in quarto. 
 
 FrancefcoBRiccHi, Annali di Cagli. InUrbino, 
 1 541, in quarto. 
 
 Orazio Avicenna, Memorie della Citta di Cin- 
 goli. In Jefi, 1644, in quarto. 
 
 Gio. Francefco Angeuta, Origine e Storia delta 
 Citta di Recanati. In Mefiina, per il Maffei, 
 1 71 1, in folio. 
 
 Luigi Martorelli, Memorie Iftoriche della 
 Citta d' Ofimo. In Venezia, per il Poleti, 
 1705, in quarto. 
 
 Camillo Lilli, Storie di Camerino, parte due. 
 In Venezia, in quarto. 
 
 Paulo Bonoli, Iftoria di Forli. In Forli, 1661, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Federico Giacobilli, Difcorfo della Citta di Fo- 
 
 Jigno. In Perugia, 1618, in quarto; 
 Pietro Farulli, Annali e Memorie dell' antica 
 
 e nobil Citta di Santo Sepolcro. Jn Foligno, 
 
 1 7 13, in quarto, 
 Filippo Antqnino, Difcorfi dell' Antichita di 
 
 Sarzina, e de' Coftumi Rpmani. In Sarzina, 
 
 j 60 7, in quarto, 
 
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 Felice Pantaleoni, Origine e Antichita della 
 Citta. d' Afcoli. In Roma, 167 1, in duodecimo. 
 
 Felice Ciatti, Memorie delle cofe di Perugia. 
 In Perugia, per il Bartoli, 1638, in quarto, 
 the firft volume only. 
 
 Che Properzio (the Latin poet Proper Uus) fia 
 Stato di Perugia. In Perugia, 1628, inquaro. 
 
 Delia Statua di Bronzo gia nel Territorio di Pe. 
 rugia ritrovata, e poi pofta nella Galleria del 
 Gran Duca di Tofcana. On the brafs Statue 
 found in the 'Territory of Perugia, and placed in 
 the Gallery of the Grand Duke of Tufcany- In 
 Perugia, 1631, in quarto. 
 
 Pompeo Pellini, Storie di Perugia. In Vene- 
 zia, 1664, in quarto, divided in three parts, 
 but the laft is fcarce to be found, having been 
 almoft all defiroyed, as foon as printed, at the 
 petition of the Nobility of Perugia, many of 
 whom thought themfelves injured by it. 
 
 Faufto Donnola, Storia di Spello. In Foligno, 
 1 62 1, in quarto. 
 
 Monaldo Monaldeschi, Commentari Storici. 
 In Venezia, 1584, in quarto. 
 A rare book, but fabulous. 
 
 Ciprian Manente da Orvieto, Storie della Citta 
 d* Orvieto. Tom. I. from the year 970 to 
 1400; torn. II. to the year 1663. In Vene- 
 zia, per il Giolito, 1561 and 1566, in quarto. 
 
 Giambattifta Possevino, Vite de' Santi di Todi, 
 nelle quali fi fopre 1' Antichita e Grandezza di 
 detta Citta. In Perugia, 1597, in quarto- 
 
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 Matteo Veccaiazzani, Storia di Forlimpopoli. 
 InRimino, 1648, in 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Teodoro Valle, la regia ed antica Piperno. In 
 
 Napoli, 1646, in quarto. 
 Bernardino Cam pelli, delle Iftorie di Spokti, 
 
 In Spoleti, per Giandomenico Ricci, 1672, in 
 
 quarto. The firft part only. 
 
 L' Antico Vejo, di Famiano Nardini. In Ro- 
 ma, per il Mafcardi, 1647, in quarto. 
 
 Bcnaventura Theuli, Teatro Iftorico di Velletri, 
 Capo de Volfci. In Velletri, 1644, in quarto. 
 
 Felice Cantelori, Memorie Iuoriche della Ter- 
 ra di Cefi. In Roma, 1685, in octavo. 
 
 Iftoria della Citta. d* Avignone, e Contado Veno- 
 fino, per Sebaftian Fantoni. In Venezia, per 
 1' Ertz, 1678, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Pompeo Sarnelli, Memorie Cronologiche de' 
 Vefcovi ed Arcivefcovi di Benevento, con la 
 Serie de' Duchi e Principi Longobardi nella 
 flefla Citta. In Napoli, 1691, in quarto. 
 
 Antonio Contatore, delle Storie Terracinefi. 
 In Roma, 1606, in quarto. 
 
 Memorie Iftoriche dell' Antico Tufcoli, oggi 
 Frafcati, di Pompeo Compagnoni. In Roma, 
 per il Buagni, 171 1, in quano. 
 
 tatuta Venetorum Latine et Italice. In Vene- 
 zia, perDionyfium Bertochum, i4Q2,infolio. 
 A book fcarce to be found. 
 
 Jftoria Veneziana, di Marcantonio Sabellico, Li- 
 bri 33, to the year J490. In Venezia, 1668, 
 
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 in quarto, translated from the Latin. The fame, 
 tranflated by Matteo Visconte. In Venezia, 
 in folio. 
 
 There is a tranflation of Sabeltico's hiftory, 
 printed under the name of Lodovico Dolce, in 
 1545, in quarto, which is not by Dolce, as he 
 tells in a letter printed at the end of the trans- 
 lation of the life of Apllonius Tianeus, by 
 Francefco Baldelli. Sabellicus is one of our mod 
 celebrated writers of hiftory in Latin; yet he 
 wants correction in the relation of many facts. 
 
 Jftoria Veneziana, di Paolo Paruta, from the 
 year 1513101573. In Venezia, per Dome- 
 nico Nicolini, 1605, in quarto. 
 Apftoh Zeno writ the life of this hiftorian, and 
 printed it in Venezia, per Lovifa, 171 8. 
 
 Pietro Garzoni, Storia della Republica di Ve- 
 nezia. In Venezia, 1705, in quarto. 
 
 Nicolo Doglioni, Storia Veneta dalla prima 
 Fondazione fino al 1597. In Venezia, 1598, 
 in quarto. 
 This hiftory bears no great character. 
 
 Paolo Morosini, Storia della Citta e Republica 
 di Venezia, to the year 1485. In Venezia, 
 1637, in quarto. 
 
 The author, who was a nobleman of Venice, 
 was banifhed his country for a vifit he paid to 
 cardinal Salviali, an enemy to the Venetians, 
 His hiftory is much valued, and he is befides 
 much to be praifed for preferving the wri- 
 tings 
 
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 tings of Andrea Morofini his brother, which he 
 corrected and publifhed. 
 
 Giarnbatcifta Contarini, Storia Vencta. In Ve- 
 nezia, 1663, 2 torn, in quarto. 
 There are no lefs than ten authors of this noble 
 Venetian family of the Contarini ; almoft all 
 above mediocrity. 
 
 Aleflandro Maria Via noli, Storia Veneta: la 
 Venezia, 1680, 1684, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Paolo Ramusio, della Guerra Coftantinopolitana, 
 
 tradotta da Girolamo Ramufio figlio di Paolo. 
 
 In Venezia, 1628, in quarto. 
 
 This hiftory was originally written in Latin by 
 
 Paolo, and translated into Italian by his fon 
 
 Girolamo Ramufio. Both the Latin and the 
 
 Italian are elegant. 
 Andrea Mocenigo, Guerra di Cambrai; In 
 
 Venezia, 1560, in octavo, from the year 1500 
 
 to 1517. 
 
 This author is more recommendable for truth 
 
 than for elegance. 
 
 Iftoria della Venuta a Venezia di Papa Aleflandro 
 III. di Gio. Francefco Olmo. In Venezia, 
 1629, in quarto. 
 
 This hulory has for the greater part the air of 
 a fable. 
 
 Biagio Rith, Commentario delle Guerre pafTate 
 nel Friuli, e ne' confini deli* Iftria e di Dal- 
 mazia. In Triefte, 1629, in quarto. 
 An ill-written book, but full of curious tranf- 
 actions, and the only Italian one that gives us 
 
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 a tolerable account of the Dalmatians fo little 
 known throughout Europe. 
 
 pietro Contarini, lftoria Veneta, In Venezia, 
 1572, in quarto, 
 A hiftory of reputation. 
 
 Andrea Valerio, lftoria della Guerra di Candia 
 In Venezia, 1 66g, in quarto. 
 No bad book. 
 Francefco Sansovino, Venezia defcritta in 14 
 Libri. In Venezia, 1663, in quarto. 
 This is the beft edition, becaufe of the addi- 
 tions, The hiftory is of reputation. 
 Fra Paolo, Scoria Particolare delle Cofe paflate 
 fra il fommo Pontefice Paolo V. e la Repub- 
 lica di Venezia. In Mirandola, 1624, in 
 quarto. 
 
 It is pity this book is not writ with a better ftile.' 
 Elia Cavriolo, Storia di Brefcia volgarizzata da 
 Patrizio Spina: In Brefcia, per Marchetti, 
 1585, in quarto. 
 Gio. Candido, Commentario delle Cofe d' Ac- 
 quileja. In Venezia, 1544, in octavo. Trans- 
 lated from the Latin. 
 Mauro Orbini, II Regno degli Slavi, oggi cor- 
 rottamente detti Schiavoni, dalla Origine loro 
 fino all* anno 1370. In Pefaro, 1601, in folio. 
 A moft valuable book. 
 Minuccio Minucci, Storia degli Ufcocchi. In 
 
 Venezia, 161 6, in quarto. 
 Andrea Marmora, Storia di Corfu. In Ve- 
 nezia, preflb Stefano Curti, 1672, in quarto. 
 
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 Marmora was a very learned man. 
 
 Copiofo riflretto degli Annali di Raufa, di Gia- 
 como di Pietro Lucari Gentiluomo Raufeo. 
 In Venezia, 1605, in quarto. 
 This is the beft account we have in Italian of 
 that little commonwealth, though the next is 
 not defpicable: 
 
 La Storia di Raugia di Serafino Razzi. In Lucca, 
 per il Bu fdrago, in quarto. 
 
 Le due deche dell* Iftoria di Sicilia di Tomafo Fa- 
 zelo Siciliano divife in 20 Libri, tradotte dal 
 Latino per Remigio Fiorentino. In Venezia, 
 periGuerra, 1574, in octavo; and in Paler- 
 mo, 1628, in folio, with additions by Martino 
 Lafarina. A very curious and valuable book. 
 
 Giufeppe Coftanzo Buonfiglio, Storia Siciliana. 
 In Venezia, per il Ciera, 1604, 2 vol. in 
 quarto. 
 
 Filadelfo Mugnos, Ragguagli Storici del Vefpro 
 Siciliano. In Palermo, 1645, in quarto. 
 
 Giovanni Villant, Antica Cronica del Regno di 
 Sicilia, in black letter, and without date. 
 This Villani is not to be miftaken for that who 
 writ the hiftory of Florence. 
 
 Agoftino Inveges, Annali di Palermo, 3 vol. in 
 
 folio, printed in Palermo. The firft vol. is 
 
 entitled, Palermo Antico, 1649; the fecond, 
 
 Palermo Sacro, 1 650 -, the third, Palermo No. 
 
 hile 9 1651, with cuts. 
 
 A very fcarce book, and full of erudition and 
 
 curious things, but quite inelegant. 
 
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 Agoftino t>ELLA Chiesaj Corona Reale di Sa- 
 voja. In Cuneo, 1655, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 This book contains a defcription of the pro- 
 vinces under the dominion of the (then) Duke 
 of Savoy. 
 
 Lodovico della Chiesa, Origine della Serenif- 
 fima Cafa di Savoja. In Torino, 1608, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Lodovico della Chiesa, Compendio delleSto^ 
 rie del Piemonte, 1608, in quarto. 
 Both Agoftino and Lodovico Chiefa were in- 
 elegant writers, but knew well the things they 
 writ about. 
 
 Emanuel Tesauro, Storia di Torino. In Torino, 
 1679, 2 vol. in folio. 
 
 The ftile of this hiftory is the worft thing we 
 have in the language, but there is immenfe 
 erudition in this hiftory, and the author had 
 the archives of his matter Emanuel Duke of 
 Savoy thrown open to him. 
 
 lltoria Fiorentina del Poggio trafportata dal La- 
 tino in Italiano da Jacopo Poggio fuo FigUuolo. 
 ImpreiTa in Venezia, per Jacopo diRofli, 1476", 
 in folio. 
 
 The Latin original was never printed till the 
 year 1715, in quarto, with notes by Giambat~ 
 tifta Recanati ; and the Italian tranflation is 
 excellent. 
 
 lltoria Fiorentina di Lionardo Aretino. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Jacopo Roffi, 1456, in folio; and 
 in Fiorenza, per Bartolomeo P. 1492. 
 
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 The Florentines were fb pleafed with this hi- 
 ftory, that they put a crown of laurel upon 
 the head of this author after his death, and bu- 
 ried him With it, and With a copy of his book 
 on his bofom. 
 
 Storia Fiorentina di Benedetto VarcHI, from the 
 year 1440 to 1538. In Colonia, preflo PietrO 
 Martello, 1721, in folio ; and in Leiden, 1723, 
 in folio. 
 
 The dates of this hiftory are falfe, both edi- 
 tions were made in Italy. Varcbfs ftile, as I 
 have faid in another place, is pure and elegant, 
 though a little too much elaborated. 
 
 Francefco Abela, Malta illuftrata. In Malta^ 
 1647, in folio, with cuts. 
 A fcarce and curious book. 
 
 Iftoria della Sacra Religione e Milizia di S. Gio- 
 vanni Gerofolimitano, di Giacomo Bosio. In 
 Roma and Napoli, 1594, 1621, 1638, 3 vol. 
 in folio. 
 
 Bofio was of Cherafque in Piemont, knight and 
 hiftoriographer of the Jerofolimitan order. 
 
 Croniche di Francia e Cronica di S. Dionigio. In 
 Parigi, per Pafquier Bonhomme, 1475* 3 vol* 
 in folio. Author unknown, and a book very 
 fcarce. 
 
 Memorie recondite di Vittorio Sir i, from the year 
 1 60 1 to 1640. Tom. 1 and 2, in Ronco, 
 1677 ; torn. 3 and 4, in Parigi, per Sebaftiano 
 Mabre Cramoify, 1677 5 torn, 5, 6, 7, and 8 t 
 
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 in Lione, preffo Annifon e Pofuel, 1679, a ^ 
 in quarto. >x 
 
 This is as valuable a hiftory as any in Italian," 
 though the ftile and language of the author are 
 but indifferent, and it is very difficult to find 
 all the volumes. None of our hiftorians comes 
 up to Sirfs reputation, in point of veracity. 
 II Mercuric, ovvero Iftoria de 9 Correnti Tempi, 
 by the fame Siri. Tom. 1, in Cafale, per 
 Criftoforo della Cafa, 1647; torn. 2, there 
 by the fame, 1648 ; torn. 3, in Lione, preffo 
 Gio. Antonio Hugueran e Marcantonio Ra 
 vaud, 1652; torn. 4 and 5, in Cafale, per 
 Giorgio del Monte, 1655; torn 6, 7, 8, and 
 9, in Cafale, by the fame, 1667; torn. 10, 
 there by the fame, 1668 ; torn. 11, in Parigi, 
 per Andrea Cramoify, 1670 ; torn. 12, in Pa- 
 rigi, per Sebaltiano Mabre Cramoify alle dus 
 Cicogne, 1672 ; torn. 15, there by the fame, 
 1674; torn. 14 and 15, in Firenze, per Ipo- 
 lito della Nave, 1682 -, thefe two laft volumes 
 are more difficult to be found than all the reft. 
 All the volumes are in quarto. 
 
 Jftoria di Pietro Bizari, delle Guerre d* Unghe- 
 ria, from the year 1564 to 1568. In Lionr, 
 per il Rovilio, 1569, in octavo. 
 
 Olao Magno, Iftoria delle Cofe Settentrionali, tra- 
 dotta da Re mi gio Fiorentino. In Venezia, 
 1565, in folio. 
 
 As Remigio Fiorentino is ne of my favourite 
 writers for ftile, fo I never leave out his name 
 
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 when it comes in my way , yet, in this tranfla- 
 tion, he was a little inaccurate. 
 
 Delia Guerra di Fiandra defcritta dal Cardinal 
 Bentivoglio. In Parigi, nella Stampeiia 
 Reale, 1 645, in folio. 
 
 Relazioni del Cardinal Bentivoglio in Tempo 
 delle fue Nunciature di Fiandra e di Francia, 
 In Anverfa, per Giovanni Meerbecio, 1629, 
 in folio. 
 
 Memorie, ovvero Diario del Cardinal Benti- 
 voglio. In Amfterdam, preffo Giovanni 
 Janfonio, 1648, in octavo. 
 
 This cardinal, whofe name was Guido, was one 
 of the greateft writers we ever had, and few 
 jftatefmen equalled him in prudence. But tho* 
 his ftile is generally good, yet he could not 
 help a witlefs pun from time to time. There is 
 an edition of this Cardinal's works made in 
 Paris, per Giovanni Joft, 1648, in folio. We 
 had another cardinal of the fame family, whofe 
 name was Cornelio, who writ better than Guido s 
 but few things of his were printed. 
 
 Gianfrancefco Biondi, Storia delle Guerre Civili 
 d' Inghikerra tra le due Cafe di Lancaftro e di 
 York dopo 1' anno 1377, fmo al 1509. In 
 Venezia, 3 vol. in quarto. 
 Biondi writ his hiftory while he was in England, 
 and had a penfion from James 1. of 700 crowns 
 a year , but having extolled too much the power 
 of the king, was obliged to quit the country. 
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 He was of Lefma, art ifland of Dalmatia, and 
 boafted his defcent from the ancient kings of 
 Illiricum. Henry Wotton^ ambaflador from 
 England to Venice, made a protectant of him ; 
 and he came to England with the famous Mm- 
 cantonio de Dowinis. 
 
 Lo Scifma d* Inghilterra, con altre Operette di 
 Bernardo Davanzati. In Firenze, nella 
 nuova Stamperia de' MalTi e Landi, 1638, in 
 quarto; 
 
 This Davanzati is the moft laconick writer in 
 our language, and very elegant. 
 
 Commentario delle Cofe de* Turchi di Paolo Gio- 
 vio ed Andrea Cambini, con i fatti e Vita di 
 Scanderbeg. In Venezia, per Aldo, 1 541, in 
 odtavo. 
 A valuable and fcarce book. 
 
 Cronica dell* Origine e Progrefii degli Ottoman!, 
 compofta da Saladino in Lingua Turca, e tra- 
 dotta in Italiano da Vincenzo Bratutti. In 
 Vienna, 1649, in quarto. 
 A book rarely to be found. 
 
 Giovanni Sagredo, Memorie Iftoriche de' Mo- 
 
 narchi Otcomani. In Venezia, 1677, in quarto. 
 
 This is a book much efteemed. 
 Relazione della Colchide, oggi detta Mengrelia 
 
 da Arcangelo Lamberti. In Napoli, 1654, 
 
 in quarto. 
 
 amhrti writ his book in Mengrelia. He was 
 a great traveller. 
 
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 Iftoria Univerfale dell* Origine, Guerre, ed Im- 
 perio de' Turchi, faccoke da Francefco San- 
 sovino* ed accrefciute dal Conte Majolino Bi- 
 SACCfONi. In Venezia, per Sebaftiano Combi, 
 1654, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 This is our capital hiftory of the Turks. 
 
 L* Alcorano di Maometto, tradotto dall* Arabo, 
 1547, in quarto. 
 Criticksfay it is not a faithful tranftation. 
 
 Iftoria della Guerra Sacra di Gerufalemme per 
 Guglielmo Arcivefcovo di Tiro, tradotta da 
 GiufeppeOROLOGGi. In Venezia, preflb Giu- 
 feppe Valgrifio, 1562, in quarto. 
 This book is much valued. 
 
 Iftorie di Fernando Colombo, nelle quali fi ha 
 particolar relazione delle Vita e fatti di Crifto- 
 foro Colombo fuo Padre, e de' Scoprimenti 
 che fece nell' Indie Orientali, tradotte dallo 
 Spagnuolo da Alfonfo Ulloa. In Venezia, 
 1 57 1, in octavo. 
 
 Le Stone dell' Indie Orientali del P. Gio. Pietro 
 Maffei, tranflated from the Latin. In Fi- 
 renze, per Filippo Giunxi, 1589, in quarto. 
 
 Iftoria delle Guerre del Regno del Brafile accadute 
 tra la Corona di Spagna e la Republica d' Ol- 
 landa, compofte da Fra Giangiufeppe di S. 
 Teresa. In Roma, 1698, 2 vol. in folio. 
 
 Antonio de Solis, della Conquifta del Meffico. 
 Well tranflated from the Spanilh, and printed 
 many times. 
 
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 L* Iftoria di Italia, di Francefco Guicciardini, 
 Gentiluomo Fiorentino. In Fiorenza, per Lo- 
 renzo Torrent i no, 1561, in folio. 
 This is the firft and beft edition, becaufe printed 
 from the author's manufcript, fti 11 prefer ved in 
 the Medicean Library at Florence ; but as this 
 edition contains only 16 books, therefore many 
 give the preference to that of Venezia, per 
 Gabrielio Giolito, 1569, in quarto, which 
 contains 4 books more, and has befides fhort 
 notes in the margin. The editors of the firft 
 edition did not thoroughly conform to the ma- 
 nufcript, and thofe of the fubfequent ones did 
 not conform to the firft* Such is the fate, fays 
 Apoftolo Zeno> of thofe hiftories that are printed 
 after their authors' death, and treat of things 
 that lately happened. The late lord Bolingbroke 
 preferred Guicciardini to Thucy Aides ; I fjppofe 
 for Angularity's fake ; for Guicciardini is too 
 prolix a writer, and his ftile is too much em- 
 baraffwd. See the life of this author prefixed to 
 the EngUfh tranflation, which is more pleafing 
 to read than the original itfelf. 
 
 Dell' Iftoria de' fuoi Tempi di Giambattifta A- 
 drianj, Gentiluomo Fiorentino. The Hiflory 
 of bis own Times, by &c. that is, from 1536" 
 to 1574. In Firenze, nella Stamperia de' 
 Giunti, 1583, in folio; and in Venezia, per 
 i Giunti, 1587, 3 vol. in quarto. ! 
 This author, not generally known, is praifed 
 by Thuanus and Bayle. 
 
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 U Iftoria delle Guerre Civili di Francia di Enrico 
 Caterino Davila, from 1547 to 1598, ag- 
 giuntovi il Rkratto e la Vita del Davila, (written 
 by Apoftolo Zeno) e le Annotazioni di Giovanni 
 Balduino. In Venezia, per Francefco Hert- 
 zaufer, 1733, 2 vol. in folio. 
 This, in my opinion, is the beft edition. A 
 good one is alfo that lately publifhed here in 
 London by Payne, &c. 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Dell' Iftoria Viniziana di Pietro BEMBoCardinale, 
 volgarmente fcritta, from 1487 to 1513. In 
 Vinegia, per Gualtero Scotto, 1552, in quarto. 
 Bembo writ his hiftory in Latin, then, at the 
 defire of Ifabetta >uirini, a Venetian lady of 
 great wit and beauty, tranflated it himielf in 
 very elegant Italian. That lady's life was 
 written by Francefco Sanfovino, and printed in 
 Venezia, da' Fratelli Guerra, 1565, in octavo. 
 
 L* Iftoria d'Europa, di PierfrancefcoGiAMBUL- 
 lari Gentiluomo e Accademico Fiorentino. 
 dair anno 800, lino al 913, di noftra falute. 
 In Venezia, per Franceico Sanefe, 1566, in 
 quarto. 
 
 ; , L' Iftoria del Mondo di Giovanni Tarcagnota 
 dal principio al 1513. In Venezia, per Mi- 
 chele Tramezzino, 1562, 3 vol. in quarto. 
 This is one of the moil efteemed hiftories we 
 have in our language. The author was a de- 
 fendant of th% Paleologui, emperors of Con- 
 ftantinople. See the 20th book of the fecond 
 part of his hiftory. 
 
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 Commentari di Lodovico Guicciardini dellc 
 Cofe d* Europo dal 1529 al 1560. In An- 
 verfa, per Guglielmo Silvio, 1565, in quarto. 
 
 Defcrizione di tutti i Paefi Bafli altrimenti detti 
 Germania Inferiore, di Lodovico Guicciar- 
 dini. In Anverfa, appreilb Criftoforo Plan- 
 tino, 1588, in folio. 
 
 This Guicciardini was nephew to the famous 
 Francefco, named above. Although he is nos 
 fo univerfally known as his uncle, yet he writ 
 with purity little inferior to his. 
 
 Commentari delle Guerre di Tranfilvania, di Af- 
 canio Centorio degli Ortenfi. In Vinegia, 
 preflb il Giolito, 1565, 2 vol. in quarto. But 
 the fccond vol. is entitled, Commentari delle 
 Cofe di Europa libri 8, and was printed four 
 years after. 
 
 Of this Centorio, who was a nobleman of Rome, 
 and not of Milan, as fome of our writers have 
 affirmed, we have a great deal of tolerable 
 poetry printed. I do not know by what crime 
 or misfortune he was banilhed his country, and 
 put for a while to live with his pen, which was 
 pretty elegant ; at laft he went into Ger- 
 many, and acquired the reputation of a valiant 
 foldier. He was an eye-witnefs of the greateft 
 part of the things advanced in his Com' 
 mentaries. 
 
 Commentari di Antonfrancefco Cirni di Corfica, 
 
 dell' ultima Guerra di Francia, della Celebra- 
 
 zione del Concilio di Trento, del Soccorfo d* 
 
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 Orano, dell' imprefa del Pignore, e dell' A 
 fedio di Malta. In Roma, per Giuliq Accolto, 
 1567, in quarto. 
 
 Cirni, as well as Centorio, was a brave foldier, 
 and faw great part of the things he defcribes in 
 his hiftory. 
 Dell' Iftoriadi Piergiovanni Capriat a, libri 12, 
 dal 16 1 3 al 1634. In Geneva, preffo Pier- 
 giovanni Calenzano, 1638, in quarto. Parte 
 prima. 
 Pane feconda, libri 6, dal 1634 al 1644. In 
 Genova, per Giammaria Farroni, 1646, in 
 quarto. 
 Parte terza, libri 6, dal 1644 a! 1650. In Ge- 
 nova, per Giovanni A mbrofio Vicenti, 1663, 
 in quarto. 
 
 The iirft part of this hiftory raifed a great noife 
 in Italy. The Venetians, in particular, took 
 offence at fbme part of it-, but Capriata found 
 the means of appeafing not only Zaccheria Sa- 
 gredo, who was the leading man in the Senate, 
 but pacified the Republick itfclf, by his wife 
 and' fubmifiive apologies. Yet, as he was a 
 man of a haughty temper, he could not pardon 
 the clamour of others who had no bufmefs 
 to run him down; and behind the frontif- 
 piece of the fecond part he had a devife, in 
 which a full moon is reprefent^d and two dogs 
 barking at her, with the motto, Sed peragit 
 curfus muta Diana fucs. He was of Genoa, 
 and his hiftjrical writings are in reputation for 
 
 veracity, but not for fti'e. 
 
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 Dell* Iftoria d' Italia di Girolamo Brusano, libri 
 46, dall' anno 1625 al 1679. In Torino, per 
 Bartolomeo Zappata, in folio. 
 Brufoni writ a prodigious quantity of books, 
 but all in fo wretched a ftile, that none of them 
 are read except this voluminous hiftory, which 
 is thought veracious. He was a man of a very 
 changeable temper, and was a monk many 
 times ; but after having lived fome months in 
 a convent, grew conftantly tired of the ftill 
 life, and re-entered to the world. 
 
 L' Iftoria della Republica Veneziana di Battifta 
 Nan 1, Cavaliere e Procurator di San Marco, 
 from the year 161 3 to 1671. In Venezia, 
 preflb il Combi. 1662, 1679, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 Don Piercaterino, brother to Apoflolo Z.eno, writ 
 the life of this celebrated Venetian Senator and 
 hiftoriau. 
 
 L' Iftoria di Milano di Bernardino Corio. In 
 Vinegia, per Giammaria Bonelli, 1554, ifi v. 
 quarto. 
 
 Though the ftile of this hiftory has been po- 
 lilhed in this edition, yet is ftill very inelegant ; 
 but the author is reckoned veracious, and is 
 one of our capital hiftorians: 
 
 Cremona, fedeliffima Citta eColonia de' Roman?, 
 rapprefentata, in difegno col fuo Contado e il- 
 luftrata con una breve Storia delle Cofe piu no- 
 tabili appartenenti ad effa, e de' ritratti natu- 
 ral de' Duchi e Ducheffe di Milano, e com- 
 pendia delle loro Vite, da Antonio Campo 
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 Pittore e Cavalier Cremonefe. Cremona, the moji 
 faithful City and Colony of the Romans drawn 
 with its Territory, and tlluflrated with a fhort 
 Hifiory of the moft notable things regarding it, and 
 with the Portraits after Life of the Dukes and 
 Dutchejjes of Milan, (cut by Agoftino Caracci) 
 with a Sketch of their Lives, by &c. In Cre- 
 mona, in Cafa dell' Autore, 1585, in folio. 
 This book is more remarkable for the cuts than 
 For any thing elfe. 
 
 Due Difcorfi di un antico figniflcato del la voce 
 Porta, e dell' antico Sito di Capua di Camillo 
 Pellegrino. In Napoli, preffo il Savio, 
 1643, in quarto. 
 
 Thcfe historical difcourfes by Pellegrino are Full 
 of erudition. 
 
 La Congiura de' Baroni del Regno di Napoli con- 
 tra il Re Ferdinando I. raccolta da Cammillo 
 Porzio. In Roma, 1565, in quarto. The 
 Printer was Paolo Manuzio. 
 This Camillo Porzio, a Neapolitan, furnamed 
 Junior, to diftinguim him from another Camillo 
 of the fame family, but of Rome, was fon of Si' 
 mono Porzio, a celebrated philofopher in his time. 
 
 L' Iftoria del Regno di Napoli di Angelo di Cos- 
 V. tanzo. Nell' Acquila, per Giufeppe Cacchio, 
 1581, in folio. 
 
 This hiftory is moft elegantly written. The 
 author was a good lyrick poet. 
 
 I Caftigatiflimi Annali, con la loro copiofa Fa- 
 vo]p, della ecctlfa ed illuftrifiirna Republica di 
 
 Genova.
 
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 Genova del Reverendo Monfignore Agdftino 
 Giustiniaho, to the year 1528. In Genova, 
 per Antonio Bellone Torinefe, 1537, in folio. 
 
 Giufliniano was bifhop of Nebio in Corfica. He 
 was much verfed in the oriental languages, and 
 the firft. profeffor of them in the univerfity of 
 Paris, in the time of Francis I. there he had 
 prepared a Bible Poliglotta, of which only the 
 Pfalter is printed, in Genoa, 15 16, in folio. 
 He had a mind to publifh the whole Bible in 
 the fame form as the Pfalter, but loft courage 
 at feeing how little his firft fpecimen fold ; be- 
 caufe, of two thoufand copies that he printed, 
 befides fifty in vellum, that he fent to all Chrif- 
 tian and Pagan Kings in the worlds as he him- 
 felf fays, he did not fell five hundred, which 
 made him a great lofer, and rendered him 
 unable to go on in fo noble an ehterprife. 
 Though he was fo fkilled in ancient languages, 
 he knevV little of his own, and his hiftory is not 
 at all recommendable for ftile. He died un- 
 fortunately in a fhipwreck between Corfica and 
 Genoa. 
 
 Uberto Foglietta della Republica di Genova, 
 libri due. In Roma, per Antonio Blado, 1559, 
 in o&avo. 
 
 Foglietta was banifhed his country for having 
 fpoke too much truth in this hiftory, which is 
 written in dialogue. 
 
 / Iftoria Antica di Ricordano Malespint, 
 GemiluomQ Fiorcminoj fino dall' anno 128 1, 
 
 con
 
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 con la Giunta da Giacchetto fuo Nipote fino al 
 1286. In Fiorenza, prefib i Giunti, 1568, in 
 quarto ; and alfo per Gio. Gaetano Tartini e 
 Sand Franchi, 1718, in quarto, together with 
 La Cronicadi Giovanni Morelli Fiorentino. 
 This hiftory is thought to be the firft written 
 in Italian. The ftile is a little obfolete but 
 excellent, and often quoted by the Academi- 
 cians della Crufca in their dictionary. 
 Storia di Giovanni Villani, Citiadin Fiorentino, 
 corretta e alia fua vera Lezione ridotta (daBac- 
 cio Valori) col rifcontro de' Tefti Antichi. In 
 Fiorenza, per Filippo e Giacopo Giunt', 1587, 
 in quarto. 
 Le Iftorie di Matteo Villani, Cittadin Fioren- 
 tino che continua quelle di Giovanni il Fratello, 
 to the year 1360, con la Giunta di Filippo fuo 
 Figliuolo, to the year 1365. 
 The Villani were all three excellent writers. 
 Few things in Italian come up to their purity 
 of language and ftile, and no hiftory is fo 
 pleafing as theirs to my tafte, though their lan- 
 guage is a little obfolete. 
 Cronichette Antiche di vari Scrittoridel buon Se- 
 colo della Lingua Tofcana ; that is, Of the 
 thirteenth Century. In Firenze, per Domenico 
 Maria Manni, J 73 3, in quarto. 
 Cronica di Firenze di Donato Velluti dal 1300 
 al 1370. In Firenze, per Domenico Maria 
 Manni, 173 1, in quarto. 
 Iftoriadi DinoCoMPAGNi dal 1280 al 1312. In 
 
 Rrenze, preffo il Manni, 1728, in quarto. 
 
 The
 
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 The Accademicians della Crufca made great ufe 
 for authorities of thefe hiftories and chronicles 
 of Malefpiui, Fillani, &c. which are written 
 with great fimplicity and purity of language, 
 as well as the two following books. 
 
 Cronica di Buonaccorfo Pitti, from the year 
 141 2 to 1430. In Firenze, preffo Giufeppe 
 Manni, 1720, in quarto, with notes by Giam- 
 battifta Cafotti, Antonmaria Salvini, and Sal- 
 vino Salvini his brother. 
 
 Diario de' Succeffi piu importanti, feguiti in Italia 
 e particolarmente in Fiorenza dal 1498 al 15 12, 
 raccolto da Biagio Buonaccorfi con la Vita di 
 , Lorenzo de Medici il Vecchio, di Nicolo Va- 
 j,ori. In Fiorenza, preffo i Giunti, 1568, in 
 quarto. 
 
 L' Iftorie di Firenze di Jacopo Nardi, Cittadin 
 Fiofentino, dal 1494 fino al 1531, con un 
 Catalogo de' Gonfalonieri di Giuftizia del Ma- 
 giftrato fupremo, e un Difcorfo di Francefco 
 Giuntini fopra la Citia di Lione. In Lione, 
 per Teobaldo Ancelin, 1582, in quarto. 
 
 This hiftory bears alfo a great character for 
 truth and flile. 
 
 \J Iftorie Florentine di Scipione Ammirato con 
 le Giunte di Scipione Ammirato il Giovane. 
 In Firenze, per Amador Mafii, torn. 1, 16475 
 torn. 2, 1641 ; torn, 3, 1647, in folio. 
 Scipione Ammirato is one of our good hifto- 
 rians. At his death he left his goods, his arms* 
 
 his
 
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 his name and furname to Crijioforo Biancbr, 
 who was his afiiftant in his ftudies, who there- 
 Fore took the name of Scipione Ammirato Junior \ 
 and was the continuator of his benefactor's 
 hiftories. 
 
 Dellelftorie Florentine di NicoloM acchiavelli; 
 Printed with the reft of Maccbiavellfs works in 
 Amfterdam, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Of Maccbiavelli I had occafion to fpeak in an- 
 other place. 
 
 & Iftoria Fiorentina di M. Domenico Buonin- 
 segni Gentiluomo Fiorentino, to the year 
 1410. In Fiorenza, per Giorgio Mireicotci, 
 1 58 1, in quarto ; and trom the year 14 ro' to 
 1460, in Fiorenza, nella Stampem, del Lan- 
 ding 1637, in quarto. 
 
 Buoninfegni had great part in the tranfaclbns 
 defcribed in his hiftory, and his language is very 
 good. The two next hiftories are alfo excel- 
 lent, but I know nothing of their authors. 
 
 I Commentari de' fatti Civili, occorfi nellla Citta 
 di Firenze dall* anno 12 15 al 1537, ^critti dal 
 Senatore Filippo Nerm Gentiluomo Fioren- 
 tino. In Augufta, 1728, per David Rai- 
 mondo Mertz e Gianjacopo Majer, in folio. 
 
 Storia delle Cofe Avvenute in Tofcana dall* anno 
 I300al 1348, e dell' Origine della Parte Bian- 
 ca e Nera che di Piftoja fi fparfe per tutta Tof- 
 cana e Lombardia 5 e de' molti c fieri accidenti 
 
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 che ne feguirono, fcrittaper Autore che ne me* 
 defimi tempi viffe. A Hiftory of the Things 
 that happened in 'Tufcany from the year 1 300 to 
 1348, and of the Origin of the Biancbi and 
 Neri (two parties like thofe of the Guelfs and 
 Gibellines) who from Pifioja fpread all over Tuf- 
 cany and Lombardy, and of the many and cruel 
 Conferences that followed^ written by an Author 
 who lived in thofe times. In Firenze, nella 
 Stamperia de' Giunti, 1578, in quarto 5 and 
 there alfo, per Tartini e Franchi, with this 
 title, Iftorie Piftolefi, ovvero delle Cole awe-* 
 nute in Tofcana dall' anno 1300 al 1348, e 
 Diario del Monaldi. 
 
 Delia Serie degli Antichi Diichi e Marchefi di 
 Tofcana con altre Notizie dell' Imperio Romano 
 e del Regno de' Gotti e de' Longobardi, dall* 
 Efilio di Momillo Auguftolo alia Morte di Ot- 
 tone III. Imperadore, raccolta da Colimo 
 della Ren a. In Firenze, prefTo Nicold Coc- 
 chini, 1 690, in folio. 
 
 This elegant hiftory by della Rena, Academi- 
 cian della Crufca, was at flrft received with 
 great applaufe in Italy; but Jtfura.tori, with 
 the authority of many old manuscripts of the 
 library of the duke of Modena his mafter, 
 found many miilakes in it. 
 
 Memorie di Matilda la gran Conteffa d* Italia, di 
 Francefco Maria Fiorentini. In Lucca, per 
 Pellegrino Bidellr, 1642, in' quarto. 
 
 The
 
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 The famous Leibnitz faid of this w ;rk : Vita 
 magna Metildis thefaurum continet praclararum 
 notitiarum, nugis explo/is, quas vulgo exfe mutuo 
 tranfcribunl hiftorici. 
 
 U Iftoria de' Principi d' Efte di Giambattifta 
 Pigna, to the year 1476. In Venezia, per 
 Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1572, in quarto. 
 
 Two Italian writers fay, that the author of this 
 hiftory was not Pigna but Girolamo Faletti, who, 
 at his death, left the manufcript to Pigna : and 
 that Pigna treacheroufly printed it with his own 
 name prefixed to it. 
 
 L' Iftoria di Bologna, to the year 1320, di Fra 
 Cherubino Ghirardacci. In Bologna, per 
 Giovanni Roffi, 1596, in folio. 
 This hiftory I never read. 
 
 Cronica dell' Origine di Piacenza, gia Latina- 
 mente fcritta, fatta per Omberto Locato dell' 
 Ordine de' Predicatori, ora dal Medefimo ri- 
 dotta fedelmente nella volgar nortra favella. 
 In Cremona, per Vincenzo Conti, 1564, in 
 quarto. 
 
 It is remarkable what Locato fays in this book, 
 that the ftipend of Filippo da Reggio> for read- 
 ing Dante in the univerfity of Piacenza (now 
 no more fubfilVing, but famous about the year 
 1400) was of five livres, fix foldi, and eight 
 denari a year, which is about a milling and 
 two-pence Englifti money. 
 
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 Verona Illuftrata, dal MarchefejScipione Maffei. 
 In Verona, pel Vallarfi, 1732, in folio. 
 This is the author of Merope, named elfewhere. 
 I like his profe better than his poetry. 
 
 L' Iftoria Trivigiana di Giovanni Bonifacio. In 
 Trivigi, per Domenico Amici, 1591, in 
 quarto ; e in Venezia, per Giambattifta di Gi- 
 rolamo Albrizi, with additions, 1744, in 
 quarto. 
 
 The author received a prefent of a valuable 
 diamond from Alfonfo II. Duke of Ferrara, 
 for having named his family in this hiftory. 
 Le Origini di Padova di Lorenzo Pignoria. In 
 Padova, per Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1625, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Pignoria is one of our moft celebrated writers* 
 Rifpofta di Jacopo Grandi a una Lettera di 
 Aleflandro Pini fopra alcune richiefte intorno 
 a Santa Maura (the ancient Ithaca) e alia Pre- 
 vefa. In Venezia, preffo il Combi, 1686, in 
 duodecimo. A very curious little book. 
 Grandi and Pini were both phyficians of note, 
 efpecialiy the firft. 
 Memorie Iftoriche di Tragurio, ora detto Trau, 
 di Giovanni Lucio, with Dalmatick infcrip- 
 tions at the end of the book. In Venezia, per 
 Stefano Curti, 1673, in quarto. The printer 
 a year afterwards reprinted the firft fheet of this 
 work, and fubftituted this title to the fame 
 edition, Iftoria di Dalmazia, e in particolare 
 
 della
 
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 deIJa Citta di Trad, di Spalato, e Sebenico de- 
 fcritta da Giovanni Lucio. 
 As curious a hiftory as any in our language, 
 though written in a bad ftile. 
 
 Iftoria Civile del Regno di Napoli di Pietro Gi- 
 annone. In Napoli, 1723, 4 vol. in quarto. 
 A book famous for the trouble it brought on 
 its author, who died lately a prifoner id the 
 citadel of Turin, after many years imprifon- 
 ment. This edition is very fcarce,, almoft all 
 the copies having been deftroyed, as containing 
 many political principles that did not pleafe the 
 court of Rome. The author was a learned and 
 moral man, bore his confinement with chear- 
 fulnefs and resignation -, but he did not write 
 an elegant ftile. 
 
 Iftoria del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro Soave 
 Polano. In Londra, 16 19, in folio. 
 
 The famous Fra Paolo Sarpi concealed his name 
 under this of Pietro Soave. This edition is the 
 moll valued, becaufe it contains a long preface, 
 written by the unfortunate Marcantonio de Do- 
 minis, archhilhop of Spalato, who publickly 
 renounced in London (in St. Paul's Church) 
 the Roman Catholick Religion ; but returning 
 afterwards to Rome, was publickly burnt after 
 his death in the Inquifition. See the letters of 
 Trajano Boccalini, printed in Baft lea, 2 vol. in 
 quarto, in one of which there is the whole pro- 
 
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 Gefs of de Dominis*s adventures. Of Sarpi's 
 ftile I fpoke in another place ; that of de Do- 
 minis was a little better. 
 
 Iftoria del Concilio di Trento fcritta dal Cardinale 
 Sforza Pallavicino. In Roma, per Angelo 
 Bernabo, 1656 and 1657, 2 vol. in folio. 
 This is a confutation of Fra Paulo's hiftory, 
 and better written as to ftile* 
 
 Iftoria de' Giubilei Pontifici da Bonifacio VIII. 
 a Cfemente VII. fcritrada Andrea Vittorelli 
 BafTan'efe. In Roma, per il Mafcardi, 1625, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Iftoria di tutte le Religioni che fono ftate alMon- 
 do con gli Autori di quelle : con P Origine an- 
 cora delle Religioni Mi!i;ari, raccolta dal P. 
 Paolo Mo r 1 g 1 a . A Hiftory of all religious Or- 
 ders that have exifted in the World, together with 
 that of military religious Orders, collected by &c. 
 InVenezia, preflfo Giambattifta Bonfadio, 1586, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Though the title is fo pompous, yet there is 
 little in the book that anlwers it. 
 
 Memorie Iftoriche dell' Intoduzione delle Erefie 
 nelle Valiidi Lucerna, Marchefato di Saluzzo, 
 ed altri luoghi del Piemont-, del Prior Mar- 
 caurelioLusiNGo. InTorino, 1694, in quarto. 
 Many curious anecdotes are contained in this 
 book, though it is in no great reputation. 
 
 As there is fcarce a village in Italy but there is a 
 
 particular hiftory of it, fo 1 could lengthen my 
 
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 catalogue by many meets ; neverthelefs, I chufe 
 to leave out every thing that cannot intereft a 
 foreigner, for whofe ufe I write it ; but fo much 
 I muft fay, than thefe petty hiftories of obfcure 
 places generally contain very curious anecdotes, 
 and could help a di'igent writer of a general 
 hiftory to very incerefting facts, becaufe thofe 
 little authors had their little archives open, and 
 were, for the greateft part, aflifted in their 
 compilations by all the records kept in the mod 
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 t ^ Hf # nc f# | >tti ft ' f 
 
 Vite d' Uomini Grandi. Lives of Great Mem 
 
 LE Vite de' Filofofi tratte da LaerZio e da altri 
 per Jacopo Chierico e Onofrio de' Bona* 
 corfi. In Fircnze, 1489, in quarto. 
 
 Le Vite de* Philofophi Volgarij Libro eftratto da 
 Diogene Laenio e da akri antiquifiimi Dottoii. 
 In Bologna, 1494. 
 
 I think that there is a fault in the tile of this 
 book, and that inftead of Volgari it ought to be 
 Qreci\ but as I never could fee the book, fo I 
 regifter it here as I find it in /%%'jBibliotheque. 
 
 Libro delle Vite degl' Imperatori e Pontefici per 
 Francefco Petrarca. Florentine, apud Jaco- 
 bum de Ripolis* 1478, in folio. 
 
 Uomini famofi di Francefco Petrarca. Rur. 
 
 Polliano, 1476, in folio -, and in Verona, per 
 
 Innocenzo ZiJecti, Kal. Oft. 1476, in folio, 
 
 translated from the Latin. 
 
 Thefe two old books, written by our celebrated 
 
 Lyrick, are very fcarce and Valuable. 
 Le Vite degl' Imperatori Romani di Antonino 
 
 CiccarelLi, wiih cuts. In Roma, 1590, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Ciccarelli^ of Foligno, was no inelegant writer, 
 
 but we have few things of him. 
 La Vita di Carlo Magno Imperatore fcritta da 
 
 Petruccio Ubaldino Cittadin Fiorentino. In 
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 Londra, preflb Gio. Wolfio Inghilefe, 1581, 
 
 in quarto. 
 
 I fhall give an account of Ubaldino a few pages 
 
 further. 
 
 Le Vite di tutti gl' Imperatori, compofte da Pie- 
 tro Messia, e da Lodovico Dolce tradotte ed 
 ampliate, aggiuntavi la Vita di Carlo Quinto. 
 In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1561, in quano, 
 fecond edition. 
 
 Meffia was very near fuch a writer as Dolce^ that 
 is tolerably elegant, but not poiTcfled of any 
 great power of writing. 
 
 Vita e fatti di Carlo y. Imperatore di Alfonfo 
 Ulloa. In Venezia, per il Valgrifio, 1566, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Francis Ulloa, a Spanilh gentleman, went to 
 the famous expediiion againft Algiers with 
 Charles V. and behaved with remarkable bra- 
 very ; yet his name would be forgot, was it not 
 for his fon, who, befides the Spanifli blade, 
 could manage an Italian quill with fpecial 
 elegance. 
 
 There is a life of the Emperor Charles V. by 
 Leti v but he was, in every refpect, fo bad a 
 writer, that I chufe to pals in filence over all his 
 inelegant and foolith works. 
 
 Vita dell' Imperator Ferdinando Primo di Alfonfo 
 di Ulloa. In Venezia, 1565, in quarto. 
 
 Vica di Ferdinando Imperatore, di Lodovico 
 
 Dolce. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1567, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Galeazzo
 
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 Galeazzo Gualdo, Iftoria di Ferdinando Terzo. 
 la Vienna, 1672, 2 vol. in folio. 
 This book I never faw $ but this Gualdo is no 
 writer of reputation. 
 
 Carlo Giufeppe M. Reina, Vita ed Imperio di 
 Leopoldo I. In Milano, 1710, in octavo. 
 This abridgment is very good, as well as the 
 two next ; but I know not the authors of them. 
 
 Iftoria di Leopoldo Cefare. In Vienna, 1674, 
 3 vol. in folio. Author unknown. 
 
 Vita e Fatti di Leopoldo il Grande. Lipfia, 1 708, 
 in octavo ; and in Colonia, 17 12, in octavo. 
 
 La Vita di Federigo Barbaroffa Imperadore Ro- 
 mano, di M. Cofimo Bartoli. In Firenze, 
 per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1559, in octavo. 
 Cofimo Bartoli and his brother Giorgio, Floren- 
 tines, were both Academicians della Crujca, and 
 both elegant writers and nice obfervers of all 
 the rules of the Italian language; but their 
 manner of fpelling is not followed by any of 
 our judicious writers, either of Florence, or of 
 any other part of Italy. 
 
 La Vita del Cattolico e invittiflimo D. Filippo II. 
 d' Auftria Re delle Spagne, di Cefare Cam- 
 pana. In Venezia, per Bartolommeo Caram- 
 pello, in quarto, printed by parts, and in dif- 
 ferent years. 
 Inelegant, and full of the groflfeft flattery. 
 
 Uomini e Donne iliuftri di Gio. Boccacio, tra- 
 dotti del Latino da Giufeppe Betussf. In Fi- 
 renze, peri Giunti, 1566, 2 vol. in octavo. 
 
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 Betujfi^ of Bafifano, was fir ft one of the cour- 
 tiers of Renata of France, Dutchefs of Ferrara, 
 then one of Giolito's correctors. He praifed 
 her much in his wriirgs befo e he knew that 
 fhe had embraced the doctrine of Calvin^ whofe 
 fecret correfpontfent Ihe was. This ha mifled 
 fome Italian writers, who think he alfo was a 
 Calvinift ; bur, if he was, it does not appear 
 by any thing left behind him. Every thing he 
 writ is elegant above mediocrity. 
 Prontuario dtlle medaglie degl' Uomini e Donne 
 illuftri con i loro Ritratti e Vite in Compendio. 
 In Lione, prefifo Guglielmo Rovilio, 15$$* 
 The greateft part of the portraits are imaginary 
 ones j and the book is not well written. 
 
 Indice degli Uomini illuftri di Girolamo Rus-, 
 celli. In Venezia, per Comin da Trino, 
 1572, in quarto. 
 
 Gli Elogi e Vite brevemente fcritte d' Uomini il- 
 luftri di Guerra antichi e modern i, di Paolo 
 Giovio Vefcovo di Nocera, tradotte da Lodo- 
 vico Dome nic hi, from the Latin. In Fio- 
 renza, per Lorenzo Torrentino, ^554, in 
 quarto. 
 
 I fpoke both of Giovio and Domenichi in other 
 places. 
 
 Ritratti ed Elogi di Capitani illuftri che ne' Secoli 
 moderni hanno gloriofamente guerreggiato, de- 
 fcritti da diverfi Autoii. In Roma, ad iftanza 
 di Filippo Rgffi, 1646, in quartOj with cuts. 
 
 None
 
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 None of thefe divers authors writ elegantly, yet 
 the book is much valued by the lovers of hiftory 
 for the many fads contained in it, not to be 
 found in any other book: 
 
 Gl' illultri e gloriofi gefti e vittoriofe imprefe fatte 
 contra Turchi da Giorgio Caftriotto dettoScan- 
 derbeg Prencipe d' Epiro. In Venezia, prefib 
 Altobello Salicato, 1584, in quarto. 
 A very curious and well written book. 
 
 La Vita di Ferdinando Davalo Marchefe di Pef- 
 cara fcritta (in Latin) da Paolo Giovio, e tra-r 
 dotta da Lodovico Domenichi. In Firenze, 
 per il Torrentino, 1550, in oftavo. 
 A valuable book, as well as the next, tranflatec| 
 by the elegant fhoe- maker. 
 
 Vita di Alfonfo da Efte, Duca di Ferrara, fcritta 
 dal Giovio (in Larin) e tradotta in Lingqa 
 Tofcana da Giambattifta Gelli Fiorentino. In 
 In Firenze, peril Torrentino, 1553, in octavo. 
 
 Vite di Dodici Vifcontidi Milano (with cuts) de- 
 fcritte da Paolo Giovio. In Milano, 1645, 
 in quarto. 
 
 This is one of the beft things that ever this fa- 
 mous author writ. 
 
 Sorrimario delle Vite de i Duchi di Milano di 
 Scipione Barbuo. In Venezia, 1584, in folio. 
 
 Vita di Francefco Maria di Montefeltro della Ro- 
 vere IV. Duca d' Urbino, defcritta da Giam- 
 battifta Leoni. In Venezia, prefib il Ciotti, 
 1695, in quarto. 
 
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 Of this Leoni 1 fhall fay fomething, when I 
 come to h.s Letters. 
 
 Vite de' Principi di Venezia fcrkte da Pietro Mar- 
 cello, in Latin, e tradotte da Lodovico Do- 
 menichj, con le Vite dj que' Prencipi che fu- 
 rono dopo i! Barbarigo fino al Doge Priuli. In 
 Venezia, per Francefco Marcolini, 1558, in 
 o<5tavo. 
 
 Vita di Nicolo di Lorenzo detto Cola di Rienzo, 
 Tribuno del Popolo Romano, da Tomafo Fi >r- 
 tifiocca. In Bracciano, 1624, in duodecimo. 
 This is a very fcarce and curious book, but 
 little intelligible, for its being written in the 
 Roman dialect of that age. 
 
 Vite di Cinque Uommi i!!u(t i, due Farinata degli 
 Uberri, Duca d' Atene, Salveitro Medici, Co- 
 fimo dt Medici il piu Vecchio, e Francefco 
 Valori, fcrkte dall' Abate D. Silvano Razzi. 
 In Firenze, per i Giunti, in quarto. 
 An excellent book this is, as well as the next. 
 
 Vita di Pietro Soderini Goufalonitre Perpetuo 
 della Republica Fiorentini, fcritta dall' Abat e 
 D. Siivano Raezi. In Padova, 1737, in quar- 
 to, with cuts: 
 
 La Vita e Fatti di Bartolomeo Coleone, fcritta da 
 Pietro Spino. In Venezia, per Francefco Per- 
 cacino, 1569, in quarto. 
 Spina, of Bergamo, was a tolerable lyrick poet; 
 but few things remain of him. 
 
 Vita di D. Ferrante Gonznga, Prencipe di Mol- 
 
 |$fetta, da Alfonfo Ulloa. In Venezia, 1563, 
 
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 Of Ulloa I fpoke a few pages before. 
 
 Le Azioni di Caftruccio Caftracani degli Antel- 
 mineili, Signore di Lucca, con la Genealogia 
 della Famiglia, eftratte dalla nuova Defcrizione 
 d' Italia, di Aido Manucci. In Roma, per 
 gli Eredi di Giovanni Gigliotti, 1 590, in quarto. 
 
 La Vita di Caftruccio Caftracani, fcritta in Latino 
 da Nicolo Tegrimi, e tradotta in Italiano da 
 Giufro Compagni da Volterra, In Lucca, 
 1556, in octavo. 
 
 There is another life of Caftracani, written by 
 Maccbiavelli, and printed with the reft of his 
 works ; but the above life of Caftracani, by 
 Manutius, is reckoned the beft of the three. 
 That ot T ^rimi was wr'uten by order of the 
 Lucchefe, who were angry at that by Maccbia- 
 velli, for making too great a rafcal of their 
 countrymen. 
 
 Le Iftorie e Vite di Braccio Fortebracci detto da 
 Montone, e di Nicolo Piccinino Perumno, tra- 
 dotte dal Latino da Gio. Antonio Campano, 
 con la Vita di Gi.imbattifta Poggio, di Pompeo 
 Pellini. In Perugia, 1636, in quarto. 
 A curious book, but not remarkable for purity 
 of language. 
 
 Le Vite delle Donne illuftri del Regno d'Inghil- . 
 terra da Petruccio L^baldino. In Londra, -^C" 
 1 60 1, in quarto. 
 
 Ubaldino, a nobleman of Florence, lived many 
 years in Great-Britain, in the fervice of Edward 
 VI. Thefe Lives of illuftrious Englijh Ladies 
 
 he
 
 1*6 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y; 
 
 he penned with great gallantry and elegance, 
 and he muft certainly have been the favourite 
 of the Britifh Belles of his time, having been 
 as handfome in his figure, and as valiant with 
 his fword, as he was able at his pen. There is 
 of him a Defcription of the Kingdom of Scotland 
 and adjacent Tfles, printed at Antwerp, without 
 a printer's name, in 1588, in folio, which he 
 writ while he was vifuing that country. He 
 writ alfo The Life of Charles the Great, men- 
 tioned above -, and in the preface fays, that it 
 was La prima Opera Italiana chefi fiampaffe in 
 Londra , Thefirfi Italian Book that was printed 
 in London. He declares alfo, that he writ it, 
 becaufe, having feen how many fables and dreams 
 the poets have writ of that Emperor, be thought 
 it the duty of a man, born to be ufeful to others, 
 to explode, as much as poffible, falfhood from ths 
 world, and fubjlitute truth in/lead. In the li- 
 brary of the Fofcarini at Venice, there is a ma- 
 nufcript hiftory of him, written with his own 
 hand, of the reign of his matter Edward. I 
 wifti fome travelling Englifh gentleman, inftead 
 of throwing away his money on the Venetian 
 Ancilld 's-and Betta*s, would get that manufcript 
 copied, tranflated, and printed. Iamfurethis 
 nation would be more obliged to fuch a man for 
 fuch a prefent, than for all the ancient toys, 
 (haped blocks, and idle pictures that too many 
 of thefe gentlemen bring home from Italy. 
 Many better things they might have there 
 
 for
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 187 
 
 for their money, if they were rather men of 
 genius than of pleafure, and would peep in 
 our publick and private libraries. But this is 
 not the place to enlarge on fuch a fubjcct. 
 
 Vita di Camillo Orfini, di Giufeppe Orologgi. 
 In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1565, in quarto; 
 and in Bracciano, per Jacopo di Andrea Fei, 
 1669, in quarto, with an addition of fome 
 letters, and other things tending to illuftrate 
 the life of that hero, collected by Niccola Lu~ 
 pacchino, Orokggi was no bad writer. 
 
 Delie Azioni e Sentenze di Aleflfandro de' Medici 
 primo Duca di Firenze, di Aleflfandro Cec- 
 cherelli Fiorentino. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, 1564, in quarto. 
 
 This book, written in dialogue, is much va- 
 lued for the language and curious things it 
 contains. 
 
 Vita del Prencipe Andrea Doria, defcritta da Lo- 
 renzo Cappelloni. In Venezia, preflb il 
 Giolito, 1565, in quarto. 
 Cappelloni, a man of great learning, was of 
 Genoa. 
 
 Vita di Cofimo de' Medici Primo Gran Duca di 
 Tofcana, defcritta da Aldo Manucci. In Bo- 
 logna, 1586, in folio. Printer unknown. 
 This life, by the junior Aldo, is written with 
 great elegance. 
 
 Vita del Medefimo, fcritta da Giambattifta Cini. 1 
 In Firenze, prefifo i Giunti, 161 1, in quarto. 
 
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 Cini was a poet of Florence. I have regiftered 
 one of his comedies in its place. 
 
 Vita del Medefimo, defcritta da Baccio Balding 
 In Firenze, per Bartolomeo Sermatelli, 1578, 
 in folio. 
 Baldini was another elegant poet of Florence. 
 
 Vita del magnifico Lorenzo de* Medici il Vecchio, 
 di Nicolo Valor 1. In Fiorenza, 1568, in 
 quarto. 
 
 The above Lives of Cofimo de* Medici, 'by Ma- 
 nucci, Cini, and Baldini, are all good, as well 
 in regard to the hiftorical part as to the lan- 
 guage , but this, by Valori, is the beft in both 
 refpects. 
 
 Iftoria de' Fatti di Cefare Maggi da Napoli, dove 
 fi contegono tutte le guerre fuccedute nel fuo 
 Tempo in Lombardiaed in altre parti d' Italia 
 e fuor d* Italia, raccolte de Luca Contile. In 
 Pavia,preffo Girolamo Bartoli, 1 564, in octavo. 
 A moft valuable book, and the beft thing that 
 ever the poet Contile writ. 
 
 Vita di Andrea Cantelmo, fcritta da Lionardo da 
 
 Capoa. In Napoli, per Jacopo Raillard, 1694, 
 
 in quarto. 
 Vita di Antonio Giacomini Tebalducci Malefpini, 
 
 fcritta da Jacopo Nard 1. In Fiorenza, peril 
 
 Sermatelli, 1597, * n i uart0 
 
 I have faid in another place, that this Nardi was 
 
 an elegant writer: 
 Iftoria di LodovicoDoMENicHi de' Detti e Fatti 
 
 notabili di diveffi Prencipi ed Uomini privati 
 
 moderni
 
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 moderni, Libri 1 2. In Vcnezia, per il Giolito, 
 
 1556, in quarto. 
 
 This is not the worft of Domenichi's works. 
 
 Yita e Geftv di Ezzellino III. da Autore Pietro 
 Gerardo Padovano fuo Contemporaneo. In 
 Venezia, per Curzio Navd- al fegno del Leone, 
 1543, in octavo. 
 
 This book, written in the thirteenth century 
 by Gerardo in bad Italian, was corrected and 
 published by Sebaftiano Faufto da Longiano. 
 
 La Vita di Filippo ScolaFi (detto Pippo Spano 
 Conte di Temefvar e Generate di Sigifmondo 
 Imperatore) fcritta da Domenico Mellini. la 
 Firenze, pel Sermatelli, 1606, in octavo; 
 As curious a book as any in our language. 
 
 La Vita di Jacopo Raggazzoni Conte di S. Odo- 
 rico, fcritta di Giufeppe Gallucci. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Giorgio Rizzardo, 1616, in quarto. 
 
 La Vita di Pier Veitori F Antico, gentiluomo 
 Fiorentino, fcritta da MefTere Antonio Beni- 
 vieni. In Fiorenza, preffo i Giunti, 1583 
 in quarto. 
 
 La Battorea ; that is, T'he Hifiory of Sigifmond 
 Bat tori, Prince of Tranfifoania, di Monfignor 
 Giorgio Tomasi, Protonotario Apoftolico. 
 In Conegliano, per Marco Clafeai, 1609, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Vice degl* illuftri Filofofi di Diogene Laerzio, dal 
 Greco ridotte in Lingua comune d' Italia. In 
 Venezia, per Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1545, in 
 -octavo. 
 
 This
 
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 This book was tranQated by the two brothers 
 Kofitini da Pratalboino, named in another place. 
 
 Filoftrato Lemnio della Vita di Apollonio Tianeo 
 tradotto da Francefco Baldilli, con una con- 
 futation di Eufebio Cefarbfe contra Jerocle, il 
 quale fi sforzava per 1' Iftoria di Filoftrato d' 
 aflbmigliare Apollonio a Crifto. In Firenze, 
 per il Torrentino, 1 549, in octavo. 
 
 Vita di Apollonio Tianeo, fcritta da Filoftrato e 
 tradotta in Lingua volgare da Lodovico DolCe. 
 In Venezia, prefib il Giolito, 1 549, in oflavo* 
 Baldello\ is a better tranflation than Dolce's. 
 
 U Iftoria de' Poeti Greci, fcritta da Lorenzo 
 
 Crasso. In Napoli, 1678, in folio. 
 
 A book full of erudition. 
 Vita di Dante Alighieri, compofta da Giovanni 
 
 Boccaccio. In Roma, per Francefco Prif- 
 
 cianefe, 1544, in octavo. 
 
 One of the mod valued things written by the 
 
 famous Boccaccio. 
 
 Vite di Dante e del Petrarca, fcritte da Lionardo 
 Aretino. In Firenz?, alt' Infegnadella Stella, 
 1672, in duodecimo. 
 
 A book as much valued as the above by Boc- 
 caccio. 
 
 Poeti Sicil'ani di Gio. Vintimiglia. In Napolij 
 per Sebaftiano Alecci, 1663) in quarto, the 
 firft book only. 
 
 ThU book treats of the ancient Sicilian poets, 
 but only the Bucolicks, of whom there is an 
 
 index
 
 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. i 9 t 
 
 index at the beginning of the book, and an oc- 
 calional Account of the Origin and Progrefs of 
 Poetry in Sicily. The author, who was of 
 Medina, gave us alfo another index in it of all 
 the Sicilian Poets , old and modern, of whom he 
 had a mind to fpeak in his work. It is pity he 
 did not continue and finifli it, being perhaps hin- 
 dered by death, 
 
 Le Vite delli piu celebri ed antichi Poeti Proven- 
 zali che fiorirono nel tempo de' Re di Napoli e 
 Conti di Provenza, i quaii infegnarono a tutti 
 il poetar volgare, raccolte dall* Opere didiverfi 
 fcrittori che in quella Lingua fcrifTero ed in 
 Lingua Francefe pofte da Giovanni di Nostra 
 Dama, ed ora tradotte in Italia da Giovanni 
 Gi u d ici. The Lives of the mojl celebrated and 
 ancient Poets of Provence, who lived in the 'Time 
 of the Kings of Naples and of the Counts of Pro- 
 vence, who taught to all the Italians the Art of 
 Poetry, collet! ed from the Works of various Wri- 
 ters that writ in Provencial, &c. In Lione, 
 preffo Aleflfandro Manigli, 1575, in octavo. 
 The French writer of this book was brother of 
 Michel Noftradamus, author of a book of wretch- 
 ed verfes, that acquired him the reputation of 
 a prophet ; and the vulgar of France Mill con- 
 fult his book, and find wonderful prophecies in 
 it. The work of his brother John, here re- 
 gistered, is fcarcely to be found in the original 
 French, and Giudici's Italian tranflation is, in 
 many places fcarcely intelligible*, and mod 
 
 wretchedly 
 
 X
 
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 wretchedly printed. Crefcimbeni has corrected 
 it much, increafed with new Lives, explained 
 with good notes, and printed I do not remem- 
 ber in what town of Italy. A true poet will 
 find this book very delightful to read. 
 La Vita di Torquato Taffb, fcricta da Giambat- 
 tifta Manso. In Venezia, 1621, in duodecimo. 
 Vita del Cavaliere Giambattifta Maiino, di Giam- 
 battifta Bajacca. InVenezia, 1635, i duo- 
 decimo. 
 Elogi di Uomini Letterati, fcritti da Lorenzo 
 Crasso, with cuts. In Venezia, per Combi 
 c la Nod, 1 666, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 Teatro di Uomini Letterati, deli* Abate Girolamo ' 
 Ghillini. In Venezia, 1647, 2 v0 k m 
 quarto. 
 Le Vite degli Arcadi illuftri, fcricte da diverfi 
 Autori. The Lives of the Arcadians, written 
 by fever 'al Authors. In Roma, nella Stamperia 
 di Antonio de' Rofli, 1708, in quarto, with 
 cuts. 
 
 Thefe Arcadians, or Arcadian (hepherds, are 
 a Society (an Academy we call it in Italy) of 
 poets, eftablifhed in Rome many years ago. . 
 
 I fafti confolari dell' Accademia Fiorentina di Sal- 
 vino Salvini. In Firenze, 171 7, in quarto. 
 This Sal-vino was brother of the moil learned 
 Antonmaria Salvini, named in its place. 
 
 Le Vite de' Pontefici di Antonio Ciccarelli, 
 (with cuts.) In Roma, per il Bafa, 1588, in 
 quarto. 
 
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 La Prima Parte delle Vite overo fatti memorabili 
 di alcuni Papi e di tutii i Cardinali pafifati, di 
 Girolamo Garimberti Vefcovo di Gallefe. 
 In Venezia, preflb il Gioiito, 1568* in quarto. 
 This book is very fcarce, becaufe, a few days 
 after it was publifhed, the printer was prohi- 
 bited to fell ir, and ordered to deftroy the re* 
 maining copies. 
 
 Le Vice di Leone X. e di Adriano VI. Pontefici, 
 e del Gtrdinale Pompeo Colonna, ferine per 
 Paolo Giovio e tradotte da Lodovico Djme- 
 nichi. In Venezia, prciTo Giovanni de* Roffi, 
 1557, inoclavo. 
 
 Le Vite de' Vcfcovi di Pavia di Antonio Maru 
 Spelt a. In Pavia, 1597, in quarto. 
 
 Vita del Padre Domenico di S. Tomafo, detto 
 prima Sultano Ofmanno, Figlio d* lbraim Im- 
 perator de' Turchi, di Ottavio BtrLGARtNi. 
 The Life of Father Domenico of St. TbomaSs 
 Order, firft called Sultan Of man Ottoman, Son of 
 Ibrahim, Emperor of the Turks, ty ore. In 
 Napoli, 1689, in quarto. 
 This is a very curious book. 
 
 Iftoria ddla Papefla Gbvanna. In Ferrara> 1487. 
 A very filly book* and it is piiy that Ferdinand 
 Mafon, in his journey th;ough Italy, did not 
 fee ir. He would have had Tome more foolifh 
 anecdotes to g'we his countrymen about that 
 pretended female Pope. 
 
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 f /iA M */, 5w? %A >/.s* a* v>^ XV 5> A -J 5-/.< 5w? 5>.v l 5j,\ 5>.< &S &,? SW ?>.< % &? % ; 
 
 Storici Greci e Latini tradotti in Italiano. 
 
 Gr^ and Latin Hiftorians tranjlated into 
 Italian. 
 
 B 
 
 E F O R E I proceed to regifter thefe books, 
 I muft inform the reader, that the famous 
 Gabriel Giolito of Trir.o, (a little town in Mon- 
 ferrato) a printer in Venice, with the help of 
 Tomafo Porcaccbi, a very learned man, collected 
 as many tranflations of the Greek and Latin hi- 
 ftorians as there were in his time, and paid large 
 fums to many fcholars for t ran dating thofe that 
 were wanting, to which he added other works of 
 learned Italians relating to the Greek hiftory by 
 way of fupplement and explanation, and thefe 
 tranflations and works he printed under the 
 whimfical divifion of Collana Greca and 
 Collana Latina. Collana in Italian fignifies 
 a Necklace^ but here Giolito meant that neck- 
 lace of gold adorned with rings and jewels Cin 
 Italian Anelli e Gioje) which the Dukes of Bur- 
 gundy gave in ancient times to the knights of 
 the Golden Fleece. Therefore his collection is 
 divided into as many Rungs and Jtzveh as there 
 are authors. I fhall here begin with the Collana 
 Greca^ and proceed to fet down the titles of 
 thefe books in that fame order that I find them 
 registered by Nicola Francefco Haym in his Cata- 
 logue of fear ce Italian Books. But I muft not 
 
 omit
 
 The'lTALlAN LIBRARY. 195 
 
 Omit to fay that many of the Anelli e Gioje 
 were printed by other printers, perhaps afib- 
 ciated with Giolito. 
 ll Primo Anello della Co'lana Greca e, Ditte.Can- 
 diotto e Darete Frigio della Guerra Trojana 
 tradotti per Tomafo Porcacchi. In Vcne- 
 zia, preflb Gabriel Giolico de* Ferrari, 1570, 
 in quarto. 
 
 There is another tranflation of this book, the 
 tranflator unknuwn, printed in Venezia, al 
 Segno della Sibilla, 154.3, in octavo 5 but Por- 
 cacchi* s> is the belt. 
 
 // Secondo Anello. Erodoto Alicarnafleo delle 
 Guerre de* Greci e de' Perfi, tradotto per il 
 Conte Matteo Maria Bojardo. In Venezia* 
 preflb Ldio Builetto, 1565, in octavo. 
 This tranflation is mich valued, though not 
 ftrictly Tufcan, and full of obfolete words. 
 They fay it is very literal. There are other 
 editions of it ; but the above belongs to the 
 Collana. 
 
 Bojardo undertook to tranflate this father of 
 hiftory at the defire of Hercules I. of Efte, 
 fecond duke of Ferrara. Many learned men 
 then adorned his court, and that they might fa- 
 tisfy the noble inclination of the duke who was 
 wholly turned to intllectua! pleasures, fet about 
 making verfions from the Greek and Latin. 
 Thus cou't Bojardo, betides Herodotus, tianflated 
 Ibe Life of Cyrus by .Xenophon, and the Golden 
 Afs by Lucius Apulejus. Pietro Candida tranf- 
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 lated Jppianus on the Roman Civil Wars. Ni- 
 colaus Leonicenus, the duke's phyfician, tranf- 
 lated Dion and Procopius on the Gothick War. 
 Another tranflated the firft fix books of Jofe- 
 phus on the Judaick War ; another Diodorus ; 
 and others, other things. 
 
 Porcacchi fays, that there is a printed tranfla- 
 tion by Remigio Fiorentino % who was as learned 
 as Bojardo, and writ ftiil better profe than him ; 
 but criticks think it a miftake, fince the book 
 is not to be found. 
 
 // Terzo Anello. Tucidide Iftorico Greco, delle 
 Guerre fatte da i Popoli della Morea e gli Ate- 
 niefi, tradotto dal Greco per Erancefco di Soldo 
 Strozzi Fiorentino. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, 1563, in quarto. 
 
 This is as noble tranflaiion as any of the col* 
 lection. 
 
 11 Quarto Anello. Le Opere di Scnofonte, tra- 
 dotte dal Greco da Marc* Antonio Gandini, 
 con akune Annoiazioni neccfiarie per 1' intel 
 ligenza di tutta 1* Opera. In Venezia, preffo 
 Pietro Dufinelli. 
 
 This is alfo a very good tranflation. Gandini 
 was of Trevigi, a city in the Venetian domi- 
 nions. But I muft not omit other tranflators of 
 Xenophons works, and other editions. 
 
 La Vita di Ciro, tradotta da Jacopo Poggio. In 
 Fircnze, peri Giunti, 1521, in octavo, very 
 elegantly tranflated. 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 197 
 
 Poggio Bracciolini tranflated this work from the 
 Greek into Latin, and Jacopo turned his Latin 
 into Italian. 
 Senofonte delta Vita di Ciro Re de' Perfi, tra- 
 dotto per Lodovico Domenichi. In Venezia, 
 per il Giolito, 154-8, in octavo. 
 I Fatti de* Greci di Senofonte, tradotti per il Do- 
 menichi. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1548, 
 in octavo. 
 L' Opere Morali di Senofonte, tradotte per il 
 Dome nic hi. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 
 1547, in octavo. 
 
 Some people bind the above three books toge- 
 ther, and fubftitute them inftead of Gandini's 
 translation for the Quarto Anello. 
 Le Guerre de' Greet fcritte da Senofonte nelle 
 . quali fi continua la Scoria di Tucidide, tradotte 
 dal Greco neil' Laliano da Francefco di Soldo 
 Strozzi. In Venezia, 1550, in quarto. 
 Printer unknown. 
 
 At the end of this book Strozzi gives us a lift 
 of a hundred and forty pafifages mifunderftood 
 by Domenicbfs in his tranflation of the fame 
 work. 
 
 77 Quinto Anello. Polibio Iftorico Greco delle 
 Impreffedc' Greci, degli Afiatici e de' Romani, 
 con due Frammenti delle Repubbliche e della 
 Grandezza di Roma, e con gli undici libri ri- 
 trovati di nuovo, tradotti per Lodovico Do- 
 menichi. I Venezia, preflb Gabriel Giolito 
 de Ferrari, 1564, in quarto. 
 
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 198 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Some criticks affirm, that this is a tranflation 
 from the Latin verfion of Polikius, and not 
 from the original Greek, which is very odd, 
 fince Domenichi was a very good Greek fcholar; 
 but, as he worked for br, ad, was apr, I think, 
 to hurry his works too much. 
 
 JlSefi) Anello. Iftoria, ovvero Libreria Iftorica 
 di Diodoro Siciinno delle Memorie antiche, 
 non pur de* Barbari innanzi e dopo la Guerra 
 Trojana, ma ancora de' Greci e de' Romani, 
 tradotta di Greco in Latino da diverfi Autori, 
 e nella noftra Lingua da Francefc ; Baldeldi. 
 In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1575, % vol. in 
 quarto. 
 
 Though Baldelli hints here, thai he tranflated 
 it from the Latin, yet the tranflation is fo true 
 to the original Greek, that fome people think 
 the printer made fome unaccountable miftake 
 in the tide. 
 
 There is another good tranflation of Diodorus, 
 printed in Fiorenza, per Filippo Giunti, 1526, 
 in octavo, which contains only fix books, the 
 tranflator unknown ; but he was certainly one 
 of the courtiers of the duke of Ferrara named 
 above. 
 
 J7 Settimo Anello. Dionifio Alicarnaflfeo delle Cofe 
 Antichedella Cit adi Roma, tradotto in Tof- 
 cano da Francefco Venturi Fiorentino. In 
 Venezia, per Nicolo Boscarini, 1545, in 
 quarto. 
 
 This
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 199 
 
 This moft excellent tranflation was made from 
 a manufcript preferved in the Medicean library 
 at Florence. 
 
 V Ottavo Anello. Di Flavio Giufeppe delle An- 
 tichita de' Giudei, Jibri 20, tradotti nuova- 
 mente da Francefco Baldelli. In Venezia, 
 preflb Giovanni e Giampaolo Gioliti de* Fer- 
 rari, 1582, vol. the firft, in quarto. 
 
 Di Flavio Giufeppe della Guerra de' Giudei, iibri 
 8, libri due contra Appione, e dell* Imperio 
 della Ragione, tradotti nuovamente da Fran- 
 cefco Baldelli, 1583, vol. the fecond. 
 This tranflation, which is mod accurate and 
 elegant, confirms what was hinted above that 
 Baldelli^ tranQated from the original Greek, 
 and not from the Latin tranflations. 
 
 A good Italian tranflation of the Judaick Wars 
 and Antiquities is alfo that of Pietro Lauro. 
 Printed in Venezia, 1544, in octavo. 
 
 Some collectors of the Collana books add this to 
 the feventh Anello. 
 
 Hiftoria di Egefippo, tra i Criftiani Scrittori an- 
 tichiffimo, delle yalorofe Imprefe flute da Giu- 
 dei nell' Afifedio di Gerufalemme ; e come fu 
 abbattuta quella Citta e molt' altre del Paefe, 
 tradotto da Pietro Lauro Modanefe. In Ve- 
 nezia, peril Tramezzino, 1548, in octavo. 
 
 77 Nono Anello. Vite di Plutarco Cheroneo degl' 
 
 Uomini illuflri Greci e Romani nuovamente 
 
 tradotte per Lodovico Domenichi ed altri, 
 
 diligentemente confrontate co' Tefti Greci per 
 
 O 4 Lionardo
 
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 Lionardd Chini, &c. In Venezia, preflb Ga- 
 briel Giolito dt' Ferrari, 1568, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 Giolito printed this work in. the year 1560, but 
 the criticks finding fault with the tranflation, he 
 had it mod accurately revifed and corrected, 
 and printed it again to the great fatis fail ion of 
 the ftudious. Plutarch's lives had been tranf- 
 lated by Battijla Akjfandro Jaconello^ an J printed 
 in Aqulla, per Ma tiro Adam de Ro r uvil Ala- 
 manno, 1482, in folio. A tranflaiion by no 
 means contemptible. 
 To this Anelh the colL&ors unite the following 
 
 wo'ks by Plutarch. 
 Opere Morali di Plutarco, tradotte da Lodovico 
 Domenichi. In Lucca, per Vincenzo Buf- 
 drago, 1560, in octavo. 
 Pell* Amor de' Genitori, tradotto da Giulio Bal- 
 
 lino. In Venezia, 1564, in octavo. 
 OperetteXI. da Traduttore incerto. In Venezia, 
 
 1569, in octavo. 
 Quefti oni, tradotte da Pier Lauro Modanefe. In 
 
 Venezia, 1551, in octavo. 
 Li Apofte.;.:ni, tradotti per Bernardo Guai.an- 
 di. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1566, in quarto. 
 AH the moral wo r ks of Plutarch have alfo been 
 well trandated into Italian by Marcantonio Gan- 
 dini and o.hers, and printed in Venezia, per 
 Fioravanti Prati, 1614, 2 vol. in quarto; and 
 per lo Comb , 1624, in folio. 
 There is a verfion (fays Apoftolo Zeno in his 
 potes on Fontaninis Eloquenza Italiana) of the 
 
 fecond
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 201 
 
 fccond volume of Plutarch's Lives by Miffer 
 Giuko Bordone of Padua, printed in Vhegia, 
 per Nicolo d' Aritfotele detto Zoppino, 1525, 
 in quarto, quoted by Mattaire in the fifth vo- 
 lume of his Typographick Anna!s. The enemies 
 of the renowned Julius C<efar Scaiiger affirm, 
 chat he was of the family of this Bordone, and 
 not defcended from the Scaligers princes of Ve- 
 rona, as he boafted. 
 
 77 D:cimo Anello. Iftoria dclle guerre efterne de' 
 Romani di Appiano Aleflfandrino, tradotta da 
 Alefiandro Braccio Fiorentino, riveduca e 
 corretta da Lodovico Dolce. In Venezia, per 
 il Giolito, 1559, 3 vo '* m duodecimo. 
 The third volume has been wholly tranflated 
 by Dolce ; the firft and fecond volume by Brac- 
 cio are in my opinion the mod pleating trunca- 
 tion from the Greek that we have in the lan- 
 guage. Others give the preference to Baldello's ; 
 and others to others, The edition here quoted 
 is the bell. 
 
 JJ Undecimo Anello. Arriano di Nicomedia, chia- 
 mato nuovo Senofonte, dei fatti del Magno 
 AlefTandro Re di Macedonia, nuovamente di 
 Greco tradotto in Iraliano da Pietro Lauro 
 Modonefe. In Venezia, per Michel Trame- 
 zino, j 544, in octavo. 
 
 There is alfo, 11 Periplo di Ariano, tradotto da 
 Giarobattifta Ramusio. In Venezia, 1588, 
 in folio, but it does not belong to the Collana. 
 
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 102 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 11 Duodecimo Anello. Dione Caffio Niceo Iftorico 
 Greco, de' Fatti de' Romani, nuovamente 
 nella noftra Lingua ridotto da Francefco Bal- 
 delli. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1565 
 and 1566, in quarto. 
 
 To this book they add in the collection, the 
 Epitome della Iftoria Romana di Dione Niceo di 
 25 Imperotori Romani da Pompeo Magno fino ad 
 Alejandro Figliuolo di Mammea 9 tradotto per 
 Francefco Baldelli. In Venezia, per Ga- 
 briel Giolito, 1562 and 1586, in quirto. 
 Dion Caffius on the Actions of the Romans, has 
 alfo been well tranflated by Nicolo Leoniceno, 
 the moft famous phyfician of his age, and 
 printed in Venezia, per Nicolo d* Ariftotele 
 1532, in quarto; and per Giovanni Farri, 
 1542, in octavo ; but the Collana-book is Ban- 
 dello's cranflation. 
 The following books are added to compleat the 
 
 collection. 
 Della Geografia di Strabone, di Greco tradotta in 
 Volgare Italiano da Alfonfo Bonacciuoli, 2 
 vol. in quarto. The firft in Venezia, per 
 Francefco Sanefe, 1562 ; the fecond in Fer- 
 rara, by the fame, 1565. 
 Defcrizione della Grecia di Paufania, nella quale 
 fi contiene l" Origine di Effa, il Sito, le Citta, 
 la Religione antica, e le Guerre fatte da que' 
 Popoli, tradotta in volgare, by the fame Bo- 
 nacciuoli. In Manxova, per Francefco O- 
 fanna, 1593, in quarto. 
 
 Bonac-
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 203 
 
 Bonacciuoli was carver (in Italian, fcalco) to the 
 above-named duke Hercules of Ferrara. 
 
 ft is the opinion of our criticks, that thcfe two 
 tranflations come nearer to the Greek originals 
 than any of the Larin tranflations extant. 
 
 Geografia, cioe Defcrizione univerfale della Terra, 
 partita in 2 volumi, nel primo de' quali fi con- 
 tengono gli otto libri della Geografia di Claudio 
 Tolomeo, nuovamente con fingolare Audio 
 rifcontrati e corretti da Gianantonio Maginu 
 Nel fecondo vi fono pofle 27, Tavole Antiche 
 di Tolomeo e sy, aitre moierne, &c. Opera 
 dal Latino nell' Ira'iano tradotta da Lionardo 
 Cernotti. In Venezia, per Giambattifta 
 e Giorgio Galignani, 1598, in folio. 
 
 This is the belt edition of Ptolemy, whofe 
 tables have been diligently engraved by the fa- 
 mous Girolamo Pcrro, 
 
 Ptolemy's Geography was alfo tranflated by Pier 
 Andrea Mattioli, the botanift, printed in 
 Venezia, 1548, in octavo, and then revifed 
 and fupp ied by Ruscelli with explanations, 
 in Venezia, 1574, in quarto, then tranflated 
 from the original Greek by the fame Rufcelli^ 
 with new explanations and cuts. In Venezia, 
 per il Valgrifi, 1599, * n i uart0 * 
 Porcaccbi would have added to the Anelli of the 
 Collana Greca feveral Greek authors, as Hero* 
 dianus, Proeopius, Zonara, Nicetas and Nice- 
 phorus ; but, on confidering that they only filled 
 
 up
 
 204 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 up the vacuums left in the Roman hiftory, he 
 had them inlerted in the Collana Latino. ; there- 
 fore I mail proceed to regifter the Gioje y which 
 make up the Collana Greca. 
 
 Gioja Prima. II primo volume delle Cagioni delle 
 Guerre antiche, di Tomafo Porcacchi. In 
 Venezia, per il Giolito, 1566, in quarto. 
 Porcacchi prom i fed more volumes of this work, 
 but, by fome accident, was hindered from con- 
 tinuing ir. 
 
 Gioja Seconda. Onofandro Platonico, dell' Otti- 
 mo Capitano Generale e del fuo Ufficio, tra- 
 dotto dal Greco per Fabio Cotta Romano. 
 In Venezia, per il Giolito, in octavo; and 
 1546, in quarto. 
 
 II primo Difcorfo di Afcanio Centorio fopra 1' 
 Ufficio d' un Capitano Generale d' Efercito. 
 In Venezia, preffo il Giolito, 1558, in quarto. 
 
 11 fecondo Difcorfo di Afcanio Centorio, nel 
 quale fi tratta delle cofe appartenenti alia Guerra. 
 In Venezia, prefib il Giolito, 1558, in quarto. 
 
 Gioja Herza. II terzo Difcorfo di Guerra di Af- 
 canio Centorio. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1558, in quarto, 
 
 II quarto Difcorfo di Guerra di Afcanio Cento- 
 rio. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1559, in 
 quarto. 
 I mentioned Centorio in another place. 
 
 Gioja Quarta. II Soldato, di Domenico Mora 
 
 Bolognefe. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1559, 
 
 in quarto. 
 
 Fontanini
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 205 
 
 Fontanini fays, that the language of this writer, 
 ha del Grigione piu che dell* Italiano, is more 
 Grifon than Italian -, but it is not true. The 
 book is not remarkable for elegance, but is no 
 bad Italian. 
 
 Gioja Quinta. II quinto ed ultimo Difcorfo di 
 Guerra di Alcanio Centorio. In Venezia, per 
 il Giolito, 1562, in quarto. 
 The five difcourfes of Centorio are to be found 
 all bound together in one volume, and it is the 
 beft printed book ofGioIito's numberlefs editions. 
 
 Gioja Sejla. I Difcorfi di Guerra di Bernardino 
 Rocca. In Venezia, per Damiano Zenaro, 
 1582, in quarto. 
 
 La feconda e terza Parte del Governo della Mi- 
 lizia di Bernardino Rocca. In Venezia, per 
 il Giolito, 1570, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 La Milizia Romana di Polibio, Tito Livio, e 
 Dionigi AlicarnafTeo, per Francefco Patrizi, 
 with notes and cuts. In Ferrara, per il Mana- 
 relli, 1583, in quarto. 
 
 Gioja Settima. I Paralelli ed Efempi fimili di To- 
 mafo Porcacchi. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1566, in quarto. 
 
 Paralelli Militari di Francefco Patzizi, ne* quali 
 fi fa Paragone delle Milizie antiche con le mo- 
 derne. In Roma, per Luigi Zanetri, 1594, 
 2 vol. in folio. 
 
 Gioja Ottava. Difcorfo della Religione antica de* 
 i Romani, della Caftramentazione, e difciplina 
 
 militare.
 
 2 o6 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 militare, Bagni ed Efercizi, diGuglielmo de 
 Choul, tradotto da Gabriel Simeoni. In 
 Lione, per Gjglielmo Rovilio, 1560, in folio. 
 This book is much valued for its beauty of 
 paper, character?, and drawings of figures and 
 medals, and (fill keeps a diftinguifhed place in 
 the clofets of the curious. But as to the eru- 
 dition contained in it, (fays Zeno) it ought to 
 be read and confidered with judgement, efpecially 
 that part which treats of medals, among which 
 there are many fpurious, and many ill- read and 
 ill-explained. 
 
 Polibio, del Modo di Accampare, tradotto dal 
 Greco per Filippo Strozzi , della Caftramen- 
 tazione di Bartolomeo Cavalcanti ; Compa- 
 razione dell* Armatura, e dell* Ordinanza de' 
 Romani e de' Macedoni, di Polibio, tradotta 
 by the fame Cavalcanti ; $celta degli Apotteg- 
 mi di Plutarco, per lo Strozzi -, Eliano de' 
 Noir.i e degli Ordini militari di Leone Jmpera- 
 tore, tradotti di Greco per il Car ani. In Fi- 
 renze, per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1552, in 
 pctavo. 
 
 Of this Strezzi I know nothing. 
 Cavalcanti was born in Florence in the year 
 1503. He was one of the moft zealous de- 
 fenders of his country's liberty againft the fa- 
 mily of the Medici. Alexander de Medici, 
 having been firft declared chief (Capo; and 
 then duke of the Florentine Commonwealth, 
 Cavalcanti was not profcribed or banilhed as 
 
 many
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 207 
 
 many others were on that occafion, and his 
 name is not read in the lift of them preferved 
 by Varchi in his hiftory. But after duke Alex- 
 ander was murdered, and the wife ft of the 
 people raifed Cofmo to the fupreme govern- 
 ment of the ftate, Cavakanti chofe to go away 
 with thofe that were out-lawed, though he 
 might have been (till great amongft his country- 
 men, being beloved by Cofmo, and even his 
 relation. He died in Padua in the year 1562 
 and was buried in the church of S:. Francis. 
 His fon Qiovanni writ the fepulchral infcription, 
 ftill to be read on his tomb. I mall mention 
 his famous Rhetorick in its place. 
 Car am was of Reggio in Lombard y. Befides 
 this and other Italian works, he printed alfo 
 fome Latin epigrams. 
 Eliano del Modo di Mettere in Ordinanza, tra- 
 dotta dal Greco da Francefco Ferrosi. In 
 Venezia, per il Gioli'o, 155 1, in octavo. 
 
 Trattato brieve dello Schierare in Ordinanza gli 
 Eferciti, di Leone Imperatore, tradotto di 
 Filippo Pigafetta. In Venezia, per Fran- 
 cefco de' Francefchi, 15^6, in quarto. 
 Pigafetta met with fome good manufcript of 
 the original after he had printed his tranflation, 
 he then corrected his work, and re- printed it 
 in 1602, under the title of Documenti di Guerra. 
 
 Gioja 'Nona. Imprefe, Stratagemmi, ed Error} 
 
 militari, di Bernardino Rocca. In Venezia, 
 
 peril Giolico, 1566, in quarto. 
 
 Gli
 
 208 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Gli Stratagemmi di Pollieno, tradotti dal Greco 
 per Lelio Carcani. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, 1552, in octavo. There is another good 
 tranflation of this book, by Nicolo Mutoni. 
 In Venezia, 1552, in octavo. 
 
 I Stratagemmi militari, di Sefto Giulio Frontino, 
 tradotti per Marc' Antonio Gandino, con una 
 Gijnta tratta da moderni Storici. In Venezia, 
 preflb Bolognino Zaltiero, 1574, in quarto. 
 There is another tranflation of this book by 
 Francefco Lucio Durantino, in Venezia, per 
 Alvife de Torris, 1543* in octavo. 
 
 Gioja Decima. Le Orazioni militari raccolte per 
 Remigio Fiorentino da tuttigP Iftorici Greci e 
 Latini, antichi e moderni. In Venezia, per il 
 Giolito, 1560, in quarto. There is a former 
 edition by the fame Giolito, 1557 not f Sd 
 as this. 
 
 Orazioni in Materia civile e criminale, raccolte 
 per Remigio Fiorentino da tutti gP Iftorici 
 Greci e Latini, antichi e moderni. 
 
 Tutte le Orazioni d' I foe rate, tradotte per Pietro 
 Carrario. In Venezia, per Michel Trame- 
 zino, 1555, in octavo. 
 Carrario was a phyfician of Padua. 
 
 Le Filippiche di Demoftene, tradotte da Felice 
 Figliucci. In Roma, preflb Vincenzo Val- 
 grifi, 1 55 1, in oclavo. 
 
 This is one of the beft tranflations we have 
 from the Greek, and its author was ih&tAkJJio 
 
 Figliucci,
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 209 
 
 pigliucci) tranflator of our Catechifm, regiftred 
 
 in its place. He changed his name of Felice 
 
 for that of Aleflio> when he turned Dominican 
 
 friar. 
 
 Some add to this Gioja the following books. 
 
 Demetrio Falcreo della Locuzione, volgarizzato 
 da Pietro Segni, con poftille altefto, edefem- 
 pli Tofcani confrontati a' Greci. In Firenze, 
 per i Giunti, 1603, in quarto. This is no 
 contemptible tranflation -, and a tolerable one 
 is that by Francefco Panigarola, printed in 
 Venice, 1609, in quarto* 
 
 Rettorica d' Ariftotele> tradotta da Annibal Caro. 
 In Venezia al Segno della Salamandra, 1570, 
 in quarto, 
 A very valuable book. 
 
 La Republica di Platone* tradotta dal Greco da 
 Pamfilio Fiorimbene. In Venezia, per il 
 Giolito e Fratelli, 1554, in octavo. 
 
 I Funerali Antichi di Tomafo Porcacchi (with 
 cuts by Girolamo Porro.) In Venezia, per il 
 Galignani, 1574, in folio. 
 
 Dell* Architettura di Gio. Antonio Rusconi con 
 fefianta (e piu) figure difegnate dal medeiimo 
 fecondo i Precetti di Vitruvio. In Venezia, 
 appreflb i Gioliti, 1590, in folio, firft edition. 
 A fcarce and coftly book. The editions that 
 followed this are not much valued in compari- 
 fon of the firft, which is called in Porcaccbt*% 
 index of the Collana books, Gioja Preziofa t a 
 rare jewel \ 
 
 P 4
 
 2io The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 
 
 It feems to me that the chief intention of Giolittf 
 and Porcacchi, in fcheming, collecting, and 
 printing thefe two CoHana's, was to furnifh a 
 foldier with a library, becaufe they did not for- 
 get any of the military treatifes that it was 
 poflible for them to get together. What adds 
 ftrength to this my conjecture is, that in Por- 
 cacchi 1 s index of the Collana Greca (which is in 
 Ditte's and Darete's tranflation) are alfo re- 
 giftered all the Italian books on duelling. But 
 as the greateft part of thefe books are now 
 fallen into contempt and oblivion, therefore I 
 fhall not enlarge this my library, by adding any 
 of them to thofe that I regiftred in another 
 place, but (hall come directly to the 
 COLLANA LATIN A. 
 Anello Prima. Giuflino Iftorico nelle Iftorie di 
 Trogo Pompeo, tradotto per Tomafo Por- 
 cacchi. In Venezia,. preffo Gabriel Giolito, 
 1 56 1, in quarto. 
 
 The fame book was alfo tranflated by Girolamo 
 Squarciafico. Printed in Venezia, 1477, 
 in folio ; and by Bartolomeo Zucchi, printed 
 there, 1590, in quarto. 
 Squarciafico or Squarzafico was of Alexandria, 
 a cown once in the Milanefe, now belonging to 
 the king of Sardinia. His tranflation is more 
 valued for iu.antiquity than elegance. Yet he 
 was a very learned man for his time ; and there 
 is a Latin preface of his to the Italian Bible, 
 tranflated by Nicoli de Makrmi, (printed in 
 
 Venezia,
 
 The Italian library: 211 
 
 Venezia, per Gabriel di Pietro Trevifano) in 
 which preface he fays, that he affifted Malermi 
 in that tranflation. Of Zucchi I know nothing, 
 but that he was of Monza, a town in the Mi- 
 lanefe, and that he writ a yery fine hand. 
 
 Emilio Probo (o fia Cornelio Nepote) degl' Uo- 
 mini illuftri, tradotto da Remigio Fiorentino. 
 In Venezia, prefTo il Giolito, 1550, in octavo. 
 
 Anello Secondo. Quinto Curzio de' Fatti d' Alef* 
 fandro Magno, tradotto da Pietro Candido. 
 In Milano, 1488, in folio; and in Firenze, 
 prefio i Giunti, 1530, in octavo. 
 This Candido, as I obferved above, was one of 
 the numerous learned courtiers of the fecond 
 duke of Ferrara. His tranflation is good ; but 
 the Collana book is the next. 
 
 Quinto Curzio de Fatti d' AlefTandro Magno Re 
 de* Macedoni, tradotto per Tomafo Porcac- 
 chi con alcune annotazioni, dichiarazioni, e 
 avvertimenti ; e con una Lettera d' AlefTandro 
 ad Ariftotele del Sico dell* India. In Venezia, 
 prefTo il Giolito, 1559, in quarto. 
 This is one of the mofl elegant and pleafing 
 tranflations that I ever read. 
 
 Iftoria de' Succeffori di AlefTandro Magno, per 
 Mambrin Roseo. In Venezia, 1570, in octavo. 
 This Rofeo would have been no bad writer in 
 Italian, had he been lefs prolix, and abftained 
 from fome inaccuracies in his language, which, 
 in my opinion, efcaped him for want of read- 
 ing his works twice. 
 
 P 2 Anello
 
 212 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Anello Terzo. Le Deche della Iftoria Romana d* 
 Tito Livio, tradotto in Lingua Tofcana da Ja- 
 copo Nardi Fiorentino, con moke illuftra- 
 zionu In Venezia, per i Giunti, 1547, and 
 a better edition in 1554, and a third, 1575, in 
 which there is a fupplement to the fecond Deca 
 by FrancefcoTuRCHi. 
 
 Apojlolo Zens laments the fate of this excellent 
 writer Jacopo Nardi a Florentine, that after 
 having (perhaps unjuftlyj been banifhed his 
 country, his works were alfo banifhed from the 
 vocabulary della Crufca. The Academicians 
 quoted him but once under the word pronun- 
 zrare. He certainly deferved not fuch con- 
 tempt, if it was out of contempt that they 
 neglected him. His tranflation of Livy is a 
 molt excellent performance. 
 
 There is another very old tranflation of Livy, by 
 Rugero Ferrario. In Roma,, TEdibus Maxim. 
 1472, in folio. 
 
 Bembo and fome others fay, that Boccac'w 
 has alfo tranflaced the fir ft Decade. It was a 
 great lofs to the Italians, that Eoccacio did not 
 live long enough to tranflate the whole work \ 
 
 Lucio Floro de' fatti de' Romani, tradotto per 
 Gio. Domenico Tarsia. In Venezia, 1548, 
 in octavo. 
 
 'Tarfia was a prieft of Florence, and the few 
 things we have left of his, are not inelegant., 
 
 Iftorie Romane di Lucio Floro, con le notizie dS 
 Lucio Ampelio, tradotte da Santi Conti, col 
 
 Riftretto
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. n$ 
 
 Riftretto dell' imprefe de* Romani di Sefto 
 Rufo, e la Cronologia di Domenico Benet- 
 Petti. In Roma, per glj Andreoli, 1672, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Conti was of Rocca Contrada. We have al- 
 moft nothing left of his, except this tranfla- 
 tion, which is not bad. Benedettfs chronology 
 goes from the foundation of Rome down to 
 Valentinian I. 
 
 La prima Guerra Cartaginefe di Leonardo Ars- 
 tino, without the name of the tranflator. In 
 Venezia, per il Giolito, 1545. in octavo. 
 The learned Leonardo writ in Latin ; the tranf- 
 lation I have not feen. 
 
 4ne\lo Quarto. Compendio di Sefto Rufo con la 
 Cronica di Caffiodoro, de* fatti de' Romani, 
 della Dignita de' Confoii e degl* Imperatori, e 
 dell* accrefcimento dell' Imperio, da Lodovico 
 Dolce tradotto ed ampliato. In Venezia, 
 per il Giolico, 1561, in quarto. 
 
 As I have not feen this book, fo I do not under- 
 hand what Dolce means by the word ampliati, 
 increafed. I fuppofe he has added to the ori- 
 ginals out of his own head what he thought 
 wanting, to compleat Rufus's epitome and Cap- 
 Jiodorus's chronicle. 
 
 |ftoria de s Romani di Rufo, tradotta da Vincenzo 
 Belprato, con 1* Afiioco del difpregio della 
 Morte di Platone, tradotto dal medefimo. In 
 Jurenze, preflb i Giunti, 1550, in octavo* 
 
 P 3 Vincenz*
 
 414 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Vincenzo or Gianvincenzo Belprato, count of 
 
 Averfa, was a Neapolitan, and his noble family 
 
 went to fettle there from Valentia with k;ing 
 
 Alfonfo I. of Aragon. 
 Valeno Mafiimo de' detti e fatti memorabili, tra- 
 
 dotto per Giorgio Dati Fiorentino. In Ve- 
 
 nezia, per Michel Tramezino, 1547, in octavo; 
 
 and 1551, in octavo, without the name of the 
 
 printer. 
 Anello Quinto. I Commentari di Giulio Cefare, 
 
 tradotti per Dante Popoleschi. In Firenze, 
 
 1518. in quarto, 
 
 The name of Popolefcbi, a Florentine, is al- 
 moft unknown, becaufe he writ and tranQated 
 nothing (as I thfok) but thefe Commentaries. I 
 wifh he had writ and tranflated more. 
 
 I Commentari di Giulio Cefare, tradotti da Agof- 
 tino Ortica, iftoriati e poftillati delli Nomi 
 moderni (with cuts.) In Milano, 15 18, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Ortica was a Genoefe. His tranflation is far 
 from being fo elegant as that of Popolefcbi. 
 
 I Commentari di Giulio Cefare, tradotti per Fran- 
 cefco Baldelli. In Venezia, 1528, in octavo. 
 
 I Commentari di Giulio Cefare (without the name 
 of the tranflator, who was Baldelli) infieme con 
 A. Irzio, e con illuftrazioni e difegni di Andrea 
 Palladio. In Venezia, preflb Pier Francefchi, 
 1575; e per il Foglietti, 1618, in quarto. 
 The famous architect Palladio illuftrated this 
 , elegant tranflation with a long preface, in which
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 215 
 he treats of the troops, arms, military difci- 
 pline of the Romans, and departments of the 
 antient Gaul. Befides he adorned it with many 
 plates, defigned, for the greateft part, by his 
 two fons Leonidas and Horace, which plates he 
 was obliged to finifh himfelf, becaufe they both 
 died young, within the fpace of two months 
 one after another, before they could have fi- 
 niftied them themfelves. This therefore is the 
 edition that the collectors of the Collana chufe, 
 if they can find it j if not, they fubfticute Qr- 
 tica's tranflation, . 
 
 Pietro Candida (already named amongfi: fome of 
 the courtiers of duke Alfonfo of Ferrara) was 
 the firit that made Cafarfpeak Italian (fays Zeno ;) 
 but I do not know if his tranllation was ever 
 printed. This Candido turned from Greek into 
 Latin Appianus Alexandrinus, and many other 
 authors. 
 L' Epiftole Famigliari di Cicerone, tradotte da 
 Aldo Manuzio, 1563 and 1566, in octavo. 
 He had firft printed them in 1545 and 1552, 
 in octavo, without his name. 
 The curious will find a full account of the Ma~ 
 H//nnadifTertation by ApoftoloZeno, prefixed to 
 thefe Epifiles reprinted in Venezia, per Francefco 
 Piacentini, 1736, 2 vol, in octavo. There it 
 js faid, that thefe epiftles were only revifed and 
 Corrected, and not tranflated by Aldus Junior ; 
 and Zeno thinks that they were tranflated by 
 Cuido Lotto, or Loglio, of Reggio in Lom- 
 bardy, a man much efteemed by Caro, Doke % 
 P 4 Paok
 
 ferf The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Paolo Manuzio, and by all the Italian learned 
 of that age. See Zend's, reafons for thinking 
 fo in his Notes on Fontaninfs Eloquenza, which 
 are convincing. 
 Le Piftole di Cicerone ad Attico fatte volgari da 
 Matteo Senarega, In Venezia, per Paolo 
 Manuzio, 1555, in octavo. 
 Paolo Manuzio, in a letter prefixed to the Elo- 
 gia clarorum Ugurum, thanking Foglietta for 
 having bettovved one of them on Senarega, calls 
 him Alumnum difcip!in<e mea, prajlanii virum 
 ingenio 9 natum maxlmis rebus , docendi fcribendi- 
 que facilitate nemini prorfus atate nojlra conce- 
 dentcm; and indeed Senirega greatly diftinguifh- 
 cd himfelf in his republick, where he was ones 
 created Doge. 
 
 Saluftio, con alcune altre belle Cofe, volgarizzato 
 per Agoftino Ortica. In Veneziaj per Gior-r 
 gio Rufconi, 151 8, in octavo j and there with-- 
 out name of the printer, 1531 and 1545, in 
 octavo. Saluft'us was alio translated by Lelio 
 Carani, printed in Firenze, in duodecimo; 
 and by Gio. Bernardino Buonifacb Marchefe 
 d* Oria, printed in Firenze, per Lorenzo 
 Torrentino, 1558, in octavo. 
 As thefe three tranflations are all equally good, 
 the collectors give the preference to Torrentino'% 
 edition, only for its being printed in a better 
 letter than the others. 
 
 'jtnello Sefto. Annali di Cornelio Tacito, tradotte 
 4a Giorgio Dati. In Venezia, per Bernardo 
 
 Giunti,
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 217 
 
 Giunti, 1582, in quarto, with a preliminary 
 difcourfe by L,ionardo Salviati. 
 Of Dati by and by. 
 
 U Imperio di Tiberio Cefare fcritco da Cornelio 
 Tacito negli Annali, tradotto da Bernardo Pa- 
 vanzati Bostichi. In Fjrenze, per Filippo 
 Giunti, 1600, in quarto, 
 T^ie fame tranflation was reprinted in Firenze, 
 per PietroNefti, 1637, in folio, together with 
 the original, fome years after the death of 
 Davanzati, who, in a letter to his learned friend 
 Baccio Valoriy fays, that he undertook to tranf- 
 late this author, becaufe there was a French 
 tranflator of Tacitus, who bragged much that 
 the French language was a great deal better 
 than the Italian, being fufceptible of more bre- 
 vity and precifion, and coming nearer to the 
 Greek and Latin in the fyntax, modes of {peak- 
 ing, and harmonious cadences. Davanzati, 
 printing an effay of his tranflation, made ufe of 
 the paper and characters ufed in the edition of 
 the French tranflation, and thus gave an ocular 
 demonftration, that our language is fhorter (if 
 we pleafe to make it fo) than the French by a 
 fourth part. Yet, if Davanzati had obferved, 
 that his own language had reached its point of 
 perfection at leafttwocenturies before the French 
 tongue got out of its infancy, he might have 
 fpared himfelf the trouble of convincing his 
 fanatick antagonift. We had not only almoft 
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 4i$ The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 into Italian before the French tranflation of Ta- 
 citus, but multitudes of epick poems, hiftories, 
 and books of all kinds of profe and poetry of 
 our own. In order to be very laconick, Da- 
 vanzati made ufe of the Florentine dialed, not 
 fcrupling to employ the phrafes and proverbs of 
 the vulgar, when he found them anfwering 
 exactly to the Latin modes ; thus, for the lake 
 of precifion, he has loft dignity ; therefore the 
 generality of the Italians admire more the tranf- 
 fation by Giorgio Dati, who has writ it, asDavan- 
 ' zati himfelf owns, con ampiofiile e facile per ad- 
 dolcire il tefto siftringato e si brufco , that is, with 
 a nobh and eajyjlile, to f wee ten the original fo 
 elofe and fo abrupt. The works of Tacitus were 
 alfo tranflated into Italian by Orazio Gianetti % 
 printed in Venezia, 1604; and in the dialect 
 of Siena by Adriano Politic printed in Venezia, 
 1664, in quarto; and preilb i Giunti, 1618 
 and 1620, in quarto, with explanations and 
 additions. 
 'Ariello Settimo. Le Vite di XII. Cefari di Gajo 
 Suetonio Tranquil lo, tradotte in volgar Fio- 
 rentino da Paolo del Rosso, aggiuntovi \* or- 
 dine di leggere gli Scrittori dell* Iftoria Roma- 
 na di Pietro Angeh da Barga, tradotto da 
 Francefco Serdonati. In Firenze, per Fi- 
 lippo Giunti, 161 1, in oc*lavo. The fame 
 book had been printed many times before with- 
 out Serdonati's addition. 
 Francefco Prifcianefe of Florence, grammarian 
 and printer, generally thought to have been 
 
 the
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 219 
 
 the firft that writ an Italian grammar of the 
 Latin tongue, in a dedicatory letter prefixed to 
 an edition of this book, informs us, that Paolo 
 del Rojjo was his countryman, and Giovane di 
 Lettere e di Giudicio, e molto nelle lingue efcer ci- 
 tato ; that is, a youth of learning and judgment ', 
 and very Jkilful in languages. Angeli^oi Barga, 
 a town in Tufcany, was a great Latin fcholar, 
 as it appears by the original of his little treatife 
 Qn the Method of reading the Writers of Roman 
 Hijlory, which is written in excellent Latin. 
 The few things that we have in print by Serdo- 
 tiati of Florence are written with the greateft 
 purity. In the Medicean library is preferved in 
 manufcript a mod beautiful Collection of Flo- 
 rentine Proverbs, divided in three volumes col 
 lected by this Serdonati. 
 
 Le Vite de* Died Cefari, incominciando dal fine 
 di Suetonio, tradotte da Mambrino Roseo. In 
 Venezia, per il Tramezzino, X544, in octavo. 
 Of Rofeo I fpoke in another place. 
 
 II Libro degl' Uomini illuftri di Gajo Plinio Ce- 
 cilio volgarizzato da Pietro Rangoni. In 
 Siena, 1506, in quarto-, and by Paolo del 
 Rosso, in Lione, 1546, in octavo; and by 
 Dionigi Atanagi, in Venezia, preffo il Gio- 
 lito, 1546, in octavo ; and in Venezia, preffo 
 1 Guerra, 1562, in octavo. 
 Rangoni, del Rojfo, and Atanagi thought that 
 the original of this book was written by 
 flinius 3 Fontanim fays, it was written by 
 
 1 Cornelius
 
 32 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 
 
 Cornelius Nepos-, fome others thought it a 
 work of Suetonius, fome of 'Tacitus, fome of 
 Afcanius Pedianus ; but father Andrea Scoto^ a 
 Jefuit, has proved, that it was written by Au- 
 relius Viclor\ Joannes Albertus Fabritius and 
 Apofiolo Zeno are of the fame opinion. Who 
 Rangoni was I do not know, Paolo del Rojfo I 
 named above, and Atanagi \ mentioned in other 
 places. 
 
 Anello Ottavo. Ifloria di Erodiaao deli' Imperio 
 dopo Marco, tradotta da IncertO." In Firenze, 
 per FilippoGiunta, 1522, in octavo; and by 
 Lelio Caraniy in Venezia ? preffo il GiolitQ^ 
 1552, in octavo. 
 Both thefe tranflations are very good. 
 
 Though Herodianus is a Greek author, as fome of 
 the following, yet he and they have place in the 
 Collana Latina, for a reafon given above. 
 
 Panegirico di Plinio il Giovane a Trajano, vol- 
 garizzato dal Cavaliere Girolamo Ubaldino 
 Malavolti Sanefe. In Roma, per Bartolor 
 meo Zanetti, 1628, in quarto; and by Gio, 
 Agoftino Lengueglia, in Venezia, 1670 and 
 1686, in quarto, with the Latin original ; and 
 by Ginefio Soderini, in Venezia, 1688. 
 This Malavolti was the fecond fon of Orlando 
 Malavolti, who writ a hiftory of Siena his coun- 
 try. Ubaldino*s elder brother was called Ber- 
 nardo -, both the father and children were all very 
 learned, and writ a pretty good ftile. Of Len- 
 gueglia and Soderini I know nothing. 
 
 Anello
 
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 Anelk Nono. U Iftoric di Eutropio delle Vit e 
 Fatti degli Imperadori Romani, tranQator un- 
 known. In Venezia, per Michel Tramezzino, 
 1^44, in octavo. 
 
 This author had been many times tranflated be> 
 fore, but never compleatly. 
 
 Anello Decimo. Ammiano Marcellino delle Guerre 
 de' Romani, tradotto per Remigio Fiorentino. 
 In Venezia, preflb i Giolito, 1550, in octavo* 
 
 Anello Undecimo. Paolo Orofio, tradotto per Gio- 
 vanni Guerini di Lanciza, in octavo, with- 
 out year, place, or name of the printer ; but it 
 appears to be printed about the year 1440. 
 I know not who Guerini was; 
 
 Anello Duodecimo. Procopio Cefarienfe, delle 
 Guerra de* Goti, libri 3, tradotto dal Latino 
 per Benedetto Egio da Spoleti. In Venezia, 
 per Michel Tramezino, 1544, in octavo. 
 
 Vol. II. libri 2. Delia Guerra di Giuftiniano contro 
 i Perfi, e due libri della Guerra del medefimo 
 contro i Vandali, tradotti da Benedetto Egio. 
 In Venezia, per il Tramezino, 1547, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Vol. III. Degli Edifici di Giuftiniano Imperatore 
 tradotto di Greco in volgare per Benedetto 
 Egio. In Venezia, per il Tramezino, 1547, 
 in octavo. 
 
 As by this third volume we fee that Egio un- 
 derftood Greek, fo it is to be fuppofed, that 
 though he tranflated the two firft books of 
 
 Procopius
 
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 Procopius from the Latin, yet he compared its 
 tranflation with the Greek original. 
 Anello Decimoterzo. Le Vite, i Coftumi, e Fatti 
 degl' Imperatori Romani, parte tratte da Au- 
 relio Vittore, parte da Eutropio, e parte da 
 Paolo Diacono, tranflator unknown. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 
 1544, in o&avo. 
 
 Iftorie di Paolo Diacono feguenti quelle di Eutro- 
 pio, tradotte di Latino in volgare da Benedetto 
 Eoio da Spoleti. In Venezia, per il Trame- 
 zino, 1548* in octavo. 
 
 Compendio della Storla Romana di Pomporiio 
 Leto, dalla Morte di Gordiano il Giovane fino 
 a Giuftino Terzo, tradotto per Francefco Bal- 
 delli. There are annexed to it, / Magiftrati> 
 Sacerdozi, e Leggi de* Romani, by the fame au- 
 thor and tranflator. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, 1549, in octavo. 
 
 Le Vite degl' Imperatori Romani di Monfignor 
 Egnazio, tradotte dal Latino, con due Fram- 
 menti di Polibio della Diverfita delie Repub- 
 liche, tradotti dal Greco, tranflators unknown. 
 In Venezia, per Francefco Marcolini, 1540, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Anello Decimoquarto. Iftorie di Giovanni Zormra 
 dal Cominciamento del Mondo infino all' Im- 
 peratore Aleflio Conneno, divife in tre parti, e 
 tradotte (from the Greek) per Lodovico Dolce. 
 In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1564, in quarto; 
 
 and
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 223 
 
 and meliorate da Meffer Agoftino Ferren 
 TiLli, 1570, in quarto. 
 
 iftorie di Niceta, le quali Cominciano dalf Impe- 
 perio di Giovanni Commeno, dove lafcia il Zo- 
 nara, e feguono fino alia prefa di Coftantinopoli 
 che fu T anno, 1443. I n Venezia, pel Gio- 
 lito, 1569, in quarto. Tranflated by Dolce 
 and compared with the Greek original by Agof- 
 tino Ferrentilli. 
 Iftorie di Niceforo Gregoca, che fiegue il Niceta, 
 fino alia fine dell' Imperio d* Andronico, tra- 
 dotte da Lodovico Dolce, rifcontrate co' Tefti 
 Greci e migliorate da Agoftino Ferrentilli. 
 In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1569, in quarto. 
 Ferrentilli, of Narni, appears to have been a 
 very learned man and an elegant writer, having 
 been chofen by Giolito to retouch and correct 
 the tranflations of Dolce. 
 Zonara was alfo tranflated by Marco Emilio Fio- 
 rentino, printed in Venezia, 1560, in quarto 5 
 and Niceta by Giufeppe Orologgi. In Venezia, 
 preffb il Valgrifi, 1562, in quarto. 
 Of this Orologi or Orologgi, author and tranfla- 
 tor of many Italian books, I cannot give any 
 account, but that he was no defpicable writer. 
 Difcorfo Univerfale di Agoftino Ferrentilli, 
 con la Creazione del Mondo di Filone Ebreo, 
 tradotta dal medefimo Ferrentilli, ed altre cofe. 
 In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1574, in quarto. 
 Anello Decimoquinto. Paolo Diacono della Chiefa 
 4* Acquileja, della Origine de' Re Longobardi, 
 
 tradotto
 
 424 The ITALIAN LlBftARt* 
 tradotto per Lodovico Domenichi. In Ve- 
 nezia, preflb il Giolito, 1548; andinMilano, 
 per Giambattifta Bidellij 1631, in duodecimo. 
 
 Anello Deamofejlo. Iftoria delle Cofe di Francia 
 di Paolo Emiiio da Verona, tranflator unknown; 
 In Venezia, preflb Michel Tramezino, 1549, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Anello Decimofettimo. Le due Deche dell' Iftoria 
 di Sicilia di Tomafo Fazelo, tradotte da Remi- 
 gio Fiorentino. In Venezia, per Domenico e 
 Giambattifta Fratelli, 1574, in quarto. 
 
 Anello Decimottavo. Le Iftorie del Biondo da 
 Forli, dalla Declinazione dello Imperio di Ro- 
 ma infino al tempo fuo, che vi corfero circa 
 mille anni ridotte in compendio da Papa Pio, e 
 tradotte per Lucio Fauno. In Venezia, per 
 Michel Tramezino, 2 vol. in o&avo. 
 Fauno was one of the many grammarians that 
 afiifted the printer Giolito in his printing-office. 
 He was a writer above mediocrity as to ftile and 
 language, but I know nothing more of him. 
 
 Anello JDecimonono. Commentari di Galeazzo Ca- 
 pella, tradotti da Francefco Filipopoli Fio- 
 rentino. In Venezia, preflb Giovanni Giolito, 
 1539, in quarto. 
 
 Anello Ventefimo. Compendio della Storia di 
 Paolo Giovio, fatto per Vincenzo Cartari da 
 Reggio. In Venezia, preflb Gabriel Giolito, 
 1562, in octavo. 
 
 Cartari was an antiquarian of Reggio in Lom- 
 bardy. Pignoria, in his Catalogue of the Anti- 
 quarians*
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 225 
 
 quarians tells us, that Ortelius calls him Caiarro\ 
 
 Gefner and Drauditts transform him into Carte- 
 
 rio. Of fucb blunders (adds Zeno) foreigners 
 
 are too often guilty in their quoting the names and 
 furnames of the Italian writers. 
 Gioja Prima. Iftoria di Gajo Plinio Secondo delle 
 
 Cofe naturali, tradotta da Criltoforo Landino. 
 
 In Roma, in JEJibus Maxim. 1473, in folio. 
 The fame. In Venezia, per Nicolo Jenfon, 1476", 
 
 in folio* 
 The fame. In Trevifo, per Michaelem Manzo* 
 
 linum, 1479, in folio. 
 The fame. In Venezia, per Filippo di Pietro 
 
 Veneziano, 1481, in folio. 
 Iftoria di Gajo Plinio Secondo delle Cofe mturalij 
 
 tradotta da Criftoforo Landini, e fivifta da 
 
 Antonio Bruccioli. In Venezia, per il Gio* 
 
 lito, 1543, in quarto. 
 The fame, tranflated by Lodovico Domenichi, 
 
 with marginal notes. In Venezia, 1652, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Either the one or the other of thefe two lad 
 
 editions is the Collana book ; but I never omit 
 
 the editions preceding the year 1500, out of 
 
 reverence for antiquity. Landino is one of the 
 
 firft commentators of Dante. 
 Solino, delle Cofe meravigliofe del Mondo, tra- 
 
 dotto da Vincenzo Belprato. In Venezia^ 
 
 pel Giolito, 1557 and 1559. 
 Gioja Seconda. I tre Libri di Pomponio Mela, del 
 
 Sito, Forma, e Mifura del Mondo, tradotto
 
 S26 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 per Tomafo Porcacchi. In Venezia, per il 
 Giolito, i557> in octavo. 
 
 GiojaTerza. Giulio Offequente, de' Prodigi ; e 
 Polidoro Virgilio dell' ifteffa Materia, libri 3 ; 
 infieme con i due libri di Giovacchino Came- 
 rario degli Oftenti ; il tutto tradotto per Do- 
 menico Maraffi. In Lione, per Tournes, 
 1554, with cuts. 
 
 I never met with the name of this Maraffi in 
 the title page of any book, nor could ever 
 find who he was. 
 
 Gioja Quart a. Tutte le Orazioni di Cicerone, 
 tradotte da Lodovico Dolce. In Venezia, 
 prefib Gabriel Giolito, 1562, in quarto. 
 This is not the word of the many tranflationj 
 that we have of Tully's Orations ; yet cri licks 
 fay, that, in fome few places, Dolce has mif- 
 taken the fenfe of the original. 
 
 Gioja Quinta. Le Iftituzione Oratorie di Quinti- 
 liano, tradotte da OrazioToscANELLA, ed ar- 
 ricchite dal medefimo dclla Dichiarazione de* 
 luoghi piudifficili in margine. In Venezia, per 
 il Giolito, 1556 and 1567, in quarto. 
 Tofcanella was of Tofcantlia, a fmall town of 
 Tufcany, whence his family took its name. He 
 was fo very poor all his life time, that he was 
 obliged to teach grammar in different parts of 
 the Venetian dominions as long as he lived. 
 Pietro Aretino in his letters fays, that he was of 
 Caftel Baldointhe territory of Verona ; but he 
 was miftaken. He married while he was a 
 
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 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 2iy 
 
 fehool-mafter there* and his poor wife brought 
 him but fifteen pounds fterling portion {cento 
 ducati Veneziani.) In his laft will, (till exifting* 
 he bids his truftees to repay* out of the Tile of 
 his books, Crijlina Mora, his maid-fervant, 
 fome money that fhe had lent him to enable 
 him to print fome of his works. His (lile and 
 language are rather good ; but he was no great 
 thinker either in profe or poetry. There is an 
 edition of this translation of Quintilian dated 
 1588, which is the fame with that of 1567, the 
 printer having but changed the title page of 
 fome copies that he had left unfold. 
 Cioja Sefta. Le Iftituzioni Imperiali di Giufti- 
 niano* tradotte per Francefco Sansovino, con 
 1* Efpofizione e i Sommari pofti a ciafcun ticolo, 
 i quali contengono la Materia del Tefto. In 
 Venezia, per Bartolomeo Cefano, 1552, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Francefco Tatti, furnamed Sanfovino, becaufe 
 his father Jacopo Tatti was born in San Savino, 
 a little towh of Tufcany, was one of the lal:o* 
 rious authors that aflifted Giolito in his printing- 
 office. He was born in Rome under the ron- 
 tificite of Leo X. His (tile and language are 
 tolerable. 
 
 Cioja Settima. Giuftio Lipfio, della Grandezza 
 di Roma. In Roma, 1600, in octavo, tranf* 
 lator unknown. 
 
 Cioja Ottava. Delia nuova Difciplina e vera Arte 
 
 MilitaredelBiiANCATio, libri otto, tratti da i 
 
 Q^ a Precctti
 
 228 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Precetti di Cefare. In Venezia, per Aldo, 
 1585, in folio. 
 
 Gioja Nona. Difcorfi di Nicolo Macchiavelli 
 fopra la Prima Deca di T. Livio. In Venezia, 
 per i SefTa, 1534, in octavo; and in Firenze, 
 per Bernardo Giunti, 1 543, in quarto. 
 They are alfo printed amongft his works, and 
 are reckoned his mafter- piece on all accounts. 
 
 Difcorfi fopra Tito Livio, di Antonio Cicca- 
 relli da Foligno. In Roma, 1558, in quarto. 
 Gioja Decima. Difcorfi di Scipione Ammirato, 
 fopra Cornel io Tacito. In Firenze, per Fi- 
 lippo Giunti, 1598, in quarto. 
 This was Ammirato the elder, whom I named 
 in another place. 
 Difcorfi di FilippoCAVRiANA fopra i primi cinque 
 Libri di Cornelio Tacito. In Firenze, per Fi- 
 lippo Giunti, 1600, in quarto. 
 Cavriana, of Mantua, was the firfl profeflbr 
 of theoretical phyfick in rhe Univerfity of Pifa 
 when he was ftill young. He then went to 
 France, lived there many years, and there he 
 writ thefe difcourfes on Tacitus, in which he 
 often fpeaks of the civil wars of France then 
 raging. There he alfo writ a Latin hiftory of 
 thofe wars, and a Latin account of the fiege of 
 Rochelle in 1572 , but neither the one nor the 
 other were ever printed. Apojtolo Zeno had a 
 copy of both in manufcript. Henry III. king 
 of France, fent him to accompany Chriftiana, 
 princefs of Lorain, to Tufcany, where me went 
 
 to
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 229 
 
 to marry the grand duke Ferdinand I. who 
 made Cavriana a knight of Santo Stefano. 
 Some fay, that he taught phyfick in the uni ver- 
 ity of Pifa after his return from France, and not 
 before his going there. 
 
 La Bilanica Politica di Trajano Boccalini fopra 
 tutte le Opere di Tacito. In Caftellana, 1679* 
 3 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Boccalini's ftile is fo unpleafing, that I had never 
 the patience to read any of his works ; yet 
 people fay, that this Bilanica Politica is a very 
 valuable work. 
 
 Gioja Undecima: Roma antica di Famiano Nar- 
 dini. In Roma, per Giovanni Andreoli, 1704, 
 in quarto, fecond edition, with cuts. At the 
 end there is added, Memoriedi varie Ann'chita 
 trovate in diverfi Luoghi di Roma, fcritta da 
 Flaminio Vacca. 
 
 The lovers of antiquities much praife Nardini 
 and Vacca. Montfaucon has even inferted Vac* 
 ca's work in his Icalick Diary ; but they were 
 both very coarfe writers in Italian. 
 
 Gioja Duodecima. Roma riftaurata, ed Italia il^ 
 luftrata di Biondo da For)!. In Venezia, per 
 Michel Tramezino, 1543, in octavo. 
 
 Roma trionfante di Biondo da Forli. In Vene- 
 zia, per Michel Tramezino, 1548, in octavo. 
 Both thefe books by Biondo were translated by 
 Lucio Fauno, one of Giolito's correctors. 
 
 Gioja Decimaterza. Tattato delle Monete e va- 
 luta loro ridotte dal coftume antico all' ufo 
 Q^ 3 moderno
 
 a 3 o The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 moderno da Guglielmo Budeo, tradotto ed ac-' 
 
 crefciuto per Gio. Bernardo Gualandi f ioren- 
 
 tino. la Firenze, prefib i Giunti, 1562, in 
 
 octavo. 
 
 Gualandi, in this tranflation, mowed himfelf a 
 
 learned and elegant writer 4 
 
 Gioja Decimaquarta. Genealogia degli Dei di 
 Giovanni Boccaccio, in 16 libri, tradotti ed 
 adornad per Giufeppe Betussi da Baffano. In 
 Venezia, al Segno dd Pozzo, 1547, in quarto; 
 and per Jacopo Sanfovino, 1569, in quarto. 
 Our famous Boccaccio writ this work in Latins 
 and confidering the time in which he writ it, 
 we muft be aftonifhed at his immenfe erudition. 
 Betuffi prefixed to his tranflation a Life of Boc- 
 eaccio^ which is an indifferent performance. 
 
 Gioja Decimaquinta. Le Imagini degli Dei degli 
 Antichi per Vincenzo Cartari da Reggio. 
 In Venezia, per il Deuchino, 1624, in quarto, 
 with cuts. There are many other editions of 
 this curious and coftly book. In that of Padova, 
 nella Stamperia di Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1626, 
 in quarto, the cuts are more copious than in 
 any other edition. 
 
 Gioja Dccimafejia. Le Imagini con tutti i riverfi 
 trovati, e le Vite degl' Imperatori tratti daile 
 medaglie e dall' Iftorie degli Antichi, per Enea 
 Vico Parmigiano, 1548, in quarto, with cuts^ 
 
 J_,e Imagini delle Donne Augufte, ccn le Viteed 
 Efpofizioni di Enea Vico. In Venezia, per il 
 Vdlgrifi, 1557, in quarto, with cuts. 
 
 Difccrft
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 2 5l 
 
 Difcorfi di Enea Vico Parmigiano fopra le me- 
 daglie degli Antichi, divifi in due libri. In 
 Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 1558, in quarto. 
 This Vico is the firft who fpoke in a modern 
 tongue about ancient medals. 
 
 Cioja Decimafettima. I Difcorfi di Antonio Agos- 
 tini fopra le medaglie, divifi in undid Dia- 
 loghi, tradotti dallo Spagnuolo. In Roma, 
 per Afcanio e Girolamo Donangeli, 1592, in 
 quarto, with cuts, translator unknown. 
 Agoftini was archbifliop of Tarracona. 
 
 I Medefimi tradotti da Dionigi Ottaviano Sada; 
 In Roma, per Filippo de Rofil, 1648 ; and 
 1650, in folio, with cuts. 
 
 Gioja Decimottava. Difcorfo di Baftiano Erizzo 
 fopra le medaglie. degli Antichi con la Dichia- 
 razione delle monete confolari e delle medaglie 
 degl' Imperatori. In Venezia, per Giovanni 
 Varifco e Paganin Paganini, in quarto, with- 
 out year. 
 
 The antiquarians much value this book, and 
 the above-named archbifliop Agoftini praifes 
 its author, who was a nobleman of Ve- 
 nice. Erizzo was of opinion, that the ancient 
 medals were not money , but Vico 9 his antago- 
 nift, fays they were , and the archbifhop, in this 
 point, joins with Vico againft Erizzo. Father 
 Etienne Cbamillart, a French Jefuit, in the firft 
 of his DifTertations, printed in Paris for Pierre 
 Lot, 171 1, in quarto, treats fully of this 
 matter, and to him I refer the curious reader, the 
 Q^4 qurflion
 
 232 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 queflion being, too unpoetical for me to expa- 
 tiate upon it. 
 Cioja Decimanona. Iftoria Augufta da Giulio Ce- 
 fare a Coftantino Magno, illuftrata con la veri- 
 ta delle antiche medaglie da Francefco Ange- 
 loni, con 1' Emendazioni poftume e col fup- 
 plimento de' Rovefci che mancavano nelle Ta- 
 vole, tratti dal teforo delle medaglie della Re- 
 gina di Svezh, e defcritti da Giampiero Bel- 
 lori fuoBibliorecario ed Antiquario. In Roma, 
 per Giambattifta BuiTotti, 1685, in folio, fe- 
 cond edition. 
 
 Angeloni, of Rome, was fecretary to cardinal 
 Ippolito Aldobrandino. Bellori was Angeloni's 
 nephew. They were both men of great eru- 
 dition. Bellori writ alfo the life of the famous 
 traveller Pietro della Voile. 
 Cioja Ventefima. Polidoro Virgilio da Urbino 
 degl' Inventori delle Cofe, tradotto per Fran- 
 cefco Baldelli, libri 8. In Firenze, per Fx- 
 lippo Giunti, 1587 and 1592, in quarto. 
 Jhe books that make up thefe two Collana's a r e 
 almoft all very fcarce, and difficult to be found ; 
 therefore, in Italy, a compleat collection of 
 them colls a large fum of money. 
 
 Viaggi
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 233 
 
 ViaggL Travels. 
 
 LE Navigazioni e Viaggi della Tnrchia di Ni- 
 colo de Nicolai, tradotti dal Francefe da 
 Francefco Flori da Lilla. In Anverfa, 1576, 
 in quarto-, and in Venezia, 1580, in folio, 
 with cuts. 
 Of this book I know nothing. 
 
 Marco Paolo Veneziano, delle maraviglie del 
 Mondo da Lui vedute. In Venezia, per Marco 
 Claferi, 1597, in octavo. 
 Francefcs Sanfovino and Marco Barbara fay, that 
 Polo's family acquired the furname of Millions* 
 becaufe Polo from his travels had brought je web 
 to the value of a million of ducats, (a hundred 
 and fifty thoufand pounds fterling) an immenfc 
 fum in thofe times. Thefe Travels, which now 
 are proved to be veracious, obtained fo little 
 credit for more than a century, that Giovanni 
 Villani fays the author of them got the furname 
 of Millione, becaufe, in them, he told a million 
 of fables. Zeno, with the authority of a very 
 old manufcript preferved in the library of the 
 family Soranzo in Venice, and with other very 
 good reafons, proves, beyond contradiction, 
 that the original of thefe travels was written in 
 the Venetian dialect ; and from that manufcript 
 we find, that Polo, being in prifon at Genoa 
 
 with,
 
 234 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 with one Rujiigielo of Pifa, dictated it to Rufti~ 
 gielo in his own tongue in the year 1299. The 
 firft edition of thefe travels is thought to be that 
 made in Venice, per Zoanne Baptifta Sefia Mi- 
 lanefe, 1496, in octavo, which is alfo in Ve- 
 netian dialed, but a little modernifed, and not 
 quite conforming to that of Polo. The Acade- 
 micians della Crufca quoted in their dictionary 
 an old Tufcan verfion, fuppofed to have been 
 made from the original Venetian by one Mi- 
 ehele Ormanni a little after the year 1 300. Friar 
 Francis Pepuri, of Bologna, tranflated Polo's 
 travels into Latin in the fourteenth century ; 
 but, altering the divifion made by Polo into 
 143 chapters, divided them into three books 
 and Andreas Mullerus, a learned German Lu- 
 theran, having got a copy of it in manufcripf, 
 printed it in Berlin in the year 1671, in quarto. 
 In the preface Mullerus fays, that the Latin 
 tranflation had never been printed before ; but 
 Salviniy in his notes on Muratorfs Perfetta Poe- 
 fia, quotes an old Venetian edition, in which 
 the translator calls himfelf Frater Francifcus Pe- 
 puri de Bononia Fratrum Pradicatorum. Ra- 
 mufio did alfo tranflate thefe travels from the 
 Latin into Italian, and printed them in his col- 
 lection, (to be named by and by.) He was of 
 opinion, that Polo writ them originally in La- 
 tin ; but, by what I relate here, it appears he 
 was miftaken. 
 Viaggi fatti da Venezia alia Tana, in Perfia, in 
 India, e Coftaminopoli, con la Defcrizione delle 
 
 Citra,
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 235 
 
 Citta, Luoghi, Siti, e Coftumi, c della Porta 
 del Gran Turco. In Venezia, nelle Cofe dc' 
 FigliuoJi d' Aldo, 1545, in octavo. 
 The collector of thefe travels was Antonio Ma~ 
 tiuziO) brother of the learned Paolo Manuzioi 
 The authors of the travels were Giofafat Bar- 
 bar 0, Ambrcgio Contarini, both noblemen of 
 Venice, and others. 
 
 Relazione del Viaggio degli Ambafciadori Giap- 
 ponefi inviati a Roma nell' anno 1582, per 
 varie Regioni dell' Afia e dell* Europa, raccolta 
 da Guido Gualtieri. In Venezia, per il 
 Giolito, 1586, in octavo. 
 Of this Gualtieri and his book I know nothing. 
 
 Navigazioni e Viaggi raccolti da Giambattiila 
 Ramusio. In Venezia, preffo i Giunti, 1588, 
 3 vol. in folio, the fourth edition ; and 1613, 
 in folio, in one vol. the fifth edi ion, with an 
 addition, Del Viaggio di M, Cefare de J Fede- 
 rici nell' Indie Oriental - !, e delle tre Naviga- 
 zioni ultimamente facte fatte dagli Olandefi e 
 Zclandefi verfo il Regno de' Sini, e la nuova 
 Zembla, e Paefi di Groenlandia. 
 In Italy they generally think this to be the belt 
 collection of travels extant. Ramufio was a 
 very learned man, a great friend of Fracajloro^ 
 Bembo, Navagero^ and all the great men of that 
 age in Italy. 
 
 Lettere dell' Etiopia dall' anno 1626, fino al 
 Marzo 1627, e della Cina dall' anno 1625, al 
 
 Febbrajo
 
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 Febbrajo 1626, con una breve Relazione del 
 Viaggio al Regno di Tunquin, mandate a Mu- 
 zio Vitellefcbi, Generate della Compagnia di 
 Gesu. In Roma, 1620, in duodecimo. 
 
 The enemies to the Jefuits fay, that thefe letters 
 contain many fables j what I can fay is, that 
 they are entertaining and well written. 
 
 Commentari del Viaggio in Perfia di Caterino 
 Zeno, e delle guerre fatte nelP Imperio Per- 
 fiano dal Tempo di Uffan Caflano in qua, libri 
 due. E dello fcoprimento dell' Ifola FriQanda, 
 Eflanda, &c. da due Fratelli Zeni> Nicolo ed 
 Antonio, libro uno; In Venezia, per ii Mar- 
 colino, 1558, in octavo. 
 A book of reputation in its kind, and not in- 
 elegantly written. 
 
 I Viaggi di Pier della Valle, defcritti daLui 
 medefimo in 54 Lettere Familiari all* erudito 
 fuo Amico Mario Schipano, (with the life and 
 portrait of the author.) In Roma, per Jacopo 
 Dragondelli, 1662, in quarto, fecond edition. 
 
 Pietro della Valle was a Roman gentleman of 
 much learning. He employed twelve years in 
 travelling over Turky, Perfia, India, &c. His 
 wife, Sitti Maani, a Mefopotamian lady, being 
 dead a little after his marriage, he took her 
 corpfe with him, and continued his travels 
 many years -, at laft, he carried her to Rome, 
 
 where he had her interred with great pomp in 
 
 the
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 237 
 
 the church of Araccli. At SittiMaani's fune- 
 ral, to which were prefent 24 cardinals, Pietra 
 della Valle began her funeral oration, but was 
 interrupted by his tears, and hindered from 
 fpeaking it. The Roman poets of that time 
 celebrated her death with their verfes, and there 
 is a book entitled, Funerale di Sitti Maani della 
 Valle celebratOy in Roma nel 1 627, e defcritto da 
 Girolamo Rocchi. In Roma, per Bartolomeo 
 Zannetti, 1627, in quarto. 
 
 Oratori;
 
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 Oratori. Orators. 
 
 OR AZ I ONI diverfe e nuove d' ecceilen- 
 tifiimi Autori. In Fiorenza, preffb il Doni, 
 1547, in quarto. 
 
 Thefe orations are feven; The authors were 
 Bartolomeo Ferrini, of Ferrara , Pietro Paolo 
 Vergerio, bifliop of Capodiftria, who afterwards 
 turned proteftant; Criftoforo Landino, of Flo- 
 rence, one of the moft copious commentators 
 of Dante and Petrarch ; Giovmni Nejt, of Flo- 
 rence ; Benedetto Varchi, Alberto Lollio, and 
 Remigio Nannini, furnamed Fiorentino % thefe 
 three laft are often named in this my horary. 
 Doni, the printer, is that fame Antonfrancefco, 
 whom I alfo mentioned in other places. He 
 was a whimfical writer, but his language is pure 
 Tufcan, and this Collection of Orations is much 
 efteemed by the lovers of eloquence. 
 As it would be endlefs to give a particular ac- 
 count of every one of the Orations that I have re- 
 giftred here, I fhall pafs very lightly over them ; 
 but if the Englifh reader will take my word, I 
 allure him that I have taken care to regifter only 
 thofe that have the fan&ion of our learned men 
 for elegance, power, and purity of language. 
 ' If they have any defect, it is a little too much 
 verbofity ; but few are the Italian profe-writers 
 that are quite free from this fault; and Boccac- 
 cio.
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 239 
 
 W0, the great Boccaccio, has been the ring-leader.' 
 The confeflion is ingenuous, and my country- 
 men will certainly think me in the wrong for 
 thinking fo, and much more for faying fo 5 but 
 even before I became acquainted with the preci- 
 fion of the clailical Englifh writers I could never 
 help thinking fo, and I will tell it becaufe I 
 think it ; yet let no body wrong fo much my 
 fincerity, as to conftrue it into adulation to the 
 Engiim, or into love of fingularity ; and let 
 no Englifh pedant (if there is any) quote me as 
 an authority againft my countrymen, becaufe 
 the Italians have done too much for literature to 
 be meanly reproached with a fault, which is 
 made up with multitude of excellencies, and is 
 only attributed to them by a fingle man, whofe 
 opinion, as it Hands fingle and unfupported by 
 any indifputable authority, is perhaps a mere 
 opinion. 
 Orazioni volgarmente fcritte da rnoki Uomini il- 
 luftri, raccolte da Francefco Sansovi^o. In 
 Venezia, per Altobello Salicato, 1584, 2 vol. 
 in quarto. 
 
 Orazioni di Alberto Lollio Ferrarefe. In Fer- 
 rara, per Valente Panizza, 1563, in quarto. 
 Thefe orations are twelve. Zeno fays, that two 
 gentlemen of Ferrara, Baruffaldi and Barotti 
 (perhaps both (till living) have in their poireffion 
 many things Latin and Italian, written by this 
 writer, that were never printed. It is pity they 
 are not publilhed. Of Lollio I [hall fay more, 
 when I come to his Letters. Ora-
 
 240 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Orazionidi Sperone Speroni. InVenezia, per 
 Roberto Mejetti, 1596, in quarto. 
 
 Orazioni e Difcorfi di Lorenzo Giacomini. In 
 Firenze, preffo il Sermatelli, 1597, in quarto. 
 Giacomini, of Florence, was one of the mod 
 learned men of his age ; bjt of him we have 
 very few things printed. Salvino Salvini, in his 
 Fafli Confolari dell* Accademia Fwrentina, fpeaks 
 of him at large. 
 
 Orazioni di Lionardo Salviati. In Firenze, 
 preffo i Giunti, 1575, in quarto. 
 This collection contains fourteen orations, be- 
 fides a translation of one originally written in 
 Latin by Pietro Vettori. 
 
 Delle Lodi del Commendatore Cafllano del Pozzo, 
 Orazlone di Carlo Dati. In Firenze, all' in- 
 fegna della Stella, 1664, in quarto. 
 
 Panegirico di Carlo Dati a Luigi XIV. Re di 
 Francia. In Firenze, all* infegna della Stella, 
 1669, in quarto. 
 
 Panegirico di Giafon de Nores, in laude della 
 Republica di Venezia. In Padova, per Paolo 
 Mejetto, 1590, in quarto. 
 Giafon de Nores was born in the ifland of Cyprus. 
 Riccoboni, fpeaking of him, fays, that he was 
 nimio dolor e epprejjus propter unicum filium fuum 
 Petrum poft mortem nobilis cujufdam Veneii, quo- 
 cum Me rixatus fuerat, in exilium pulfum. If the 
 many works of this Pietro de Nores, ftill exit- 
 ing in feveral libraries of Italy, had been pub- 
 Jimed,
 
 the ITALIAN LIBRARY. 241 
 
 lifted, he would have been more famous for 
 his learning than his father. 
 
 ^re Orazioni di Celfo Cittadini. In Siena, per- 
 Salveftro Marchetti, 1603, in octavo. 
 
 Orazione di Anfaldo Ceba, nell' Incoronazione 
 di Agoftino Doria Duca della Republica di Ge- 
 nova. In Genova, preflb Giufeppe Pa von i 
 1 60 1, in quarto. 
 
 Difcorfo di Guerra ed Orazione della Pace, del 
 Cardinal Polo, 1558, in quarto. 
 Reginaldo Polo was an Englifhman, of the royal 
 family, who was made archbifhop of Canter- 
 bury by queen Mary, and died almoft at the 
 fame hour with her : he was a good man. He 
 writ this oration when Henry II. of France had 
 a mind to make war in Italy againft Charles V. 
 he was fent by Julius III. to exhort them to 
 peace; and the oration is directed to them 
 both. The reputation of Cardinal Polo has al- 
 ways been great in Italy* but Cardinal Angelo- 
 maria Querini (who died laft year in Brefcia) 
 has increafed it, not only by publilhing his 
 Epijiks, preferved in manufcript in the Vatican 
 library, but by defending him againft Burnet 
 and Scherlorn. Polo was the firft who writ 
 againft the doctrine of Macchiavel. and in the 
 Apology of his four books De Unit ate Ecclefia^ 
 he calls him hop's generis humani, and fay3 
 that il Principe was writ Satan* digitis. 
 Scioppius, in a work preferved in manu- 
 R fcript
 
 242 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 fcript in many libraries of Italy, entitled, Ma- 
 cbiavellicorum Opera Pretium, fays, that the 
 Jefuits of Ingolftad burnt publickly a ftatue re- 
 prefcnting Machiavelli, with this infcription : 
 Quoniam fuerit homo vafer ac fab dolus , diaboli- 
 carum cogitationum faber, cptimus cacodeemonis 
 auxiliator. 
 Orazione della Pace, di Claudio Tolomei. In 
 Roma, 1534, in quarto. 
 Of Cardinal Claudio tolomei I (hall fay fome- 
 thing, when I come to his Letters. 
 
 Orazione funerale fopra la Morte del Signor Giam- 
 battifta Savello, di Benedetto Varchi. In 
 Firenze, per gli Eredi di Bernardo Giunta, 
 1551, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione di Leonardo Salviati delle lodi di Al- 
 fonfo da Efte. In Ferrara, per Vittorio Bal- 
 dini, 1587, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione delle lodi di Don Luigi Cardinal da Efte 
 fatta dal Cavalier Lionardo Salviati nella 
 Morte di quel .Signore. In Firenze, preiTo An- 
 tonio Padovani, 1587, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione di FrancefcoPANiGAROLA, in Morte di 
 Carlo Borromeo Cardinale di Santa PraiTede. 
 In Firenze, preiTo il Sermatelli, 1585, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione funerale fatta e recitata da Benedetto 
 Varchi nell' Efequie della Signora Donna Lu- 
 crezia de' Medici Duchefla di Ferrara nella 
 Chiefa di S. Lorenzo. In Firenze, preflb i 
 Giunti, 1561, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 243 
 
 Orazione di Giambattifta Adriani nelle Effe- 
 quie di Giovanna d' Auftria Gran DuchefTa di 
 Tofcana, facta in Latino e tradotta in volgare. 
 In Firenze, per i Giunti, 1579, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione funerale di Lionardo Salviati delle 
 lodi di Pier Vettori. In Firenze, preffo i 
 Giunti, 15&5, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione funerale di Pier FrancefcoCAMBi, delle 
 lodi del Cavalier Lionardo Salviati. In Firenze, 
 per Anton Padovani, 1590, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione di Michel Capri Calzolajo nella Morte 
 di Giambattifta Gelli. In Firenze, preflb Bar- 
 tolomeo Sermatelli, 1563, in quarto. 
 I cannot find whether this author was really a 
 fhoe-maker, or if Ihoc-maker (Calzolajo) was 
 only a nickname ; but as his oration is in praife 
 of our learned (hoe-maker, I am inclined to 
 think that he was alfo of that humble profeflion. 
 
 Orazione funerale di Giovanni delle Armi in 
 Morte di Francefco Panigarola. In Firenze, 
 per Giovanni Antonio Tefta, 1595, in quarto. 
 
 Orazione funerale dell' Accademico Ardente (Sci- 
 pione Buonanni) recitata in lode del Cavalier 
 BattiftaGuarini nell' Accademia degli Umorifti. 
 In Roma, per Giacomo Mafcardi, 161 3, in 
 quarto. 
 
 The learned reader knows, that there are in Italy 
 many focieties (there called academies) whofe 
 members affume a feigned name when received 
 academicians^ 
 
 R 2 Orazione
 
 244 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Orazione funerale di Benedetto Varchi, fatta e 
 recitata da Lui publicamente nell' Effequie di 
 Michelangelo Buonarroti in Firenze nella Chiefa 
 di S. Lorenzo. In Firenze, preflb i Giunti, 
 1564, in octavo. 
 
 Buonarroti died in Rome ninety years old, after 
 having filled the world with his name as a 
 painter, ftatuary, architect, and poet. Even 
 Soliman II. emperor of the Turks, wiflied to 
 have him at his fervice, and made him large 
 offers if he would go and fettle in Conftanti- 
 nople. His body was tranfported from Rome 
 to Florence by order of the grand duke, where 
 he was interred with great pomp, attended by 
 all the learned and artifts of that city. Varchfs 
 oration on that occafion is one of his bed things. 
 
 Orazione, ovvero Difcorfo di Gio. Maria Tar- 
 sia, fatto nelle Efequie del Divino Michel- 
 agnolo Buonarroti, con alcuni Sonetti e Profe 
 Latine e volgari di diverfi circa il difparere oc- 
 corfo tra gli Scultori e Pittori. In Firenze, per 
 Bartolomeo Sermatelli, 1564, in octavo. 
 The additions to this oration would pleafe a lover 
 of picture and fculpture. 
 Effcquie de! Divino Michelangelo Buonarroti, ce- 
 lebrate in Firenze dalP Accademia de* Pittori, 
 Scultori, ed Architettori nella Chiefa di S. Ljo- 
 renzo. In Firenze, per i Giunti, 1564, in 
 quarto: 
 Delle lodi di Antonio Magliabechi, Orazione fune- 
 rale di Antonmaria Salvini, detta da Lui pub- 
 licamente
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 245 
 
 licamente nelP Accademia Fiorentina. In Fi- 
 
 renze, per i Guiducci e Franchi, 1715a in 
 
 folio. 
 Pelle lodi di Pietro Andrea Forzoni Accolti, Ora- 
 
 zione funerale di Antonmaria Salvini detta da 
 
 EfTo neir Accademia degli Apatifti. In Fi- 
 
 renzc, per Giufeppe Manni, 1720, in quarto. 
 Orazione di Aleffandro Piccolomini in lode delle 
 
 Donne. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1549, in 
 
 octavo. 
 
 As pretty a thing as ever was written upon this 
 
 delicate fubjeft. 
 
 R 3 Oraiori
 
 246 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Oratori Greci e Latini Volgarizzati. 
 
 Greek and Latin Orations tranjlated into 
 Italian, 
 
 c 
 
 INQJJE Orazioni di Demoflene ed una di 
 Efchine, tradotte di Lingua Greca in Ita- 
 Jiana fecondo la Verita de' Sentimenti. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Aldo, 1557, in odavo. Tranflator 
 unknown. 
 
 Due Orazioni, una d' Efchine contra Tefifonte, 
 1* akra di Demoflene a fua difefa, di Greco in 
 volgare nuovamente tradotte per unGentiluomo 
 Fiorentino. In Venezia, preflb i Figliuoli d' 
 Aldo, 1554, in octavo. Tranflator unknown m 
 
 Orazione di Demoflene contra la legge di Lettine 
 la quale togliea via tutte le efenzioni. In Ve- 
 nezia, preflb i Figliuoli d' Aldo, 1555, in oc- 
 tavo. Without the name of the tranflator, but 
 Haym fays he was Girolamo Ferro. 
 
 Le undeci Filippiche di Demoflene, e tutte le 
 
 Orazioni d' Ifocrate. See the Collana Greca, 
 
 Gioja 10. 
 La prima Orazione d* Ifocrate a Demonico, da 
 
 Bernardo Crisolfo. In Venezia, 1548, in 
 
 octavo. 
 Tutte le Orazioni di Cicerone, tradotte da Lodo- 
 
 vico Dolce. See Collana Lalina, Gioja 4. 
 
 Orazioni
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 247 
 Orazioni di Cicerone per Q^ Ligario, per Mar- 
 cello, e per Dejotaro. In Lione, 1578, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Some criticks fay the tranflator was Brunetlo 
 
 Latini, mafter of the poet Dante. 
 Le Filippiche di Cicerone contra Marcantonio, 
 
 fatte volgari per Girolamo Ragazzoni. In 
 
 Venezia, per Paolo Manuzio, 1556, in quarto. 
 La Seconda Filippica di Cicerone, tradotta da 
 
 Giovanni Giustiniano. In Venezia, 1538, 
 
 in octavo. 
 Orazione di Cicerone nel genere deliberativo, fatte 
 
 Itaiiane dal Fausto da Longiano. In Ve- 
 
 nezia, 1556, in octavo. 
 Orazione per Milone, tradotta daGiacomo Bon- 
 
 fadio. In Venezia, per Aldo, 1554, in octavo. 
 Orazione per la Legge Maniiia d' Antonio. In 
 
 Venezia, 1538, in octavo. 
 Orazione di Cicerone per Marcello, d' Anonimo, 
 
 1537, in octavo. 
 Orazione di Cicerone contra Valerio, tradotta da 
 t Marcantonio Tor tor a. In Venezia, 1537$ 
 
 in octavo. 
 
 I fette Libri di M. Tuliio Cicerone contra Gajo 
 
 Verre, tradotti dal Latino in volgare da Gio- 
 feffb Tramezino. In Venezia, per Michele 
 Tramezino, 1544, in octavo. 
 
 II Panegirico di Plinio il Giovane a Trajano. See 
 Collana Latina, Anello 8. 
 
 We have many more tranflators of Greek and Latin 
 Orations, but the above are the beft. 
 
 R 4 Novellifti.
 
 248 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 
 
 i 
 
 Novellifti. Novellifti. 
 
 L Decamerone di Giovanni Boccaccio. 
 
 Of all the books in our language, none is fo 
 well known as this, either at home or abroad.. 
 Boccaccio was born in the year 13)3, and the 
 famous poet Francefco Petrarca was his matter. 
 None of our writers had ever fomuch copiouf- 
 nefs, elegance, and wif, yet I cannot help 
 thinking that his ftile is a little embarraffed by 
 his frequent tranfpofitions and parenthefis within 
 parenthefis. Every religious man wimes that 
 he had kept within the bounds of morality and 
 chriftianity ; he had not then been the execra- 
 tion of the good. He was the inventor of the 
 Ottawa Rima, the nobleft concatenation of verfes 
 that we have. Pie writ many other works, 
 which I fhall mention in their places. The 
 moll valued edition of his Decamerone is that 
 of Florence, 1527, per gli Eredi di Fiiippo 
 Giunta, in fmall quarto, which is fcarce to be 
 found, and fold very dear. This book was 
 reprinted fome years ago in Venice, and copied 
 with fucji exafrnefs, both of paper and print, 
 that fome people lay it is fcarce to be diftin- 
 guifhed from Giunta's edition. As catalogues 
 of the numerous editions of the Decamerone are 
 eafily come at, I (hall not lengthen mine by 
 
 ~"ing them. I fhall only mention that called
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, H9 
 
 of the Deputati, that is of fome Academicians 
 delta Crufca, who expunged the book of (almoft) 
 all its immoralities by order of the grand 
 duke of Florence, and printed it in the year 
 1573, in quarto. Nor will I omit telling the 
 reader, that Boccaccio ferioufly repented he had 
 written fo many impure things, and died a 
 Chriftian, as it particularly appears by his will 
 in Latin, printed in a book entitled, IJioriadel 
 Vecamerone di Giovanni Boccaccio di Domenico 
 Maria Manni. In Firenze, preffo Antonio 
 Riftori, 1742, in quarto. 
 
 Le Cento Novelle Antiche. In Bologna nelle 
 Cafe diGirolamo Benedetti, 1525, in quarto j 
 and in Venezia, per gli Eredi di Marchio Sella, 
 1571. A very old book, but author unknown, 
 
 Settartta Novelle di Giovanni Sabadino degli 
 Arienti. In Bologna, per Enrico de Colo- 
 nia, 1483, in folio. 
 
 11 Novellino di Masuccio Salernitano, 1491, in 
 folio. Place and printer unknown. 
 There are many other editions of this book, 
 which is written in pure language, but the mo- 
 rals are neglected in it and in the two above, 
 as much as in Boccaccio^ if not more. 
 
 Jvfovelle del Bandello, the three firft volumes, 
 in Lucca, prefibil Buidrago, 1554, in quarto. 
 The fourth, in Lione, per ii Marfili, 1573, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Thii Giovanni Bandello' s novels I could never 
 have (he patience to read. He wanted to 
 
 imitate
 
 250 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 imitate Boccaccio's flile and immoralities ; but 
 let who will praife him, he is dull and un- 
 harmonious to the greateft degree. Shake- 
 fpeare took the fubject of two or three of his 
 plays from thefe novels, particularly that of 
 Romeo and Juliet , tranflated into elegant Englifh 
 by the authorefs of Shakefpeare illujlrated. There 
 is a London edition of thefe Novels. 
 II Pecorone di Giovan Fiorentino. In Milano, 
 appreffo Giovan Antonio degli Antoni, 1558, 
 in octavo; and in Trevigi, 1 601, in octavo. 
 The language of this book, though a little ob- 
 folete, is very fine , but for morals this Fio- 
 rentino was ftill worfe than Boccaccio and Ban- 
 dello. Strange perverfion in all our novellifts, 
 that they took as much pain to corrupt man- 
 kind, as the apofiles to fave them. 
 
 Novelle di Agnolo Firenzuol a (printed with his 
 works.) In Firenze, per Bernardo Giunti, 1552, 
 in quarto. 
 
 It is lucky that Firenzuola did write but a few 
 novels. He would have done more mifchief 
 than Boccaccio himfelf, his ftile being ftill more 
 pleafing ihan Boccaccio's, and his wit in immo- 
 rality at lead as great. If I remember well, 
 he writ but feven novels. 
 
 Novelle di NicoloGRANucci. In Lucca, 1566, 
 in octavo. 
 
 This book I have never feen, but as it has no 
 reputation, I conclude that it is lefs elegant and 
 left corrupted than the reft. 
 
 Gli
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 251 
 
 GHEcatomiti di Giambattifta Giraldi Cintio. 
 In Monteregale, per Lionardo Torrentino, 
 1 565, 2 vol. in octavo. 
 
 Giraldi Cintbio's book was admired for a while, 
 but at length the badnefs of his ftile plunged it 
 into the oblivion that it deferves. Monteregale 
 is a town in the Alps, now called Mondovl, 
 belonging to the king of Sardinia. 
 La Piacevoli notti di Gianfrancefco Strapparol a 
 da Caravaggio. In Venezia, per Comin da 
 Trino, 1557, in octavo ; e per Domenico 
 Gig'io, 1558, in octavo. 
 One may learn little that is worth knowing, by 
 reading this book, tnough it has many admirers 
 in Italy. 
 Delleducento Novelle di Celio Malespinj, parte 
 prima e feconda. In Venezia, 1609, 2 vol. 
 in quarto. Of this novellift I know nothing. 
 I Trattenimenti di Scipione Bargagli, dove da 
 vaghe Donne e da giovani Uomini rapprefen- 
 tati fono onefti e dilettevoli giuochi, narrate 
 Novelle, e cantate alcune amorofe Canzonette. 
 In Venezia, appreffo Bernardo Giunti, 1592, 
 in quarto. 
 
 The word onefti means its oppofite in the title 
 of this filly book ; hut I do not chufe to drop 
 any of our novellifts of note, that the c.riofity 
 of the reader may be fatisfled about this clafs of 
 our writers,, which is the molt celebrated, but 
 the word, in the right fignification of the word; 
 The famous novel of Belphegor by Macchiavelli 
 is printed with the reft of his works. 
 
 Profatori;
 
 2 5 2 The ITALIAN LIBRARYV 
 
 Prefatori. Trofe-Wr iters 5 that is, 2fcw& of 
 
 Amufement* 
 
 
 
 IL Corbaccio, di Giovanni Boccaccio con le 
 Note di Jacopo Corbinelli. In Parigi, per 
 Federigo Morello, 1569, in oftevo , and in 
 Firenze, per Filippo Giunti, 1594, in octavo. 
 It is alfo printed many times under the title of 
 Laberinto d? Amove. 
 
 La Fiammetta, di Giovanni Boccaccio di nuovo 
 riftampata e riveduta con ogni diligenza co J tefti 
 a penna, e con poftille in margine. In Firenze, 
 per Filippo Giunti, 1594, in octavo. 
 
 II Filocolo di Giovanni Boccaccio, di nuovo ri- 
 veduto e ricorretto ed alia fua vera Lezione ri- 
 dotto co* tefti a penna. In Fireuze, per Fi- 
 lippo Giunti, 1594, in quarto. It is alfo printed 
 many times under the title of Filocopo* 
 
 Ninfe di Ameto, Commedia di Giovanni Boc- 
 caccio. InVenezia, 1478, in quarto, printer 
 unknown. Printed alfo under the title of 
 Ameto Commedia delle Ninfe Florentine. In Fi- 
 renze, peri Giunti, 152 1, in octavo. 
 
 Amorofa Vifione, di Giovanni Boccaccio con 
 ofTervazioni di Girolamo Clarigio, e Apolo- 
 gia del Boccaccio del medcfimo. In Milano, 
 1520, in quarto. 
 
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 Amorofa Vifione, Trionfo di Gloria, Sapienza,' 
 Ricchezza, &c. di Giovanni Boccaccio. In 
 Venezia, prcflb il Giolito, 1549, in octavo. 
 
 L' Urbano, di Giovanni Boccaccio. In Firenze, 
 per Filippo Giunti, 1598, in octavo. 
 All thefe works by Boccaccio are very tire- 
 fome to read, and as fuch they are almoft 
 forgotten ; yet there is a good deal of the 
 beft language to be learned from the perufal of 
 them by a judicious reader. Some of the above 
 books were printed many times. 
 
 Facezie Piacevoli, e Fabule, e Motti del Piovano 
 Arlotto. In Venezia, per Jo. Tacuino da 
 Trino, 1520, in octavo. 
 
 Facezie, Motti, e Burle del Piovano Arlotto,' 
 del Gonella e cP altri. In Firenze, per i 
 Giunti, 1568, in octavo. 
 
 Arlotto, if I remember well, was a jolly, fat 
 country curate about Bologna. Gonella was a 
 buffoon to a duke of Ferrara. While wit was 
 ftill in its infancy, thefe two men were looked 
 upon as the greater! jefters in the world. One 
 Beccelli, of Verona, writ a few years ago a 
 burlefque epick poem, whofe title and fubject is 
 this Gonella , but as it is a very poor perfor- 
 mance, I fhall not fay more of it. 
 
 Facezie, Motti, e Burle di diverfe Perfone, rac- 
 colte da Lodovico Domenichi. In Firenze, 
 peril Torrentino, 1564, in octavo; and 1609, 
 with additions by Tomafo Porcacchi. 
 
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 ,Motti Semenziofi in brevita di parole. In Vene- 
 zia, 1546, in octavo. 
 
 Dialogo dove fi ragiona della Creanza del'e Donne, 
 dello Stordito Intronato (that is, Aleffandro 
 Piccolomini.) In Milano, 1558, in octavo; 
 and in Venezia, 1574, in duodecimo. 
 
 j 'This little book is written in very elegant Sie- 
 nefe language; but if the author had been 
 hanged before he writ it, it would have been 
 better, hisdefign in it being to abolifh honefty 
 in married women. Yet I muft repeat what I 
 faid in another place, that Piccolomini was then 
 young, that he foon repented, and writ many 
 good things. 
 
 Capricciofi Ragionamenti di Pietro Aretino, 
 with the fuppofed date of Cofmopoli, 1660, in 
 octavo. 
 
 A good book to light a fire, though much en- 
 quired after, and fold very dear. 
 
 L' Antropologia, (that is ; On the Excellence of 
 Man and Woman) di Galeazzo Capella. In 
 Venezia, per Aldo 1533, in octavo. 
 
 Dialoghi diLodovico Domenichi, cioe d' Amore 
 de* Rimedi d' Amore, dell* Amor fra^erno, 
 della Fortuna, della vera Nobilita, delle im- 
 prefe della Corte, e della Stampa. In Venezia, 
 per il Giolito, 1562, in octavo. 
 This book contains a great deal of thinking ; 
 but the firft dialogue is a filly thing in my 
 opinion. 
 
 Le
 
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 Le Bellezze, le Lodi, gli Amori, ed i coftumi 
 delle Donne, da Agnolo Firenzuola ed Alef- 
 fandro Piccolomini, con gli Ammaeftramenti 
 di Lodovico Dolce alle Vergini, alle Maritate, 
 ed alle Vedove. In Venezia, 1622, in octavo. 
 I have already faid, that Firenzuola and Piece- 
 lomini are to be ranked in the firft clafs of our 
 elegant writers. 
 
 Dialogodi Nicolo Franco, dove fi ragiona delle 
 Bellezze. In Venezia, per Antonio Gardane, 
 1 54 1, in octavo. 
 
 La Philena di Nicolo Franco, Iftoria Amorofa. 
 In Mantova, per Jacopo Ruffinelli, 1547, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Dialoghi Piacevoli di Nicol6 Franco. In Ve- 
 nezia, per il Giolito, 1541 and 1545, in quarto. 
 This Franco was firft the amanuenfis and then 
 the enemy of Autino^ againft whom he writ 
 many virulent things in profe and verfe ; but 
 he was not a better man than he who had been 
 his old mafter and benefactor. If I remember 
 well, Franco was at laft hanged at Rome. 
 
 Lezione della Gelofia di Michelangelo Serafini. 
 In Firenze, pel Torrentino, 1550, in quarto. 
 
 Artefila, Dialogo. In Lione, per il Rovilio, 
 1562, in quarto. 
 
 Haym thinks the author of this book to be Luca 
 Antonio Ridolfi. 
 
 Tre Libri d' Amore di Francefco Cattani da 
 Diacceto, con la Vita del detto fcritta da Be- 
 nedetto Varcbi. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1 56 1, in octavo. There
 
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 There is a great deal of filly (luff in Cattanh 
 work, but it is elegantly written. 
 
 Dialogo della Signora Tullia d' Aragona dell* In- 
 finite d' Amore. In Venezia, prefib il Giolito, 
 1547, in duodecimo. 
 
 This charming lady had very refined platonick 
 notions of love ; but had me writ nothing 
 elfe, I fhould call her a whimfical fort of a 
 girl. 
 
 Dialogo della Bellezza e Dialogo di Amore, fe- 
 condo la Mente di Platone, di Nicolo Vito di 
 Gozzi Ragufeo. In Venezia, 1 58 1 , in quarto. 
 
 II Raverta, Dialogo di Giufeppe Betussi, nel 
 quale fi ragiona d' Amore e degli efletfi fuoi. 
 In Venezia, preffo il Giolito, 1545 and 1562, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Della Natura d' Amore, di Mario Equicola d' 
 Alveto. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 1554 and 
 1^62, in duodecimo. 
 
 Diologo d' Amore di Leone Ebreo. In Venezia, 
 per i Figliuoli d' Aldo, 1552, in octavo. 
 Leone, furnamed Ebreo, (the Jew) was the fon 
 of Ifaac Abarbanel, a Jew of Caftiile, who fled 
 with his family to Italy on the edicts publifhed 
 againft the Spanifh Jews by king Ferdinand, 
 furnamed the Catholick. By this book, Leone 
 appears to have been a very acute platonick phi- 
 lofopher ; but his remarks on Love are rather 
 witty and fpecious, than true ; at leaft it feems 
 6 to me. As to his ftile it is but indifferent. 
 
 It
 
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 It would be endlefs to regifter all the books that 
 were written on Love between the year 1530 
 and 1580, in which fpace of time the filhion 
 of writing on that fubject was become a kind 
 of epidemical diftemper, that fpread widely 
 over Italy both in profe and verfe. The ge- 
 nerality of the authors that writ on it, did it 
 rather like Pedants and Pagans, than like Phi- 
 lofophers and Chriftians ; yet I did not chafe to 
 pafs them quite over in (llence, and have here 
 felecled a few of the lefs whimfical in fyftem, 
 and more elegant in language. 
 
 Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, o fia Pugna d' 
 Amore in fogno. In Venezia, per Aldo, 1545, 
 in folio, with cuts. 
 
 I fhall tranflate here what Zeno fays of this 
 Hypnerotomachia. ** This book is a romance 
 " of a new kind. Its ftile is an odd compofi- 
 * c tion of Greek, Latin, Lombard, larded 
 " with Hebrew, Arabick, and Chaldaick 
 " words. At firft the author writ it in corh- 
 " mon Italian ; but, in his proemial letter to 
 " Polia, (his miftrefs and fubjecl of the book) 
 " he tells us, that he has thus transformed it ac 
 " her dcfire. I have known people, and fomc 
 " of them not void of fenfe and learning, that 
 " have thought all fciences were contained in it. 
 " Architects, mathematicians, philofophers, 
 " antiquarians, and even alchemifts have me- 
 " ditated on it for a long while ; I know 
 ** not if with any advantage, but certainly with 
 
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 " great patience and labour. The fubje<5t of 
 " the work, divided in two books, is the nar- 
 " rative of a myfterious dream, which though 
 " it appears very long and tedious to the reader, 
 " yet, as to the dreamer, lafted but from the 
 " appearance of the twilight to that of the fun 
 " on the horizon. This dream made a great 
 <e many dream, as it happens in companies, 
 " that one yawner makes many yawn." Zeno 
 then goes on ridiculing Fontanini and others, 
 who give numberlefs praifes to the fuppofed 
 doctrine contained in the Hypnerotomachia. The 
 author was Francefco Colonna, as it appears by 
 collecting together each firft word of every 
 chapter, which acroftichally fay, Piliam f rater 
 Francifcus Columns peramavit. This Polia was 
 a noble lady of Teramo (a town in Abruzzo) 
 called Lucrezia Lelia ; and Cohnna was a Do- 
 minican friar of Venice. Lionardo Crajfo, 
 VoJJius, Scita, Curtius Sinforianus, Meneta, Me- 
 nage, Leandro Alberti, and a multitude of other 
 learned men fpeak of Colonna and his whimfical 
 book. 
 
 II Convito di Gio. Battifta Modio, ovvero del 
 
 Pefo della Moglie, dove fi conchiude che non 
 
 puo la Donna difonefta far vergogna all* Uomo. 
 
 In Milano, preffo Gio. Antonio degli Antohi, 
 
 1558, in octavo. 
 
 Modio, of Santa Severina (a fmall town in the 
 Marca d'Ancona) was a phyfician by profeffion, 
 and famous in his time for his knowledge of 
 
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 Greek. The above book is written in dialogue^ 
 the fubjefr. is learnedly treated, and the ftile is 
 good. 
 
 Il Libro della bella Donna compofto da Federigo 
 Luigini da Udine. In Venezia, per Plinio 
 Pietrafanta, 1554, inoftavo. 
 This book by Luigini is not contemptible. 
 
 L' Amorofo Convivio di Dante. In Firenze, 
 per Francefco Bonarcorfi, 14.90, in quarto. 
 This. Dante is the famous AUghieri, not to be 
 confounded with Dante da Majano, another poet 
 of whom we have only a fewjyrick things left. 
 
 Gli Afolani di Pietro Bembo. In Venezia, preffo 
 Aldo, 1505 , and in Firenze, per Filippo 
 Giunti, 151 5, in duodecimo. 
 This book of Bembo is prodigioufly admired 
 by many, and indeed the language of it is pure 
 and elegant ; but the things that it contains are 
 fo trifling, and fo much is made out of nothing, 
 thatl never could read one half of it. 
 
 Selva di varie Sentenze e Documenti per quelli 
 che fanno Profeffione di fervire in Corte^ rac- 
 colti da molti eccellenti Scrittori, per Vincenzo 
 Magnini Fiorentino. A Collettion of various 
 Sentences and Rules for Courtiers picked up from 
 various writers. In Firenze, per Pietro Nefti 
 e Compagni, 1629, in duodecimo. 
 
 I Marmi del Doni. In Venezia, per il Marco- 
 lini, 1562. in quarto. 
 
 II Cancelliere del Doni. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 Jito, 1562, in quarto. 
 
 S 2 I Mondi
 
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 I Mondi Celefti, Terreftri, ed Infernali del Dost. 
 
 In Venezia, per il GiolitOj 1562, in octavo ; 
 
 e preflb Giorgio de' Cavalli, 1568, in octavo. 
 Fiori della Zucca, del Doni. In Venezia, per 
 
 Francefco Marcolini, 1552, in octavo. 
 
 This Ant onf "ranee fco Doni was a whimfical writer,. 
 
 not deftitute of elegance. He was alfo one of 
 
 the enemies of Aretino, and not at ail afraid of 
 
 his pen. He published great many works. 
 
 Operedi Giulio Camillo Delminio. In Venezia, 
 pel Farri, 1579, in duodecimo. 
 
 Delminio was one of the moft learned men of 
 his age. We have many Italian and Latin things, 
 both in profe and verfe, published by him in 
 his life-time, and many more left manufcript. 
 A friend of mine intended to print in one body 
 all his writings, when I left Italy ; but I do not 
 know if he has brought his fcheme to execution. 
 
 Lezioni di Benedetto Varchi, nel quale fi tratta 
 della Natura della Generazione del Corpo uma- 
 no e de' Moftri. In Firenze, per i Giunti, 
 1560, in octavo ; to the fecond part there is 
 added, Cinque Lezioni di Lelio Bonsi, with a 
 treatife on the Comets. 
 
 Lezioni di Benedetto Varchi fbpra diverfe ma- 
 terie poetiche e filofofiche, raccolte nuovamente 
 e la maggior parte non piu date in luce. In 
 Firenze, per Filippo Giunti, 1590, in quarto. 
 By thefe two books it appears, that Varchi was 
 a very inquifitive and learned natural philofo- 
 pher, confiderirg the time he lived in. 
 
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 Ragguagli di Parnafo, di Trajano Boccalinj.- 
 In Venezia, p?r Giovanni Guerigli, 1624 and 
 1630, 2 vol. in duodecimo. 
 
 The author of this book had much wir, but 
 his ftile is very bad in my opinion. 
 
 Avvifo c|i Parnafo, ne! quale fi racconta la Po- 
 verta e Miferia dove e giunta la Republica di 
 Venezia ed il Duca di Savoja, tradotta dall* 
 Lingua Spagnuoia per Valerio Fulvio Savo- 
 jano. In Antopoli, nella Stamperia Regia, 
 1 62 1, in quarto. 
 
 Though it is faid in the title, that this poor 
 book is tranjhted from the Spani/h, yet I think 
 it originally written by Boccalini himfelf, as 
 well as the two next. 
 
 -Caftigo EfemplareVic' Calunnia f ori, avvifo di Par- 
 nafo di Valerio Fulvio Sav jano. In Anti- 
 nopoli, nella Samperia Regia, 1621, in quarto. 
 
 Ailegazione per confirmare quanto fi fcrive nelle 
 annotazionj all* awifo di Parnafo al numero 
 57, cavata della Vita di Fra Bartolomeo della 
 Cafa Vefcovo di Ch'upa, defcritta da Fra Mi- 
 chele Pio Bolognefe. In Antinopoli, nella 
 Stamperia Regia, 162 1, in quarto, 
 
 Agrippina minore e mutazione dell* Imperio de" 
 PrimiCefari, di Francefco de' ContiBERARDi. 
 In Venezia, per il Baba, 1647, in quarto. 
 There is forne erudition in this book, but the 
 ftile is very indifferent. 
 
 S 3 Profe
 
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 Profe di AgoftinoMASCARDi divife in due parti, 
 con moke aggiunte. In Venezia, per Francefco 
 Baba, 1654, in duodecimo. 
 
 Difcorfi di Agoftino Mascardi fulla tavola di 
 Cebete Tebano. In Venezia, per il Baba, 1653, 
 in duodecimo. 
 
 Mafcardi, a learned Roman prelate, was a great 
 Friend to the unfortunate Francois Augujie de 
 tfhou (Ton of Ibuanus the hiflorian) that was 
 beheaded in Lyons with Monfieur De Cinq Mars 
 in 1642. Mafcardi's fiile is rather good. 
 
 Mefcolanze di Egidio Men agio. In Parigi, per 
 Luigi Bilaine, 1678, in o&avo, with additions. 
 In Rotterdamo, apprefib Reinerio Leers, 1692, 
 in octavo. 
 
 The learned Monfieur Menage, as it appears by 
 his Menagiana and others of his works, valued 
 . himfelf much on his knowing Italian fo well as 
 he did, and for the many things, both in profe 
 and verfe, that he writ in that language ; but 
 it feems to me, that, in his Italian profe, he 
 had but little elegance, and, in his Italian poe- 
 try, he wants copia verborum and poetical think- 
 ing. I have feen a fmall duodecimo containing 
 his Greek, Larin, French, and Ita'ian poetry, 
 but have forgot when and where it was printed. 
 I muft neverthelefs do him the jultice to fay, 
 that his Origini della Lingua haliana laid the Ita- 
 lian literature under fome obligation to him ; 
 although part of the etymologies are thought 
 abfurd, and part were furnifhed him by many 
 
 learned
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 263 
 
 learned Florentines, efpeciaJiy Redi, Dati, Pan- 
 eiatichi and Chimentelli. Thefe Origini were 
 printed in Genevra, per Gio. Antonio Chovet, 
 1685, in folio. 
 
 II Peregrino, di Jacopo Caviceo da Parma. In 
 Vinegia, per Pietro Niccolini daSabbio, 1538, 
 in octavo, 
 
 Fontanini fays, that this book is an imitation of 
 Boccaccio's Filocopo, Caviceo, born in 1443, 
 writ many other things both in profe and verfe, 
 amongft which there is a hiftory of the war be- 
 tween the Venetians and the archduke Sigif- 
 mond of Auftria, againft which Conradus 
 Wengerius writ a fmall book full of too virulent 
 expreffions. 
 
 Profe di M. Angelo Fjrenzuola Fiorentino. In 
 Fiorenza, per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1552, in 
 octavo. 
 
 I fpoke of Firenzuola in other places. 
 
 Pialogo de' Giuochi che nelle Vegghie Sanefi (i 
 ufano di fare, del Materiale Intronato. A Dia- 
 logue on the Games ufedin the Evening- Jjjemhlies 
 at Siena, by Girolamo Bargagli. 
 
 This book, not inelegantly written in the dia- 
 lect of Siena, pleafes me much, becaufe it is a 
 pretty picture of the manners and fimplicity of 
 amufements of the Sienefe, when they were an 
 independent commonwealth. 
 
 Pifcorfi di Aleflandro Sardo. In Venezia, preflb 
 il Giolito, 1586, in octavo. 
 
 S 4 Sardo, 
 
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 204 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Sardo, of Ferrara, as well as Alberto LoSia t 
 was a difciple of Marcantonio Antionaco, famous 
 for his knowledge of the Greek and Latin 
 tongues. Sardo feems to me to know more 
 than his condifcipJe, but Lollio's Italian wri T 
 tings have more elegance. 
 
 Due Dialoghi di Gio. Andrea Gilio da Fabriano : 
 nel primo fi tratta delle parti morali e civili ap- 
 partenenti a' Letterati e Cortigiani ; nel fecondD 
 gli errori de' Pittori circa 1' Iftoria, con anno- 
 tazioni fopra il Giudizio di Michelangelo Buo- 
 narroti; ed in che modo devono elTer dipinte 
 le facre Irnagini ; con un Difcorfo fopra la pa- 
 rola Urbe, Citta, Colonia, e Municipio. In 
 Camerino, per Antonio Giojofo, 1564, in 
 quarto. 
 
 This book is full of erudition, and the lan- 
 guage is very good. Gilio was fo in love with 
 Fabriano, the place of his nativity, that, in his 
 work, he not only praifes and illuftrates very 
 much its antiquity, but, not utisfied with it, 
 jn another of his performances, entitled, To- 
 pica, he affirms, that Fabriano produced, in 
 Petrarccfs time, three poetical ladles ; that is, 
 Leonora de* Conti della Genga, Orlenjia di Gug~ 
 UdmOy and Livia Cbiavelli. He gives ten So- 
 netti asafpecimen of their poetry, but the ftile 
 of them is fo much like Gi/io's, that I much 
 doubt if he was not himfelf the father of the three 
 poeteffes and of their verfes. 
 
 Giordano
 
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 ^Giordano Bruno Nolano, Spaccio della Beftia 
 Xrionfance. In Parigi, 1584, in octavo. 
 As the author of this book was burnt ineffigif, 
 and almoft all the copies deftroyed, fo the petty 
 atheifts give any money for it, thinking to find 
 in it many things worth knowing; but I can 
 allure them, that the author was not only an 
 atheift, but alio a dunce, and as defpicable for 
 his ignorance, as for his pretended principles; 
 If his book was reprinted, it would do no great 
 harm to any body, I am fure. The four next 
 wretched performances are by the fame hand, 
 and the myfterious titles promife nothing bup 
 filly harmlefs Huff. 
 
 Degli Eroici Furori. In Parigi, per Antonio 
 Bajo, 1585, in octavo. 
 
 Cabala del Cavallo Pegafeo, con 1' ag^iunce dell' 
 Afmo Cillenico. In Parigi, per Antonio Bajo, 
 1585, in octavo. 
 
 Dell' Infinito Univerfo e Mondi. In Venezia, 
 1584, in octavo. 
 
 La Cena delleCeneri. In Parigi, 1584, in octavo. 
 
 Romanzi
 
 266 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 Romanzi Antichi. Old Romances, 
 
 s 
 
 ECRETTA alcuna Yftoria breve del Re 
 Karlo Imperatore ; poi del nafcimento Sc 
 opere di quello magnifico Cavalieri nominato 
 Guerino & prenominato Mefchino. In Pado- 
 va, per Barthol. de Val de Zochia & Martin de 
 Septemarborlbus 21, de Aurille, 1473, in 
 folio; and in Venezia, per Gerardo di Fiandra, 
 1477 and 148 1, in folio, with this title, Yfto- 
 ria del Re Karlo, & Opere del Mefchino. 
 I have copied both the titles of this old romance 
 
 Xas they (land in the books. Many other edi- 
 tions of it were made afterwards. In Italy it 
 is generally looked upon as a book only fit for 
 children, being of the fame call with the Seven 
 Champions in Englifli ; but I put more value 
 upon this book than others do ; firft, becaufe 
 it was the book that gave me a liking for books 
 when I was a boy ; then, becaufe I have learned 
 from it a good deal of old Tufcan words and 
 phrafes when I came to be a man. 
 
 La Guerra d* Atila flagello di Dio, tratta dall' 
 Archivo de' Principi da Efte. In Ferrara, per 
 Francefco de' Rcfii daValenza, 1 568, in quarto. 
 This romance is an abridgment of another ro- 
 mance, written in French verfe (fome fay Pro- 
 vincial) by Niccolb di Giovanni de Cafola of Bo- 
 logna,
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 267 
 
 logna, about the year 1350. The Italian a- 
 bridgment, quoted here, is faid by Fontanini to 
 be written in very good language \ Zeno fays 
 it is not fo good. As I have not feen the book 
 I cannot chufe my fide, but Zeno was a better 
 judge of fuch matters, and feldora or never 
 ventured an affirmation, without weighing it 
 well before he put it on paper. 
 
 La Vita di Merlino con fue Profezie, libri 6. In 
 Venezia, 1480, per Luca Veneziano ; and in 
 Venezia, 1529, in quarto, without the name 
 of the printer. It is fuppofed to be a transla- 
 tion, or rather an abftract, of an old French 
 book written by one Robert Burron. 
 See 'Ducange's Catalogue of the authors that fur- 
 nifhed him with words for his Gloffarium Latino- 
 barbarum, and abbot Lenglet in his Bibliotheque 
 of Romances. Thefe Profezie di Merlino were 
 tranflated into Tufcan by one Paolino, a trans- 
 lator from the French of the fourteenth century. 
 L' illuftre e famofa Iftoria di Lancilotto del Lago 
 che fu al tempo del Re Artu, nella quale fi fa 
 menzione de i gran fatti e dell' alta fua Caval- 
 leria, e di molti altri valorofi Cavalieri fuoi 
 Compagni della Tavola ritonda. In Vinegia, 
 per Michel Tramezzino, 1558, 3 vol. in octavo, 
 
 Le Opere Magnanime de' due Triftani, Cavalieri 
 della Tavola ritonda. In Vinegia, per Michel 
 Tramezzino, 1555, in octavo. 
 In the Privilege of the Senate of Venice, printed 
 with the work, it is faid, that this romance is 
 g tranflation from the Spanifli. Gli
 
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 Gli Egregi fatti del Gran Re Meliadus con altre 
 rare prodezze del Re Arm, di Palamides, A- 
 morault d* Irlanda, il buon Cavaliere fenza 
 paura, Galleault il Bruno, Segurades, Galaad, 
 ed akri valorofi Cavalieri di quel tempo. In 
 Venezia, per Giufeppe Guglielmo Vicentino, 
 1588, in octavo j and the fecond part with this 
 title, La Seconda Parte delie prodezze e afpre 
 guerre del Gran Meliadus Re di Leonis, & il 
 fuo innamoramento con la Morte, tradoito dal 
 Francefe nell' Italiana Favella. In Venezia, 
 1559, in octavo. 
 
 Torquato TaJJo fays, that one Arnaldo Daniello, 
 a Frenchman, was the author of the books of 
 tfriftanOy which, with the books of Meliadus, 
 compleat the fabulous ftory of the Round Table. 
 Thefe books, though full of very filly things, 
 will not be defpifed by any lover of poetry, 
 becaufe to them the Italians are obliged for 
 jfriofto's Orlando, and the Englifh for the Fairy 
 Queen of Spenfer ; befides they contain a great 
 deal of old Italian, though intermixed with 
 many old Gallicifms. The Academicians <&//# 
 Crufca quoted in their Dictionary an old rranf- 
 lation of the books of Trijlano, entitled La 
 Tavola Rotonda, from a manufcript translation 
 older and better than that upon which the above, 
 books were printed. 
 
 I have read many old romances, for the greateft 
 part tranflated from the Spanilh, as Palmer.ino 
 d* Uliva (or Oliva) il Cavalier dal Febo, il Cava- 
 lier
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 269 
 
 Her delta Spada Ardente, and many more : fomc 
 of them are in very good Italian, bur, as I have 
 not the books, nor find them regiftred in any 
 of thofe catalogues which I have under my 
 hand, I muft pafs them in filence. Our au- 
 thors of the feventeeth century, called by us 
 Scicentijli or Seccentifti, writ alfo many ro- 
 mances ; as, Calloandro^ Erometm, Coralbo^ 
 RamirOy &c. but they are almoft funk into a 
 total oblivion, and I do not think they deferve 
 Co be revived in this place. 
 
 Piofator
 
 ijo The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 affi?*33Hj53ssasas 
 
 Profatori e Romanzi, tradotti dal Greco e dal 
 Latino. Books of Amufemejit and Ro- 
 mance^ tranflated from the Greek and 
 Latin. 
 
 ARtemidoro Daldiano del Interpretazione 
 de' Sogni nuovamente di Greco in volgare, 
 tradotto per Pietro Lauro Modanefe. In Ve- 
 nezia, preflb il Giolito, 1542 and 1547, in 
 oAavo. 
 
 Interpretazione de* Sogni di Acmet, tradotta da 
 Tricafib Cerasari. In Venezia, 1546, in 
 octavo. 
 
 I do not know from what language this book 
 is tranflated, nor what the tranflation is, having 
 never feen it. 
 
 L* Efpofizione degl* Infonii, tradotte di Greco 
 per Leone Toscano, 1546, in octavo. 
 
 Eliodoro delle Cofe Etiopiche, tradotto dal Greco 
 in Tofcano per Leonardo Chini. In Venezia, 
 per il Giolito, 1560, in octavo. 
 
 Amorofi ragionamenti, ne' quali fi racconta un 
 Compaflionevole Amore di due Amanti, tra- 
 dotto da Lodovico Dolce da i Frammenti d' 
 un antico fcritto Greco. In Venezia, preflb il 
 Giolito, 1506. 
 
 This is a tranflation of part of the next book, 
 of Achilles Taiius. When Dolce tranflated it, 
 the Greek author was not yet afcertained. 
 
 Achijlc
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 271 
 
 Achille Tazio Aleffandrino dell' Amore di Clito- 
 fonte e Leucippe, tradotto di Lingua Greca in 
 Tofcana da Francefco Angdo Coccio. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Domenico Cavalcalupo, 1563, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Gli Amori d' Ifmenio compofti per Euftatio Filo- 
 fofo, e di Greco tradotti per Lelio Carani. 
 In Firenze, per Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550, in 
 odlavo. 
 
 Erafto ed i fuoi Compaflionevoli avvenimenti. 
 Opera dotta e morale, di Greco tradotta in vol- 
 gare. In Venezia, preffo il Giolito, 1558, in 
 duodecimo. Translator unknown. 
 
 Longo Sofifta, Romanzo, tradotto da Gio. Battifta 
 Manzini (not clofely, but with many altera- 
 tions.) In Bologna, 1643, in quarto. 
 
 Senofonte Efefio, degli Amori di Abrocome e 
 d' Anthia, libri 5, tradotti da Antonmaria 
 Salvini. In Londra, per Giovanni Pichard, 
 1723, in duodecimo. 
 
 The Greek original of this book is preferred 
 in the Medicean library at Florence, and was 
 publiflied, I think, about twenty years ago. 
 
 I dilettevoli Dialoghi, le vere Narrazioni, e le 
 facete Epiftoledi Luciano Filofofo, di Greco ia 
 volgare nuovamente tradotte ed iftoriate. In 
 Venezia, per Nicolo d' Ariftotile, 1525, in 
 octavo. 
 
 I know not if this tranflation is the fame as the 
 next, which is not very elegant. 
 
 8 I Dia-
 
 272 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 I Dialoghi di Luciano, di Greco tradotti per Ni- 
 cold da Lonigo. In Venezi-i, per Giovanni 
 de Farri, 154.1, in octavo. 
 
 Favole di Efopo, tradotce in Italhnoda Francefco 
 
 Tuppo. In Napoli, 1485, in folio, and in 
 
 Acquila, 1493, in folio. Printers unknown. 
 Favole di Efopo, tradotte dal Conte Giulio La*j- 
 
 di. In Venezia, per Domenico Farri, 1567, 
 
 in octavo. 
 La Vita di Efopo, tradotta e adornata dal Conte 
 
 Giulio Landi. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 
 1545, in octavo. 
 Le 400 Favole d* Efopo. In Venezia, 1607, in 
 
 octavo. Tranftator and printer unknown. 
 
 Apulejo dell' Afino d' Oro, tradotto del Conte 
 Matteo Maria Bojar do (author of the Orland 
 Innamorato.) In Venezia, per Nicolo d* Arif- 
 totile nel 15 18, in octavo \ e per Francefco 
 Viniziano, 1544, in octavo. 
 
 Apulejo dell' Afino d' Oro, tradotto per Agnolo 
 Firenzuola. In Firenze, per i Giunti, 1549, 
 1598, and 1603, in octavo. 
 This is a very free tranflition. Firenzuola re- 
 lates of himfelf the things happened to Apu- 
 lejus in the form of an a r s, and fubftitutes names 
 of Italian cities and places to the Greek ones, 
 with fome other changes after his own fancy : 
 but his book, as to language, is one of the 
 mod excellent we have in Italian, as well as all 
 his other works in profe. His poetry is far 
 from being fo good in its kind. 
 
 Apjtok
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 273 
 
 dpeftolo Zeno fay?, that, befides thefe two, there 
 are fame other tranQations of Apulejus's Golden 
 Afs, but I have feen no other. 
 Some years ago a learned Venetian and a friend 
 of mine, narhed Luigi Giujlo, propofed to fome 
 Italian Poets to make a burlefque epick poem 
 of the Golden Afs\ by tranQating it a book a- 
 piece in Ottava Rima. Four of the books I 
 have feen tranfiated t the firft by Carlo Cantom, 
 of Novellara, divided in three cantos ; the fe- 
 cond by Viltore Vettoriy a phyfician of Man- 
 tova, in two cantos ; the third by Dr. Gianma- 
 ria Galeotti of Mantua , and the laft by Luigi 
 Giufto himfclf. Vittore Vettori^ feeing that the 
 other poets did not do their talk, or for fome 
 reafon or other would not publifh their cantos, 
 printed his two in his Rime Piacevoli\ and as I 
 think that the other cantos will perhaps never 
 be printed, I beg leave to write down here the 
 four firft excellent ftanzas of Carlo Cantoni's 
 book, which I have kept in mind thefe twenty 
 years. Some readers will perhaps be obliged to 
 me for preserving them from oblivion, when I 
 tell them that Cantoni afibred me about ten year s 
 ago in Mantua, that he had loft the book in 
 which his cantos were written with fome other 
 pieces of his poetry. Befides that they will 
 enliven a little this my catalogue, I cannot help 
 giving my old, good, and revered mafter of 
 poetry this little teftimony of my affection 5 fo, 
 without any further apology, here they are. 
 
 T Canti
 
 274 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 Canti Omero a" Achille i fieri fdegni 
 Ed i Viaggi deW aftuto Ulijfe ; 
 Maron guidi in Italia a fondar Regni 
 II pio Trojan, come il Defiin prefijfe ; 
 Conduca il Tajfo fotto ifanti fegni 
 
 V Efercito fedel cbe /' Afia afflijje ; 
 Edahri ancor famofifien cantando 
 
 V InnamoraiOy il Furiofo Orlando. 
 Ma noi cbe non abbiamo egual la vena 
 
 A tanti di Parnafo eccelfi Eroi, 
 Sebbene il genio a verfeggiar ci mena, 
 Le Idee lafciamo cbe non fon da Noi : 
 Conlenti fiam cbe il nojlro canto appena 
 Alletti il VolgOy o almeno non V annoi : 
 Adunquefia del no fir o umil lav or o 
 Materia genial V Afino d y oro. 
 
 Lo trajfe dal Fibfofo Luciano 
 Lucio Apukjoy e lo defcrijfe in cartt, 
 E v' infer fe del proprio a mano a mano 
 Le Fole cbe vi fon per entro [parte : 
 Scandalofo peri fembra e malfano 
 Qualche racconto ivi locato ad arte 
 Per dimofirar cbe V Uom dedito al male 
 Non e pile ragionevole Animate. 
 
 Or di que ft a moral non knftcura 
 Di quando in quando afperfa e la Leggenda : 
 Ob cbe diletta ilfenfo e la natura 
 Troppo cbiaro I* Autor vuol cbe j* intenda : 
 Cost al vivo facendone pittura 
 II vizio ft f omenta e non s' etnenda : 
 Pregio adtmque fara della noftr* opra 
 Stendervi fopra un vel cbe il vizio copra. 
 
 M
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 275 
 
 La Fortuna di Cefare, tratta dagli Autori Litini. 
 In Venezia, per i! Giolito, 1550, in oftavo. 
 Antonfrancefco Doni is the author of this book. 
 
 Libro di MefTala Corvino ad Ottaviano Augufto 
 della progenie fua. In Venezia, 1554, in oc- 
 tavo, tranflator unknown ; and in Firenze, per 
 il Torrentino, 1549, in oftavo, translated by 
 Gio. Vincenzo Belprato Conte d* Anverfa. 
 
 Arrigo Cornelio Agrippa Vanita della Scienze, 
 tradotto per Lodovico Domenicht. In Ve- 
 nezia, 1549, in oftavo, without the name of 
 the printer. 
 
 Difputadi Simon Porzio Napoletano fopra quella 
 Fancialla della Magna, la qual vhTe due anni 
 e piu fenza mangiare e fenza bere, tradotta in 
 Lingua Fiorentina da Gio. Battifta Gelli. In 
 Firenze, without year, &c, 
 
 Trattato de Colori degli Occhi, di Simon Porzio 
 Napoletano, tradotto in volgare per Gio. Bat- 
 tifta Gelli. In Fiorenza, per lo Torrentino, 
 1551, in octavo. 
 
 Se I* (Jomo diventa buono o cattivo volontaria- 
 mente, Difcorfo di Simon Porzio, tradotto da 
 Gio. Battifta Gelli. In Firenze, per lo Tor- 
 rentino, 1551, in oftavo. 
 
 Modo di orare Criftianamente, con la Spofizione 
 del Pater Nofter di Simon Porzio Napoletano, 
 tradotto per il Gelli. In Firenze, 155 1, in 
 oftavo. 
 
 Simon Porzio was looked upon as one of the 
 
 greateft philofophers of his time. Camillo Por- 
 
 T % zio 9
 
 i 7 6 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 zio, author of the book entitled, Congiura de* 
 Baroni del Regno di Napoli contra il Re Ferdi- 
 nando Primo^ was his fon. 
 
 Opera di Francefco Petrarca, De* rimedi dell' una 
 e dell* altra Fortuna, tradotto per Remigio 
 Fiorentino. InVenezia, per il Gtolito, 1549* 
 in octavo. 
 A book of reputation. 
 
 I Dialoghi di Polidoro Virgilio, tradotti per Fran- 
 cefco Baldelli. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1550, in octavo. 
 
 Lettere,
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 277 
 
 ******* **i****+**44************#********** 
 
 Lettere. Letters. 
 
 E PISTOL A Confortatoria di Giovanni 
 Boccaccio mandota a Pino de' Rofll. In 
 Firenze, per M. Belardino Fiorentino, 1487, 
 in quarto. 
 An excellent thing. 
 
 J^rofe antiche di Dante, Petrarca, e Boccac- 
 cio, e di molci altri nobili e virtuofi ingegni. 
 In Firenze, preffo il Doni, 1547, in quarto. 
 Doni % who was both printer and collector of 
 thefe letters, would have done better to entitle 
 them Lettere inftead of Profe. 
 
 Formulario diEpiftole volgari miflive, e refpon- 
 five, ed altri fiori de ornati parlamenti, di Bar- 
 tolomeo Miniatore. In Bologna, per Ugo 
 Ruggieri, 1485, in quarto. 
 
 Del Segretario, di Francefco Sansovino, libri 6, 
 ne' quali con bell' ordine s' infegna altrui afcri* 
 ver Lettere. In Venezia, preffo Francefco 
 Rampazeto, 1564, in octavo. 
 
 J^ettere di tredici Uomini illuftri, raccolte da 
 Tomafo Porcacchi. In Venezia, (the beft 
 edition) per git Eredi di Gio. Maria Bonelli, 
 1 57 1, in octavo. 
 
 A mod valuable collection made by Dionigi 
 Atanagiy and not by Porcacchi. 
 
 Juova fcelta di Lettere di diverfi nobiliffimi Uo- 
 mini fcritte in diverfe materie, con un Difcorfo 
 T 3 della
 
 27S The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 della Comodita ddlo fcrivere di Bernardino 
 Pino. In Venezia, 1574! in octavo. Printer 
 unknown. 
 Lettere volgari di diverfi nobilifiimi Uomini, In, 
 Venezia, per Paolo Manuzio, 1564, in octavo, 
 three volumes bqund up in two. 
 Manu'.ius himfelf was the collector of thefe let- 
 ters, the greateft part of which are very good 
 as to language, as well as thofe above collected 
 by Dolce \ yet I wifli they had left off fome 
 that are too trifling and void of thinking. You 
 mud obferve, that the fuperlative epithet nobi- 
 Jijfimi, given in the title by Manutms to his au- 
 thors, does not mean that they were all of noble 
 race, but that they were noble minded. 
 
 Lettere de* P;*'ncipi, le quali o fi fcrivono da* 
 Principi a* Principi, o ragionano di Principi. 
 In Venezia, per Francefco Zilet i, (the bell edi- 
 tion) 1581, three volumes, in quarto. 
 
 A coftly book, in which there are many goo4 
 and curious things. 
 
 Lettere di diverfi Aurori eccellenti, libro primo, 
 nel quale fono i tredici Aatori illuftri, eil fiore 
 di quant' altre belle lettere fi fono vedute fin 
 qui : con moke Lettere del Bembo, del Nava- 
 gero, del Fracastoro, ed* a'tri famofi Au- 
 tori non piu dati in Luce. In Venezia,, prefifo 
 Giordano Ziletti all' infegna della Stella, 1556, 
 in octavo, Edizione 3. 
 
 Lodovico Dolce was the collector of thefe excel- 
 lent letters ; but it was blameable in him (fays 
 
 Zeno)
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 279 
 
 &eno) not to fell the reader that the greateft 
 part of them had already been collected by 
 Atanagi. 
 
 jLcttere di diverfi iiluftri Signori e Republkhe fcritte 
 a Vitellio Vitelli. In Firenze, per il Torrent ino, 
 155:, inoaavo. 
 
 yitelliy if I remember well, was one of thofe 
 rich noblemen of Italy, who, when the greateft 
 part of Italy was divided into fmall republicks 
 and petty monarchical eftates, keeping a num- 
 ber of foldiers in their own pay, hired out them- 
 felves and their followers to any prince that was 
 at war. They were called Condottkri. The 
 collector of thefe letters was Lelio Carani, 
 
 Lettere Amorofe di Madonna Celia gentildonna 
 Romana. In Venezia, per il Simbeni, 1572, 
 in duodecimo; 
 
 I have fome reafon to fufpect that the writer of 
 thefe letters was a man, and not at all in love 
 when he writ thefe frigid love-letters. 
 
 Lettere e Rime di Chiara Mat^ainj. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Nicolo Moretti, 1597, in quarto; 
 and in Lucca, per il Bufdrago, 1595, * n dftSvcu 
 E con una Letterain difefa delle Lettere e dell' 
 Armi. In Venezia, per Nicold Moretti, 1597, 
 in quarto. 
 
 I fpoke of this lady in another place. See Z./- 
 l>ri Teologici e Divoti. 
 
 J,ettere di molte valorpfe Donne, nelle quali chia- 
 
 ramente appare non effer ne di Eloquenza ne 
 
 di Dottrina agli Uomini infer iori. Letters by 
 
 T 4 many
 
 280 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 many excellent Ladies, in which it clearly appears 
 that they are not inferior to the Men either in Elo- 
 quence or Learning. I tranflate this title for the 
 fake of its gallantry. In Venezia, per il Gio- 
 lito, in octavo. 
 
 I have not feen thefe letters, which are very 
 fcarce -, but as they were written in an age where 
 wit and learning were in fafhion in Italy (alas ! 
 it is not fo now) among men and women, fo I 
 am fure many of them are gcod. 
 
 Piftolotti Amorofi del Doni, con alcune |L,ettere 
 di diverfi Autori, ingegni mirabili e nobiliflimi. 
 In Venezja, preflb il Giolito, 1552, in octavo, 
 Pijiolotto Amorofo means what the French mean 
 by Billet-doux ; yet thefe Pijlolojti by Doni are 
 rather Letters, the greateft part of them being 
 too long for this appellation ^ and I think the 
 author writ them in cold blood and in gay mo- 
 ments, being full of jefts and merriment rather 
 than love. 
 
 Lettere Amorofe di Girolamo Parabosco libri 6, 
 con aggiunte, ed in fine dueCanti de' Romanzi 
 in Ottava Rima. In Venezia, preflb Giorgio 
 de* Cavalli, 1 565, in octavo. 
 Thefe letters are very indifferent^ and fi> c pld, 
 that one cannot think Parabofto in love when he 
 writ them. 
 
 Lettere di Luca Contile. In Pavia, per Giro- 
 lamo Bartoli, 1564, two vol. in one, in octavo. 
 No bad letters thefe are, 
 
 Lettere 

 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 28? 
 
 Lettere di Bernardo T a sso. In Venezia, per il 
 Giolito, 1566, 1562, and 1575, in octavo. 
 Tliere are many other editions of thefe cele- 
 brated letters. The author was father of the 
 famous poet Torquato. 
 ]Lettere di Pietro Bembo. In Venezia, per Fran- 
 cefco Sanfovino, 1560, 4 vol. in octavo, with 
 a life prefixed to ir,. written by Sanfovino him- 
 felf. 
 
 There are many editions of the Letters by 
 this famous fecretary to pope Leo X. He 
 was born a nobleman of Venice, writ many 
 things in Greek, Latin, and Italian, with great 
 elegance , but the greateft part of his perfor- 
 mances feem to me too much elaborated and 
 wanting facility, except his Familiar Letters* 
 printed in Venice, per Francefco Rampazzeto, 
 1564, in octavo. For a man of his character, 
 l,earning 8 and dignity, he writ many things too 
 trifling, and fome of them immoral. Cardinal 
 Sadoleto, who was the other renowned fecretary 
 to pope Leo (the greateft patron of arts and 
 fciences that ever was in the world, excepting 
 only his father and grandfather) was a man of 
 a more ferious turn, and not inferior to Bembo 
 in literature ; but he publifhed few things in 
 Italian, and writ chiefly in Greek and Latin. 
 
 Pelle Lettere di diverfi Re e Principi, Cardinali 
 e altri Uomini Dotti, fcritte al Bembo (firft vo- 
 lume only.) In Venezia, per Francefco San- 
 fovino, 1560, in octayp. 
 
 S.anfovim 9
 
 %%2 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y, 
 
 Sanfovino, who was the collector of thefe letters, 
 promifed in the preface to print another volume 
 of Bemi>o's letters never printed before ; but 
 this was never done. 
 
 Piftole volgari di Nicola Franco. In Venezia, 
 1538, in folio. 
 Of this rogue I fpoke in another place. 
 
 Lettere di Girolamo Muzio Giuftinopolitano, di- 
 vife in 4 libri. In Pirenze, a fpcfe di Matteo 
 Galafli e Compagni, 1590, in quarto, fecond 
 edition. 
 
 This Muzio was a ftrenuous writer againft fome 
 apoftates from the Roman Catholick Religion. 
 He informs us in one of his Lettere Cattoliche^ 
 printed in Venezia, 157 1, in quarto, that the 
 pope gave him a decent fahry, (onefta prowi- 
 fane) that he might ftudy and write at his plea* 
 fure. I have fpoken of him in another place. 
 
 Lettere di Nicolo Martelli. In Firenze, 1546, 
 in quarto. The firft part only. 
 
 Rime, e Lettere di Vincenzo Martelli. See 
 Lyrick Poets. 
 
 The author was fecretary to Ferrante Sanfeve* 
 rino^ prince of Salerno, one of the numerous 
 patrons of arts and fciences of that age. 
 
 Lettere di Tomafo Costo. In Napoli, per Cof- 
 tantino Vitale, 1 604, in octavo. 
 An indifferent writer. 
 
 Lettere volgari di Paolo Manvziq, divife in libri 
 8. In Venezia, printed for Manwzio himfelf, 
 1556, in octavo i and in 1560, libro 4, in oc- 
 tavo. Manutius
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 283 
 
 fAanutius dedicated thefe letters to Antonio d* 
 Avila or Davila, grand conftable (gran contef- 
 tabile) of the kingdom of Cyprus, father to 
 Caterino Davila, the renowned hiftorian. All 
 Latin fcholars know who Paulus Manutius and 
 his father Aldus Manutius were. The inquifi- 
 tive after hooks muft obferve, that Paulus called 
 himfelf in Italian Manuzio, Mannucci, and 
 Manucci indifferently, and his father in Lafin 
 Manutius and Manucius, 
 
 l^ettere vojgari di Aldo Manucci. In Roma, 
 prdTo al Santi, 1592, in quarto. 
 
 This Aldo was fon of Paolo, grandfon of Aldo 
 Manuzio, (diftinguifhed by the appellation of 
 pld, or by that of Romano) and brother of An- 
 tonio Manuzio. A learned group ! This family 
 was originally of Bajfiano, a town in Latium, 
 now Campagna di Roma, not very diftant from 
 Velletri. 
 
 Lettere Familiari del Commendatore Annibal 
 Caro. 
 
 There are many old and new editions of thefc 
 letters -, but the beft is that of Padua, preflb il 
 Comino, 1735, 3 vol. in quarto. I havefeen 
 another edition, printed in Baffano for Remon- 
 diniy (if I remember right the printer's name) 
 in which there is an addition of Caro's letters 
 lately found and never before printed j there- 
 fore this mould be the beft, but I had not time 
 to examine it. 
 
 Annibal
 
 2*4 The I T A L I A N L I B R A R Y. 
 
 AnnibalCaro, as I have faid in another place, be- 
 his renowned tranflation of Virgil in blank 
 verfe, his lyrick poetry, and thefe letters, writ 
 alfo many compofuions, in profe and verfe, full 
 of fire, wit, and moft unchriftian virulence 
 againft the famous critick Lodovico Cqjielvetro > 
 who provoked him by writing fome few gram- 
 matical notes on an ode of Caro, which begins, 
 Venite all* Ombra^ &c. Their quarrel fat all 
 the learned world in a flame, and few of the 
 writers of that age in Italy kept neutral ; fome 
 followed one, fome the other leader. Time 
 and death could fcarce filence the champions, 
 whofe mad and fcandalous outrages are now al- 
 moft entirely forgotten. It is indeed (bameful 
 to human nature, that the moft; learned are ge- 
 nerally the keeneft in their hatred and debates. 
 But to leave this ungrateful fubject, Caro was a 
 moft elegant and eafy writer, and his letters are, 
 in my opinion, the beft in our language ; but, 
 as they were publifned after the author's death, 
 by an undifcerning nephew of his, many of 
 them now fwell the collection that Caro would 
 never have permi ted to fee the light, being 
 trifling and upon uninterefling fubjecls. A fo- 
 reigner cannot read a better book, if he will 
 learn the language of conversion that is fpoken 
 by the learned and polite Italians. 
 
 Lettere di Claudio Tolomei. In Venezia, per 
 il Giolito, 1541, i544 and 1549, in octavo i 
 and 1547, in quarto. 
 
 The
 
 The I T A L I A N L.I B R A R Y. 285 
 
 Thefe letters are not deftitute of elegance. STo- - 
 lomei was a learned man, and a cardinal : he 
 wanted to reform (embarafs I mould lay) our . 
 orthography , and was fo great an admirer of 
 the Latin poets, that he attempted to bring ours 
 to write Italian in exameters and pentameters* 
 Thanks to the Mufes, he was almoft alone r of 
 this abfurd mind. Each langjage has its par- 
 ticular turn and genius ; ours, in poetry, wilt 
 never do without rhime, and our beft verfe 
 will always be the hendecaflyllable. 
 Lettere di Antonio Minturno. In Venezia, per 
 
 Girolamo Scotto, 1549, in octavo* 
 Lettere Volga-i di Monfignor Paolo Giovio Vef- 
 covo di Nocera, raccolte per Lodovico Dome- 
 mchi. In Venezia, per Gio. Battifta, e Mar- 
 chio Sefla, 1560, in octavo. 
 This is Giovius^ the famous Latin hiftorian, 
 Many of thefe letters are full of wit, and con- 
 tain many historical and literary things very 
 curious and intereftino;. 
 Lettere del Sansovino, fopra le dieci giornate 
 del Decamerone del Boccaccio, 1543, in octavo. 
 
 Lettera Confolatoria di Girolamo Trojano, con 
 alcune Rime di eccellenti Autori nella Morte 
 di Lucrezia Cavalcanti. In Venezia, prefTo il 
 Giolito, 1569, in quarto. 
 
 Lettere di Giacomo Bonfadio, printed a few 
 years ago in Verona, in octavo, if I remember 
 well. 
 
 Of Bonfadio I fpoke in another place. 
 
 Lettere
 
 286 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Letcere di Sperone Speroni. Printed together 
 with his works 1740, as faid in another place. 
 
 Lettere del Cavalier Guarini, raccoke da Agof- 
 tino Michele. In Venezia, preflb il Ciotci 
 1593, in quarto. 
 
 Fontanini, in his Eloquenza haliana, calls thefe 
 letters of Guarini i alquanto verbofe ; that is, a 
 little verbofe, Zeno, in his notes on Fontanini* s 
 paflage, fays, that ihis verbofity is but fuppofed 
 by Fontanini, who was little favourable to the me- 
 mory and writings of that knight. Though I 
 refpect much more Zeno\ than Fontanim's 
 judgment in the main, yet I think Fontanini in 
 the right on this particular occafion ; nay* tho* 
 I am not an enemy to the memory of Guarini, am 
 not at all pleafed with his writings of any kind. 
 His profe was moliiffimo verbofa^ and his poetry 
 generally epigrammaucal, cold, and full of 
 falfe and unnatural thoughts. 
 
 Lertere di AnfaldoCEBA. In Genova, per Giu- 
 ieppe Pavoni, 1623, in quarto. 
 
 Lettere a Sara Copia Ebrea, by the fame Ceba. 
 In Genova, per Giufeppe Pavoni, 1623, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Sara Copia was a Jew lady of Venice, poiTefTed 
 of fome learning. Ceba or Ceba, in thefe let- 
 ters to her, endeavoured to make a chriftian of 
 her, but in vain. a!da]far Bonifacio, after- 
 wards bimopof Capodiftria, having heard that 
 (he did not believe the immortality of the foul, 
 directed a difcourfe to her, to which (he an- 
 
 fwered,
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 287 
 
 fwered, (fays Zeno) a propria giufrficazione con 
 un Manifejlo JlampatO) from which words I can- 
 not infer whether fhe believed it or not j and 
 the Manifejlo I never read. 
 
 Lettere del Cardinal (Guido) Bentivoglio, fcrittc 
 in tempo delle fue Nunciature. In Parigi, preffo 
 Pietro Recolef, 1635, in quarto. 
 
 I have feen a fmall volume of Bentivoglio*$ let- 
 ters printed in Cambridge, and I know that 
 they are in great repute amongft the French. 
 But if the Italians had no better letters than 
 thefe, they would be very poor in this branch 
 of literature. 
 
 Lettere del Tasso (that is Torquato.) They are 
 printed with his other works. 
 
 Delle Lettere facere e piacevoli di diverfi grandi 
 Uomini, raccolte da Dionigi Atanagi. In 
 Venezia, per Aldo, 1582, 2 yol. in octavo. 
 A foreigner may learn a great deal of our fa- 
 miliar language by reading thefe letters. 
 
 Lettere Scientirlche ed erudite del Conte Lorenzo 
 Magalotti. In Firenze, 1 721, in -quarto. 
 There is another volume, in quarto, of Lettere 
 Fami/iari by this Magalotti, who was a very 
 elegant writer, abating fome few gallicifrns. 
 The Familiari are againft Atbeifm. 
 
 Lettere di Pietro Aretino. 
 
 Thefe letters, printed in Paris, preflb Matteo 
 il Maeftro (le Maiftre) 1609, 6 vol. in octavo, 
 were printed many times in feparate volumes in 
 
 Venice,
 
 28S The ITALIAN LlBHARV. 
 
 Venice, while the author was living, who was 
 the firft Italian thatpub'ifhed familiar letters in 
 print. 
 
 I have regiftred Aretiho's letters laft, becaufe I 
 think them the worft we have in the language, 
 as to ftile , I mean that he was the worft writer 
 of our Cinquecentijli j though he has here and 
 there fome humorous or fatirical ftroke very 
 good. The man wanted to walk out of the 
 common road in every thing. He fiudied to? 
 be elevated, and was tumorous ; to be witty, 
 and was impious ; to be fincere, and was bru- 
 tal ; to be fatirical, and was malignant ; to be 
 the wonder of mankind, and became the 
 execration of the good *, to finifh his picture, 
 he called himfelf, the fcourge of princes , and 
 was beaten and mangled by men as deteft- 
 able as himfelf. The incomparable Arioflo 
 is highly blamable for two things : one, for 
 having inferted fome immoral tales in his poem,- 
 which would have been better in point of unity, 
 and would have charmed the foreigners, as 
 much as it does the natives, if he had left them 
 out ; the other is, for having joined the fervile 
 crowd of Aretino\ flatterers, and bellowed a 
 line in his laft canto in praife of this fcoundrel. 
 He would have done better to have imitated 
 Gabriello Faerno of Cremona, who writ this 
 Latin panegyrick on Signor Sferzo de J Princip. 
 Impura Lingua, qu< vensnis illita, 
 lmbuta felle noxio, 
 8 Craves
 
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 Graves fufurros fpargis t & fermonibus 
 
 Amara mifces toxica : 
 Conviciorum quis tuorum unquam modus ? 
 
 )uis terminus probris erit ? 
 >u<e finis impudentibus calumniis? 
 
 guibus impium virus vomis ? 
 In omnium aures, inclytamque Principum 
 
 Scelefta ; famam vellicas ? 
 Jam nulla Legum te refrenant Vincula % 
 
 Nulli coercent Obices 
 Timoris, aut Pudoris, aut AZqui 6? Boni, 
 
 Qu* cuncla pro nihilo putas. 
 Homines, Deofque fpernis, et Fas s? Ne/as, 
 
 Eodem babes in or dine. 
 Quid imprecer, virtutibus dignum tuis 9 
 
 O, viper a omni favior, 
 Nifi, ut cruenta, fecla carnificis manu, 
 
 Tetrumque fundens fanguinem 
 Miftum veneno, & ultima edensjibila, 
 
 Humifupremum palpites ? 
 Amongft many very fevere epitaphs made on Are* 
 tinoy this is the moft generally known. 
 Quzgiace VAretin Poeta Tofco, 
 Che dijfe mal d* ognunfuor cbe di Crifto, 
 Scufandoji con dir : Non lo conofco. 
 
 y Letterc
 
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 Lettere volgarizzate. Letters tranjlated into 
 Italian, 
 
 EP I S T O L E familiari di Cicerone, tradotte 
 fecondo i fenfi dell' Autore, e con figure 
 proprie della lingua volgare. In Vinegia, 
 pretfoi Figliuoli d 5 Aldo, 1545 and 1549, in 
 octavo. 
 
 The tranflator was Guido Lollio, fee Zeno*s notes 
 on Fontanini s Eloqumza) a man much efteemed 
 for his learning by Paulus Manutius and Anni- 
 bal Caro. 
 
 The fame, tranflated by Faufto da Longiano. 
 In Vinegia, preffo il Valgrifi, 1555, in octavo. 
 
 Le Piftole di Cicerone ad Attico, fatte volgari da 
 Matteo Senarega. In Venezia, preffo Paolo 
 Manuzio, 1553, in octavo. 
 Paulus Manutius faid of Senarega, Alumnum 
 difciplina mea, prajianti virum ingenio, natum 
 maximis rebus, docendi feribendique facultate ne- 
 mini prorfus at ate nojlra c once dent em. 
 
 L' Epiftole di M. Tuliio Cicerone, fcritte a 1VL 
 Bruto, nuovamente fatte volgaii da Ottaviano 
 Maggi. In Venezia, preffo i Figliuoli d* 
 Aldo, 1556, in octavo. 
 Maggi was a fecretary to the Venetian Senate, 
 
 and a man of learning. 
 
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 Epiftole di Plinio, del Petrarca, e di altri eccel- 
 lentifiimi Uomini, tradotte da Lodovico 
 Dolce. In Vinegia, appreflfo il Giolito, 1548, 
 in octavo. 
 
 This collection contains but few of Pliny's 
 epiftles . 
 
 Epiftole di Plinio, tradotte da Giovannantonio 
 Tedeschi. In Roma, per Giammaria Sal- 
 vioni, 1 71 7, in quarto. 
 
 Lettere di Q^Aurelio Simmaco, by the fame Te- 
 deschi. In Roma, prefib Girolamo Mai- 
 nardi, 1724, in quarto. 
 
 Volgarizzamento delle Epiftole di Seneca e del 
 Trattato della Provvidenza di Dio. In Fi- 
 renze, per Gaetano Tartini e Santi Franchi, 
 171 7, in quarto. Tranflator unknown. 
 They appear to have been tranflated about the 
 middle of the fourteenth century. 
 
 Epiftole di Seneca, tradotte in lingua Tofcana 
 per Antonio Francefco Doni. In Venezia, 
 
 1549. 
 
 Zeno has found out that Doni copied his trans- 
 lation from the next old book, and printed it 
 boldly under his own name, after having mo- 
 dernifed the ftile a little here and there. 
 
 Epiftole di Seneca volgarizzate da Sebaftiano Ma- 
 nilio. In Venezia, per li FraceJli Dinali, 
 1494, in folio. 
 
 Delle Divine Lettere del Gran Marfilio Ficino, 
 tradotte per Felice Figliucci Sanefe. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Gabriel Giolito, 1 563, in octavo, 2 vol. 
 U 2 Lettere
 
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 Lettere del Gran Maumetto Imperadore de* Tur- 
 chi, fcritte a diverfi Re, Principi, Signori, e 
 Repubbliche, con le rifpofte loro, ridotte nella 
 volgar lingua da Lodovico Dolce, infieme 
 con le Lettere di Falaride. In Vinegia, preflb 
 il Giolito, 1563, in octavo. 
 Theft- letters by Mahamed are thought fuppofr- 
 tious, as well as thofe by Pba!aris y which Gio- 
 lito had printed by themfelvts in 1545, in oc- 
 tavo. Phalaris's letters had been before tranf- 
 lated by Bartolomeo Fonzio, of Florence, from 
 Francefco Aretino\ Latin trandation, and printed 
 in Firenze, per Francefco Bjonaccorfi e Anto- 
 nio diTrancefco Veneziano, 1488. 
 
 Grammarian*
 
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 Grammarians and Criticks, 
 
 PROSE di Meffer Pietro Bembo, nellequali 
 fi ragiona dclla volgar lingua, 6JV. In Vi- 
 negia, per Giovanni Taccino, 1525, in folio. 
 Bembo employed twenty-five years in compiling 
 and correcting this book, which contains re- 
 marks on the Italian language, and rules to 
 write it well. This was the firft work, merely 
 grammatical, that deferved the attention of the 
 learned of Italy. The fame book was re- 
 printed in Napoli, per Bernardo Michele Rail- 
 lard e Felice Mofca, 17 14, in quarto, con le 
 Giunte di Lodovico Cafielvetro ; that is, with ad- 
 
 ditions by the famous critick Caftelvetro^ who 
 difapprovesfome of Btmbo's precepts, and, with 
 great fubtilty and fophiftry, ftrives to mow, 
 that Bembo deferves not the reputation he has 
 acquired as an Italian writer; but, to tell my 
 opinion of their profe, Bembo is not fo tire* 
 fome and tedious as his critick , and although 
 I cannot find any great fault in their writings, 
 yet I think they both wanted the art of de- 
 lighting while they endeavoured to inftrucl t 
 this is the reafon they are both much praifed, 
 and little read. 
 
 Modi affigurati e voci fcelte ed eleganti della vol- 
 gar Lingua, con un Difcorfo fopra i mutamenti 
 e diverfi ornamenti dell* Arioflo, di Lodovico 
 U 3 Dolce.
 
 294 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Dolce. In Venezia, prefib il Seffa, 1564, 
 in octavo. 
 
 The fecond part of this book, that is, the dif- 
 courfe on Ariofio, contains many curious things 
 relating to Arioftos Orlando. The firft will ra- 
 ther miflead than inftruct a foreigner, becaufe 
 
 Dolce, though no defpicable writer, never at- 
 tained to the utmoft niceties of our language. 
 
 Annotazioni della volgar Lingua di Giovanni Fi- 
 loteo Achillino. In Bologna, per Vincenzo 
 Bonardo da Parma e Marcantonio da Carpo, 
 1536, in octavo. 
 
 I regifter this book, that a foreigner may be- 
 ware of it. Achillino, being a great fcholar, 
 wanted to bring our language to refemble more 
 to the Latin that it naturally can. 
 
 Offervazioni della Lingua Italiana del Cinonio ; 
 that is, M. Antonio Mambelli, a Jefuit. In 
 Forji, per Giufeppe Selva, 1685, in duode- 
 cimo ; and the kcond part, in Ferrara, per 
 Giufeppe Gironi, 1644, in duodecimo. 
 I do not know why this fecond part was pub- 
 limed fome years before the firft, as it appears 
 by the dates. The book is of reputation, but 
 I have looked but little into it. 
 II Turamino (a dialogue) del parlare e dello fcriver 
 Sanele, del Cavalier Scipione Bargagli. In 
 Siena, per Matteo Florimi, 1602, in quarto. 
 The learned of Siena, who, even in our times, 
 will not al ! ow the primacy of language to the 
 Florentines, found a great advocate in Bargagli, 
 
 who,
 
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 who, in this book, ftrove to prove that the 
 Italian language ought to be called Sienefe 
 language. 
 
 L' Ercolano, Dialogodi Benedetto Varc hi, nel 
 qual fi ragiona delle Lingue, e in particolare 
 della Tofcana e della Fiorencina. In Firenze 
 preflb i Tartini e Franchi, 1730, in quarto, 
 the third edition, preceeded by a fhort dialogue, 
 fopra il nome della Lingua volgare, which fome 
 people think was writ by Macchiavelli. 
 Varchi writ this dialogue upon the occafion of 
 the great difpute between Annibal Caro and Lo- 
 dovico CaJlehetrO) mentioned in another place ; 
 and, by the generality of the Italians, is looked 
 upon as a mafter-piece of elegance. I find it 
 a little too prolix and dull. 
 
 Battaglie di Jeronimo Muzio Giuflinopolitano 
 per difefa dell' Italica Lingua, con alcune Let- 
 tere al Cefano, al Cavalcanti, a Renato Trivul- 
 zio, e a Domenico Veniero fopra il Corbaccio 
 e la Varchina, e con le note fopra il Petrarca. 
 In Venezia, preflb Pietro Dufinelli, 1582, in 
 octavo. 
 
 Of Muzio I fpoke in another place. This 
 book is a valuable one on all accounts, though 
 the title be a little whimfical. 
 
 Gli avvertimenti della Lingua fopra il Decame- 
 
 rone, del Cavalier Lionardo Salviati. In 
 
 Venezia, preffo li Fratelli Guerra, 1584, vol. 
 
 the firft ; and in Firenze, nella Stamperia de 
 
 Giunti, 1586, vol. thefecond, in quarto. 
 
 A good book. 
 
 U 4 Trattato
 
 i 9 6 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Trattato della vera Origine, e del Progrefib e 
 Nome della noftra Lingua, fcritto in volgar 
 Sanefe, da Celfo Cittadini, con un breve 
 trattatello deg'i articoli, &c. In Venezia, per 
 Giambattifta Ciotti, 1601, in octavo. 
 Cittadini, born at Rome, but originary of 
 Siena, had fuch an affection for the language 
 of his parents' country, that he ftudied theSie- 
 nefe, and fcorned the Florentine dialect ; yet, 
 although in the wrong, I did not chufe to leave 
 this and fome other of his works out of this 
 library, becaufe he was a man of genius and 
 learning ; and a foreigner, that fludies our lan- 
 guage, will find fome pleafure in psrufing his 
 writings, and compare tbe two dialects 'ogether. 
 
 Trattato della Lingua di Jacopo Pergamini da 
 Fofibmbrone. In Venezia, preffb i Giunti, 
 1536, in o&avo. 
 Zeno calls this> un utile gramalica. 
 
 L' Anticrufca, overo il Paragone dell* Italiana 
 
 Lingua, di Paolo Beni. In Padova, per Bat- 
 
 tifta Martini, 1613, in quarto. 
 Rifpofta di Orlando Pescetti all' Anticrufca di 
 
 Paolo Beni. In Verona, per Angelo Tamo, 
 
 1 61 3, in quarto. 
 II Cavalcami, ovvero difefa dell' Anticrufca, di 
 
 Michelangelo Fonte ; that is, of Paolo Beni. 
 
 In Padova, per Francefco Bolzetta, 1614, *n 
 
 quarto. 
 
 Though at prefent, as I have often obferved, 
 
 the Florentine dialect has prevailed over all the 
 
 other
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 297 
 
 other dialects of Italy, and is the only one ge- 
 nerally accepted and acknowledged for the belt 
 to write in, yet it was not fo a century ago. 
 The Academicians della Crufca and the num- 
 berlefs Florentine writers had much ado to get 
 the upper hand, and when their academy firft 
 publifhed their dictionary, a multitude of na- 
 tives of other cities of Italy flew in their faces, 
 and writ many volumes againft it : amongft 
 their mod formidable rivals was this Paolo Beni, 
 a man of very extenfive learning, who put 
 them to great trouble. The late Salvino Sal- 
 vini had amongft his books a copy of the An- 
 ticrufca, with multitude of marginal notes by 
 his brother Antonmaria Salvini. I wifh it was 
 printed. Pefcetli writ with fo great warmth his 
 Rifpofia, that is, the defence of his own 
 book, that Pignoria y in a letter to Paolo Gualdo, 
 (lellere d* Uomini illujlri, in Venezia, preflb ii 
 Baglioni, 1744, pag. 163) calls it, mordace 
 fcrittura, and adds thefe remarkable words : 
 II Pefcetti s* apparecchia allarifpofta chenon fara 
 piacevole ; e d to per me credo cbe ft verifichera il 
 vaticinio del Cavalier Tedefcbi, cbe quefla contefa 
 Ji e cominciata colle penne e ft terminer a co' pifto- 
 leji ; that is, Pefcetti prepares bimfelf to give 
 Bent a fecond anfwer, which will not pleafe him ; 
 and) for my part, I believe the prophecy of Cava- 
 Her (Giandomenico) Tedefchi will be verified, 
 that this difpute began with pens, and will end 
 
 with
 
 2$8 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 with cutlaffes. Yet the quarrel was ftopt, and 
 it would have been ftrange, if the learned 
 champions had come to finifh the caufe of lan- 
 guage, as Don Quixote wanted to finifh that 
 of Dulcinea. 
 
 La Rettorica di BartolomeoCAVALCANTi Genti- 
 luomo Fiorentino, divifa in 8 libri, dove fi 
 contiene tutto quello che appartiene all' Arte 
 Oratoria. In Vinegia, appreflb Gabriel Gio- 
 lito de' Ferrari, 1560, in folio. 
 
 This book is defervedly looked upon with the 
 utmoft veneration by our learned. Yet I wifh 
 Cavalcanti had not ciceronianized fo much his 
 ftile, a,nd let his natural genius work on with- 
 out conftraint. I fpoke of this author in ano- 
 ther place. 
 
 Delia Rettorica di GiafonDENoRES, libri 3, ne' 
 quali oltra i precetti dell' Arte fi contengono 
 venti Orazioni, tradotte da* piu famofi e illuftri 
 Oratori. In Venezia, per Paolo Mejetto, 1584, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Zeno 9 fpeaking of this and two other works of 
 De Nores on rhetorick, fays, Tbefe works are 
 not only treated by this author in familiar dif~ 
 courfes, but alfo demonftrated with trees, which 
 was the common method in the fchools of his time, 
 as we may fee in the books of Tofcanella, Ro- 
 bertello, Valentino, Eritreo, and other mqfters, 
 as well in Italy as out of it -, but 9 in our days, 
 
 it
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 299 
 
 it is quite left off, becaufe eafier and quicker ways 
 of teaching have been found. 
 
 Demetrio Falereo delta Locuzione, volgarizzato 
 da Pier Segni, con Poftille al tefto ed efempli 
 Tofcani conformati a* Greci. In Firenze, per 
 Cofimo Giunti, 1603, in quarto. 
 A very elegant performance. The fame book 
 was alfo elegantly tranflated by Mar cello Adri- 
 ani il Giovane, and printed in Firenze, per Gae- 
 tano Albizzini, 1738, in octavo, with a pre- 
 face by Antonfrancefco Gori, in which he tells 
 us many things relating to this tranflation and 
 its author. 
 
 Trattato del fublime di Dionifio Longino volga- 
 garizzato da Antonfrancefco Gori. In Ve- 
 rona, per Alberto Tumermanni, 1733, m 
 quarto, with the Greek original and two other 
 tranllations ; one in French by Boileau, the 
 other in Latin by Bcivin, with notes. 
 A book highly valuable on all accounts. 
 
 I tre libri della Rettorica d' Ariftotele a Teodette 
 tradotti in Lingua volgare da Aleffandro Pic- 
 colo mini. In Venezia, per Francefco Fran- 
 cefchi, 1571, in quarto. 
 
 Piccolomini, in his preface, fays, that he faw 
 two tranllations of Ariftotle's Rbetorick printed 
 before he publifhed his own. May be one was 
 that by Annibal Caro, regiftred in the Collana 
 Greca ; the other was perhaps the next, which 
 is very fcarce. 
 
 Tradozione
 
 300 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Tradozione ancica della Rettorica d' Ariftotele, 
 nuovamente trovata. In Padova, per Giacomo 
 Fabriano, 1548, in octavo. 
 Figliucciy who was the editor of this ancient 
 tranjlation newly found, (that is, found cafu ally- 
 by him in his convent) argued, that its author 
 was of Siena, from the many Sienefe phrafes 
 that he thought to perceive in it. The lovers 
 of antiquity value much this verfion. 
 
 I Romanzi di Giambattifta Pigna al S. Donno 
 Luigi da Efte Vefcovo di Ferrara, divifi in 
 libri 3, ne' quali della Poefia e della Vita dell' 
 Ariofto con nuovo modo (i tratta. In Vine- 
 gia, per Vincenzo Valgrifi, 1554, in quarto. 
 A very curious and valuable book. 
 
 II Gonzaga, ovvero del Poema Eroico, Dialogo 
 di Anfaldo Ceba. In Genova, per Giufeppe 
 Pavoni, 1621, in quarto. 
 
 La Poetica d* Ariftotele vulgarizzata e fpofta per 
 Lodovico Castelvetro. In Vienna d' Auf- 
 tria, per Gafpero Stainofer, in quarto ; and in 
 Bafilea (with fome additions) a iftanza, di Pie- 
 tro de Sedabonis, 1576, in quarto. 
 The firft of thefe editions is valued more than 
 the fecond, becaufe there are eight (hort paf- 
 fages left off in the fecond, which have been 
 written by the author (the editors fay) without 
 any malice, but in thefe nice times we are afraid 
 would perhaps give offence to many devout perfons ; 
 that is to fay, would difpleafe a Roman Catho- 
 Jick, becaufe they are in derifion of the Roman 
 
 church.
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 301 
 
 church. As I have looked into the firft edi- 
 tion, I think thefe editors would have done 
 better to curtail their fecond a little more, and, 
 in particular, drop a pafifage, in which our Sa- 
 viour is irreverentially ranked with Homer and 
 Ariftotle. Cajlelvetro, as I have mentioned in 
 another place, had a very fharp literary quarrel 
 with Annibal Caro, who got fo much the better 
 of him, as to have him excommunicated, and 
 forced to leave his native country ; and, even 
 in our days, they have flill their partifans in 
 Italy. My opinion of them is, that Caro was 
 little inferior to Cajlelvetro for learning, but 
 much fuperior to him in Italian language and 
 poetry. Nay, I will venture to fay, that Cajlel- 
 vetro writ truly like a pedant; and no book, 
 that I know, is more tirefome to read than his 
 Poetica. Menagius tell us, that while CajleU 
 vetro was in Lyons, the houfe, in which he 
 lived, was accidentally kt on fire ; upon which 
 he began to cry out, La Poetica, la Poetica, 
 falvatemi la Poetica. 
 
 Annotazioni di Alefifandro Piccolomini fopra la 
 Poetica d* Ariftotele, con la Traduzione del 
 medefinio libro in Lingua volgare. In Vene- 
 zia, per Giovanni Varifco, 1575, in quarto. 
 Tajfo, in his letters, gives the fuperiority to 
 Pkcolomini on Cajlelvetro for critical judgment ; 
 but to Cajlelvetro on Pkcolomini for erudition 
 and invention. 
 
 Le
 
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 Le OfTervazioni di Francefco Alunno da Ferrara 
 fopra il Pctrarca. In Vinegia, per Paolo Ghe* 
 rardo, 1550, in octavo. 
 At the beginning of this work, there is a 
 critical catalogue of all the words ufed by Pe- 
 trarch. Many of our Cinquecentijli valued 
 themfelves on never employing a word that was 
 not to be found in that catalogue ; hence they 
 are ludicroufiy called in Italy Petrarchifii Magri. 
 Alunno was a man of learning ; but his chief 
 qualification was to write a fine hand, and had 
 a good falary from the Venetians to teach their 
 Giovani delta Cancellaria (Chancery -Clerks.) 
 Being at Bologna, he prefented to the emperor 
 CharlesV. the Apoftles creed and a portion of the 
 gofpels, written by himfelf in fo fmall a letter, 
 that they took no more room than a farthing. 
 I report this idle anecdote for the fake of its 
 Angularity. 
 
 Vocabolario Tofcano dell' Arte del Difegno, di 
 Filippo Baldinucci. In Firenze, per Santi 
 Franchi, 168 1, in quarto. 
 A ufeful dictionary for thofe that profefs the 
 art of drawing. Baldinucci was a Florentine 
 ftatuary of reputation in his way. 
 
 Proverbi Italiani, di Orlando Pescetti. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Lucio Spineda, 161 8, in duodecimo: 
 Paolo Beni t in his dialogue, entitled Cavalcanti, 
 gives many lafhes to Pefcetti for having en- 
 titled his book Proverbi, though they are only 
 
 many
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY, 303 
 
 many fayings not proverbial ; yet a foreigner 
 may learn much of our converfation-language 
 from this book. 
 
 Vocabolario degli Accadimici della Crusca; 
 
 This dictionary has been the work of the whole 
 body of our Academicians, who, by degrees, 
 brought it to contain forty-four thoufand of 
 primitive words, as Antonmaria Salvini affirms* 
 who gave himfelf the trouble of counting them 5 
 to which add their derivatives ; as, from 
 Dio, divino^divinita, Deifta, &c. from Ess ere, 
 fono, fei, fiarno, faro, faranno x &c. their accref- 
 citivi, (as we call them) as from Donna, donnone, 
 donnona, donnaccia, &c. their diminutivi, as 
 from Gatto, gattino % gattcrello, gattuccio, &c 
 their peggiorativi, as from Medico, medicuzzo % 
 medicaftrO) medkonzolo, &c. their vezzeggiativi* 
 as from Bacio, baciuzzo, baciozzo, &c. their 
 compofti, as ambidejlro, ambidue, pocofila, fpac- 
 camonti) and a multitude of fuch words, which 
 are all very fignificant if judicioufly ufed; add 
 thefe words, I fay, to their primitives and radi- 
 cals, and it will be eafily proved, that the Italian 
 is more copious in words and phrafes than any 
 of the living languages. We are under great 
 obligation to the grand dukes of Tufcany for the 
 patronage conftantly and generoufly afforded to 
 the Academicians, fo that they have been en- 
 abled to enlarge it from time to time, and at 
 laft bring it to the perfection to which it rofe in 
 the lait edition. Of no work were ever the Flo- 
 rentines
 
 3 04 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 rentines fo proud as of this, which has at laft 
 frifured to their dialed the primacy over all other 
 Italian dialects. They will tell you, with truth 
 and exultation, that no nation has a work of 
 this kind fo perfect as this ; and, indeed, the 
 dictionary of the French Academy, as well as 
 that of Furetiere, are fcarcely to be compared 
 with ours. The Spaniards boaft much of the'rrs> 
 which I have never feen ; but if any dictionary 
 can difpute the pre-eminence of lexicography 
 with that of the Crufca, it is that, in my opinion, 
 of the Englifh language, lately publifhed by 
 Samuel Jobnfon. Yet mail the Italians believe 
 it, when I go back to my native country to 
 tell them that fuch a noble and voluminous per- 
 formance is the work of a fingle man ; that I 
 faw, with my own eyes, one half of it grow- 
 ing under the pen of this writer in thefpace of 
 three years ; that he had neither help from the 
 learned, nor patronage from the rich ; that his 
 definitions are, in general, even more concife and 
 philofophical than thofe of our academicians ; 
 that his examples contain almoft all the axio- 
 matical knowledge abundantly fpread in the 
 beft Englilh books ; that it has an undilputable 
 advantage over our dictionary in the etymolo- 
 gical part 5 that the preface, prefixed to it, is 
 even fuperior for elegance and power of think- 
 ing to ours. But how will they wonder, 
 when I (hall add, that a work, which deferved 
 not only publick praifcs, but publick reward ; a 
 
 work
 
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 work that has raifed the admiration (as I know- 
 it did) of our very academicians; a work that no 
 body could have undertaken alone, but a Samuel 
 Jobnfon, has raifed an unnatural and brutal 
 clamour amongft his countrymen, a multitude 
 of whom, with little fuccefs indeed, but with the 
 utmoft efforts of malice, endeavour to obftruct 
 the circulation of fuch a long-wifhed and ufe- 
 ful dictionary ; and that ten narrow and con- 
 temptible criticifms were written againft it for 
 one poor panegyrick bellowed upon it. Who 
 ever fufpected before, that fo generous and fo 
 learned a nation abounded fo much in unthank- 
 ful, malignanr, and truly vulgar individuals! 
 Dizionario Tofcano, Compendio del Vocabolario 
 della Crufca, con la nota di tutte le differenze 
 di Lingua, che fono traquefti due Populi Fio- 
 rentino e Senefe di Adriano Politi. In Roma, 
 appreffo Angelo Ruffinelli, ftampaco per Gia- 
 como Mafcardi, 1614, ' n octavo. 
 The addition of Compendio del Vocabolario della 
 Crufca in the title was an arbitrary addition of the 
 printer ; this dictionary being (imply a dictionary 
 of the dialect of Siena. Politi was a learned 
 man, and, out of love for his native place, a 
 great fupporcer of his countrymen's pretenfions 
 to the primacy of language in Italy, at which 
 they have been aiming thefe twocenturies at leaft, 
 as I have repeatedly obferved in this library. 
 This work of his gave offence to fome of the 
 Academicians of the Crufca, who began a pro- 
 fecution at Rome againft him ; but Politi found 
 
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 protectors that fcreened him againft the violence 
 of the turbulent Bajliano de Rqffi, the keeneft 
 of his Florentine enemies, and no harm befel 
 him. It is worth the trouble of a foreigner to 
 look into it, and fee the difference between the 
 two rival dialects. I have feen another dictio- 
 nary by Girolamo Gigli of Siena, entitled, D;~ 
 zionario Cateriniano, (not compleat) which was 
 burnt by the hands of the hangman, as con- 
 taining not only a multitude of things againft 
 the Academicians of the Crufca and the Flo- 
 rentines in general, but many fatirical reflections 
 on his fovereigns the grand dukes ; as for in- 
 ftance, under the word Granduca, Giglio 
 fays, vedi Gabelle (fee Taxes) , and under the 
 word Gabella, he adds, vedi Granduca (fee 
 Grand Duke) , as if Grand Duke and 'Taxes 
 were fynonimous words. When the Englifh 
 travellers get into Italy, as I have obferved, 
 they generally fall into the hands of ignorant 
 mafters of language, who make them believe 
 that the Sienefe pronunciation is better than the 
 Florentine, and that Gigli's Grammar is the 
 belt ; but they are deceived, if they will take 
 my word. Buonmattei*s Grammar, regiftred 
 above, is the only one they can truft to; the 
 authors they muft read, are the Florentines in 
 general ; and as to the pronunciation it is ab- 
 furd to fuppofe, that a man mud learn the lan- 
 guage in one country, and the pronunciation in 
 another, as Veneronfs foolifh proverb imports, 
 
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 Lingua Tofcana in bocca Romana. Both the Ste~ 
 nefe and the Romans pronounce ill, and our 
 true pronunciation is that of the learned and 
 the polite people at Florence. In this book, 
 written for the ufe of this nation, I think my- 
 felf obliged to oppofe, as often as I can, the 
 popular prejudices, that my reader may not be 
 impofed upon by ignorant teachers. 
 
 Vincenzo Gravina, delle antiche Favote. In 
 Roma, per Antonio de' Roffi, 1696', in duo- 
 decimo. 
 
 Di Vincenzo Gravida, delta Tragedia, libro 
 uno. In Napoli, per Nicola Nafo, 1715, In 
 quarto. 
 
 Ragion Poetica, Jibri due di Vincenzo Gravina.' 
 In Napoli, preflb Domenico Antonio Parrin> 
 1 7 1 5, in octavo* 
 
 Gravina was of Naples. He was thought the 
 mod learned man of his age, and is ftilfr con- 
 fidered as the greateft crkick, next Caftelmtr& % 
 that Italy has produced. Every one of his works 
 is full of erudition and thinking ; but I could 
 never adopt many of his opinions and criticifms 
 on poetry, it Teeming to me that he had no 
 regard for any poetical performance, that did 
 not fquare with the rules of Ariftotle. Should 
 any body weigh, for inftance, Sbakefpeare- in 
 the Ariftotelian fcales, he would find hira much 
 defective 5 yet, was not Sbakefpeare at leaft as 
 great a tragick as any Grecian ? This is the 
 cafe with many Italians. Arioftg^ Pulci, Dante* 
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 Berni, and fome others did not quite conform 
 to Anltode's precepts, yet confult your heart, 
 rather than Ariftotle, when you read them,. 
 and you will find them to be poets. They 
 will make you feel it in fpight of the moft fubtle 
 crittck. Gravina was alfo the keeneft fupporter 
 of Triffino's opinion,, that blank Italian verfe is 
 fitter for epick or dramatical poetry than rhyme ^ 
 and here alfo I differ from him totally. For art 
 edition of Trijfmo's epick poem we have a hun- 
 dred editions of Ariofto's and Tajfo's. Few 
 people read the Italia Uberata ; nations ling 
 the Orlando Furiofo and the Gerufalemme. Flow 
 can we then give the preference to the poem 
 that is read by few people, to that read and 
 committed to memory by every body ? The 
 fact runs down all arguments to the contrary ;. 
 and this, in my opinion, would be the cafe, if 
 we had as good tragedies and comedies in rhime, 
 as we have epick poems. But let not an En- 
 glifh reader miftake me ; what I fay of the 
 Italians cannot be faid of the Englifh, becaufe 
 every language has its genius and peculiarities; 
 To return to Gravina, it is faid, that he miffed 
 a cardinal's har, becaufe of his fatirical and fe- 
 vere turn of mind. When he was at Rome, 
 he ufed to bow to coach- horfes ; becaufe, faid 
 he, was it not for the poor beajls, thefe great 
 people would have men^ and even pbilofophers, to 
 draw their coaches. Metafiafio was his difciple. 
 L* Iftoria e i Comentari dclla volgar Poefia, di 
 Giovanni Mario Crefcimbeni. In Roma, per 
 
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 Antonio de* Roffi, 1702, 1710, 1711, 1714, 
 j vol. in quarto. There is another edition 
 made in Venice, in 6 vol. which is reckoned 
 better than the Roman. 
 
 Crefcimbeni was a man of much reading, and, 
 in this hiflory and commentaries, he tells many 
 things that deferve the notice of the ftudious. 
 But he lavifhes fuch epithets of praife on great 
 many ancient and modern mofl contemptible 
 verfe-makerj, his fti!e has fuch a laxity, and is 
 fo full of verbofity about every trifle, that I 
 cannot hold up the book in my hands for ten 
 minutes together, 
 
 One father ghadrio, a Jefuit, writ alfo a book 
 in five or fix large volumes in quarto, printed 
 at Milan by Francefco Agnelii a few years ago, 
 entitled, (if I remember well) Storia e Ragione 
 d? ogn'i Poefia^ which I take to be the com- 
 pleateft book of this kind, and greatly fuperior 
 to Crefcimbeni* $.. I was very young when I faw 
 the firft volumes at Milan, and thought, at 
 that time, that the author could leave out many 
 uninterefling things ; but, as I have it not under 
 my eye at prefent, I mall not fpeak further 
 of it. 
 
 I leave out the numberlefs critical books that 
 were written for or againft our chief poets and 
 writers, becaufe it would increafe mine too 
 much. The curious may find them, for the 
 greatest part, regiftred in the two following 
 fcibliotheques. 
 
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 Biblioteca Italiana, o fia Notizia de' Libri ran 
 neila Lingua Italiana. In Venezia ed in Mi- 
 lano, 1 741, in quarto. 
 
 The compiler was Nicola Francefco Haym of 
 Rome. The above edition has the price fet 
 down in the margin of each Italian book, ac- 
 cording to Haym's capricious evaluation. 
 
 Biblioteca dell' Eloquenza Italiana, di Monfignore 
 Giufto Fontanini arcivefcovp d' Ancira, con 
 le Annotazioni del Signor Apoftolo ZENoIfto- 
 rico e Poeta Cefareo, Cittadino Veneziano. 
 Venezia, 1753, preflfo Giambattifta Pafquali, 
 2 vol. in quarto. 
 
 ZeKOj with his copious notes, has corrected nu- 
 merous blunders committed by Fontanini in his 
 work, and illuftrated it much , and of thofe 
 notes efpecially I made a very free ufe in 
 compiling this my library, which, without 
 them, I could never have carried on ; but I 
 did not quote his name wherever I copied and 
 Cranflated from him, to avoid a difguftful re- 
 petition. 
 
 FittAira,
 
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 Pittura, Scultura, ed Architettura. 
 
 LETTER A di Gio. Batiifta Adriani a 
 Giorgio Vafari fopra gli antichi Pittori no- 
 minati daPlinio. In Firenze, 1567, in quarto. 
 Of Adriani I fpoke in another place. Of Va- 
 fari I mall fpeak, when I come to his works. 
 
 La Pittura di Leon Battifta Alberti, tradotta per 
 Lodovico Domenichi. In Venezia, per il 
 Giolito, 1547, in octavo. 
 
 The original of this book is in Latin. This 
 Alberti, befides being an excellent Latin fcho- 
 lar, was fo great an architect, that his contem- 
 poraries called him, II Vitruvio Italiano. 
 
 Origine e Progreflb dell' Accademia del Difegno, 
 de' Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti di Roma, 
 dove fi contengono molti utilhTimi Difcorfi e 
 filofofici ragionamenti appartenenti alle fudette 
 profeflioni, ed in particolare ad alcune nuove 
 definizioni del Difegno, della Pittura, Scoltura, 
 ed Architettura ; ed al modo d' incamminar i 
 Giovani e perfezionar i Provetti ; recitati fotto 
 il reggimento del Cavalier Federico Zuccari, e 
 raccolti da Romano Alberti Segretario dell' 
 Accademia. On the Origin and Progrefs of the 
 Academy of Drawing ; on the Painters and Ar- 
 chitetls of Rome: that is, pbilofopbical and ufe- 
 ful Vifcourfes on the faid Profefms, and efpecially 
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 new Definitions of Drawing, Painting, Carving, 
 and Architecture \ and on the Manner of directing 
 Beginners and -perfecting Mafters, recited in the 
 time that Federigo Zuccari dire tied the f aid Aca- 
 demy, and collected by Romano Aiberti, fecretary 
 to the fame Academy. In Pavia, preffo il Bar- 
 toli, 1604. 
 
 The Academy for Drawing, which Aiberti men- 
 tions in the above long title, was founded in 
 Rome, in the year 1593, under the patronage 
 of cardinal Federico Borromeo archbifhop of 
 Milan, by Federico Zuccari of Urbino a painter 
 of great name, and a poet of fome reputation. 
 It was he that painted the church of St. Lau- 
 rence, at the Efcurial in Spain, at the command 
 of Philip II. Aiberti collected the inftitution 
 and laws of the academy, and alfo the dif- 
 courles recited in it, while the founder directed 
 it for a year; amongft which difcourfes there 
 are fome by Zuccari himfelf. The academy 
 fubfifted but a few years, and was diffolved 
 through the negligence of its members, to the 
 great detriment of thofe arts. 
 
 Dialogo d' AllefTandro Allori Pittore Floren- 
 tine, fopra T arte del difegnare le figure, prin- 
 cipiandoda' Mufcoli, OfTa, Nervi, Vene, Mem- 
 bra, Notomia, e Figura perfetta. In Firenze, 
 1590. 
 
 I do not know what character Allori had as a 
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 De' veri Precetti della Pittura di Gio. Battifta Ar- 
 menini da Faenza. In Ravenna, 1587, in 
 quarto-, and in Venezia, 1678, in quarto. 
 A book of little reputation, and inelegantly 
 written. 
 
 Avvertimenti e Regole circa V Architettura Ci- 
 vile, Scoltura, Pittura, ed Architettura milL 
 tare, per offefa e difefa di Fortczze 5 di Pietro 
 Antonio Barca. In Milano, 1620, in folio, 
 with cuts. 
 The cuts render this book of fome value. 
 
 Difcorfodiftinto inquattro Capitoli, nel primo de* 
 quali fi dilcorre del Difegno, &c. di Gafparo 
 Colomba. In Padova, 1623, in folio, with 
 cuts. 
 A book of reputation. 
 
 Le Vite de* Pittori ed Architetti, &c. di Gio. 
 Paolo Baglioni Romano. In Roma, per 
 Andrea Fei, 1642 and 1649, in quarto. 
 
 Breve Compendio della Vita di S. Lazaro Monaco 
 e Pittore, defcritta da Lazaro Baldi. In Roma, 
 1681, in 16 . 
 I know neither Baglioni nor Baldi. 
 
 Notizia de' ProfeiTori del Difegno, di Filippo 
 Baldinucci, da Cimabue in qua. In Firenze, 
 per Santi Franchi, 1681, in quarto. 
 Second vol. in Firenze, per Pier Matini, 1686, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Third vol, 1688, in quarto. 
 Fourth vol. per Giuleppe Manni, 1702, in 
 quarto. 
 
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 Cominciamento e ProgrefTo dell' arte dell' inta- 
 liar in rame, con le Vice de' piu eccellenti 
 Maeftri della ftefTa Profefiione, di Filippo 
 Bbldinucci. In Fiorenza, per Lorenzo Van- 
 gelifti, 1682, in quarto. 
 
 Vita del Cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernini, di Fi- 
 Jippo Baldinucci. In Firenze, per Lorenzo 
 Vangelifti, 1682, in quarco. 
 Baldinucci I mentioned in another place. 
 
 Raccolta de' Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Mo- 
 donefi piu celebri, per Don Lodovico Ve- 
 driani da Modena. In Modena, 1662, in 
 quarto. 
 A tedious book to read. 
 
 Le Vite de' Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti mo- 
 derni, fcritte da Gio. Pietro Bellori. In 
 Roma, per il Mafcardi, 1672, in quarto, with 
 portraits on copper- plates. 
 A book of reputation and price. Dryden gives 
 ? fpecimen of Vallori's way of writing in his 
 preface to Du Frefnoy. 
 
 Defcrizione delle Imaginidipinteda RafTaeld' Ur- 
 bino nelle Camere del Palazzo Apoftolico del 
 Vaticano, di Gio. Pietro Bellori. In Roma, 
 
 I 1695, in folio. 
 
 This curious book gives a reader a very great 
 opinion of Raphael's learning and invention. 
 
 Delia nobiliflima Pittura, e della fua Arte, 6fr. 
 di Michelangelo Riondi. Jn Venezia, 1549, 
 in octavo. 
 
 Trattato della Pittura, cjfr. di Fra Domenico 
 Francefco Bisacno Cavaliere di Malta. In 
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 Riondi was but a poor dolt as well as Bifagnl. 
 Eccellenza della Statua di S. Giorgio di Donatello 
 
 Scultore Fiorentino, di Francefco Bocchi. In 
 
 Firenze, 1584, in octavo. 
 
 Donateilo's ftatue is indeed admired as a capital 
 
 thing in its kind by the connoiffeurs ; but Boccbfs 
 
 book is very dulL 
 II Ripofo, di Raffaelle Borghini, in cui fi favella 
 
 della Pittura e della Scoltura de* piu illuftri 
 
 Scultori e Pittori antichi e moderni, dell' opere 
 
 loro, e delle cofe appartenenti all' arte. la 
 
 Firenze, per il Marefcotti, 1584, in octavo. 
 
 A fcarce book, and much valued ; but, as to 
 
 ftile, poorly written. 
 Abiti antichi e moderni di tutto il Mondo, di Ce- 
 
 fare Vecellio. In Venezia, prefib i SeflTa, 
 
 1598, in octavo. 
 
 This Vecellio was a relation of the famous painter 
 
 Titian. 
 Catalogo degli Ordini Religiofi della Chiefa Mili- 
 
 tante efprefll con Imagini dal P. Filippo Bo- 
 
 nanni della Compagnia di Gesu, in due parti ; 
 
 h prima degli Uomini, la feconda delle Donne, 
 
 In Roma, 1 706, in quarto. 
 
 Laft year I was forry to fee this book in the 
 
 hands of an Englifh Taylor about the time of 
 
 the mafquerade. 
 Pareri foprala Pittura, di Bernardino Campi Pit- 
 tor Cremonefe. In Cremona, 1584, in quarto. 
 Difcorfo fopra la mirabil Opera di BafTo Rilievo 
 
 di Cera Stuccata con colori, fcolpita in pietra 
 
 negra
 
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 negra da Jacopo Vivio. In Roma, per Fran- 
 cefco Coattino, 1 590, in quarto. 
 Of the two above books I know nothing; 
 Due Trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali Arti 
 dell* Orificeria, 1' altro in materia dell' Arte 
 della Scoltura, dove fi veggono infiniti Segreti 
 nel lavorar le Figure di marmo, e nel getiarle 
 di bronzo, compofti da Benvenuto Cellini 
 Scultore Fiorentino. In Firenze, per Valente 
 Panizzi, 1568, in quarto. 
 A fearce and valuable book on all accounts. I 
 mentioned Cellini in anotherjplace. 
 
 II Figino, ovvero del fine della Pittura, Dialogo 
 del Padre D. Gregorio Comanini. In Man- 
 to va, 1 59 1, in quarto. 
 
 Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti, raccoltaperAf- 
 canio Condivi. In Roma, preffo Antonio 
 Blado, 1553, in octavo. 
 
 Vite de' Pittori antichi, fcritte ed illuftrate da 
 Carlo Dati. In Firenze, nella Stamperia della 
 Stella, 1667, in quarto. 
 Dati writ three volumes on picture ; the firll 
 containing, A Treatife on ancient Painting ; the 
 fecond, The Lives of ancient Painters -, the 
 third, A Catalogue of ancient Artificers. But 
 having feen Francis Junius's books de piclura 
 vetcrum, he printed but the above Vite de* Pit- 
 tori antichi. The other two volumes are pre- 
 ferved in manufcript in the Riccardian library 
 at Florence. 
 
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 Dialogo della Pittura di Lodovico Dolce intito- 
 lato T Aretino. In Venezia, 1587, in octavo. 
 Lodovico Dolce (fays Zeno) could not chufc a 
 properer perfon to entitle it than Aretino, who 
 was very fkilled in the art of drawing. The 
 belt profeflbrs of his time valued much Aretino 
 for it. Giorgio Vafari had fuch an efteem for 
 him, that, in his paintings in the ducal palace 
 at Florence, he painted him near Bembo and 
 Ariojio. Sebajiiano of Venice, known under 
 the name of Fra Baftian del Piombo, Raphael 
 of Urbino, the engraver Leone d*Arezzo, and 
 the architect Serlius were amongft his admirers. 
 But his moft intimate friend amongft this fort 
 of people was the renowned Titian, 
 
 Difegno del Doni partito in piti ragionamenti, ne 9 
 quali fi tratta della Pittura, della Scoltura, de* 
 Colori, de* Getti, de' Modegli, ed altre cofe 
 fpettanti a quefte Arti. In Venezia, prefib il 
 Giolito, 1549, in octavo. 
 This was Antonfrancefco Dcni y mentioned cKc^ 
 where. This book is not bad as to language* 
 but has no name amongft the artificers. 
 
 Difcorfo di AleiTandro La mo intorno alia Scol- 
 fura e Pittura, dove fi ragiona della Vita ed 
 Opere di Bernardino Campi Pittore Cremonefe. 
 In Cremona, 1584, in quarto. 
 
 Di Alberto Durero Pittore e Geometra Chiarif* 
 
 fimo, della Simetria de' corpi umani, libri quat- 
 
 tro, nuovamente tradotti dahlia lingua Latina 
 
 nell' Iraliana da Gio. Paolo Gallucci Salo- 
 
 2 diano,
 
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 diano, &c. In Venezia, preflb Roberto Ma*- 
 netti, 1594, in folio. 
 
 Trattato della Prttura, di Leonardo da Vinci, 
 nuovamente dato in luce, con la Vita del me- 
 defimo da Raffaello du Frefne : fi fono aggiunti 
 i tre llbri della Pictura ed il Trattato della Sta- 
 tua di Leon Battifta Alberti, con la Vita del 
 medefimo. In Parigi, prefib Giacomo Lan- 
 glois, 1 65 1, in folio. 
 
 A book of great price. The painter Vinci was 
 the wonder of his contemporaries for his many 
 excellent qualifications, He was the beft painter, 
 the beft architect, the beft mufician, the beft 
 rider, the beft fencer, the beft dancer, the mod 
 handfome, the molt laborious, the moft dili- 
 gent man of his age. His ftile, as a writer, 
 has not the utmoft elegance, but is exprefiive 
 and forcible. He died in the arms of Francis I. 
 king of France. See his life in Vafari, and in 
 the above book. 
 
 II Funerale di Agoftino Caracci fatto in Bologna 
 dagl' Incaminati Accademici del Disegno, 
 con i rami intagliati da Guido Reni. In Bo- 
 1603, in quarto. 
 
 A book of price, becaufe of the cuts , but the 
 Academicians chofe a very indifferent pen to 
 write it: 
 
 Trattato dell' Arte della Pittura, Scultura, ed Ar- 
 chitettura, di Gio. Paolo Lommazzo Pittore 
 Milanefe. In Milano, per Paolo Pottardo 
 Ponzio, 1585, in quarto. 
 
 Idea
 
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 Idea del Tempio della Pittura, di Gio. Paolo 
 
 Lommazzo. In Milano, per loPonzio, 1590, 
 
 in quarto. 
 Della forma delle Mufe cavate dagli antichi Autori 
 
 Greci e Latini, di Gio Paolo Lommazzo. In 
 
 Milano, 1 59 1 , in quarto. 
 
 Paolo Lommazzo was a famous painter and poet 
 in his time ; but I never faw any of his paint- 
 ings or verfcs. 
 
 Felfina Pittrice : Vite de' Pittori Bolognefi, com- 
 pofte dal Conte Carlo Cefare Malvagia, co i 
 Ritratti de' Pittori. In Bologna, preflb il Bar- 
 bieri, 1678, in quarto. 
 An ill-written book. 
 
 OiTervazioni fopra il Libro della Felfina Pittrice, 
 per difefa di Rafaello da Urbino, de' Caracci, 
 e della loro Scuola, da D. Vincenzo Vit to- 
 ri a. In Roma, per il Zanobi, 1703, inofbavo. 
 The ftile of this book is no better than Mal- 
 vagia's, on which it is a criticifm. 
 
 Lettere familiari fcritte ad un Amico, in difefa 
 del Conte Carlo Cefare Malvagia Autore della 
 Felfina Pittrice, da Gio. Pietro Cavazzoni Za- 
 notti Pittore. In Bologna, per il Pifarri, 
 1705, in octavo. 
 
 Zanotti, a painter and a poet, was dill living 
 when I left Italy. His profe and verfes will 
 lafl long, I hope; but when he writ the above 
 book, he had not yet attained to that degree of 
 elegance that he did afterwards. 
 
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 Difcorfo intorno aile Imagini Sacre e Profane, &V. 
 del Cardinal Gabriello Paleotti. In Bologna, 
 1582, in quarto. 
 
 A book full of erudition, but not elegantly 
 written. 
 
 Dialogo di Pittura, di Paolo Pino. In Venezia, 
 154.8, in o&avo. 
 
 Le Meraviglie dell' Arte, ovvero le Vite degli il- 
 luftri Pictori Veneti e dello Stato, defcritte da 
 Carlo Ridolfi, con i Ritratti in rame. In Ve- 
 nezia, per Gio. Battifta Sgava, 1648, 2 vol. 
 in quarto. Ill -written. 
 
 Vite de' Pittori, Scukori, ed Architetti Genovefi, 
 fcritte da RafTaello Soprani. In Genova, per 
 GiufeppeBottari, 1674, in quarto. 
 
 Vita di Giacopo Robufti, detto il Tintoretto, di 
 Carlo Ridolfi. In Venezia, 1542, in quarto. 
 
 OfTervazioni della Pittura, di Criftofano Sorte. 
 In Venezia, 1580, in quarto. 
 
 Breve Compendio della Vita del FamofoTiziANO 
 Vecellio di Cadore, &c. In Venezia, 1622, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Due Lezioni di Benedetto Va'rchi, nella prima 
 delle quali fi dichiara un Sonetto di Michelan- 
 gelo Buonarrorti ; nella feconda fi difputa qual 
 fia piu nobiif , la Pittura o la Scoltura. In Fi- 
 renze, J549, in quarto. 
 I never read fo pedantick and fo heathenifh a 
 thing, as the firftpf thefe two lectures by Varcbi. 
 
 Ragionamenti del Cavalier Giorgio Vasari, fo- 
 pra le Invcnzioni da lui dipinte in Firenze nel 
 
 Palazzo
 
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 Palazzo di loro Altezze Sereniffime, con Don 
 Francefco Medici allora Principe di Firenze, 
 inficme con la invenzione della Pittura da Lui 
 cominciaca nella Cupola. In F.renze, apprefib 
 Filippo Giunti, 1586, in quarto. 
 Le Vitc de' piu eccellenti Pictori, Scultori, ed Ar- 
 chitettori, di Giorgio Vasari. In Firenze, 
 per i Giunti, 1568 ; and in Bologna, 1647, 3 
 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Fafari's Lives are a book of great reputation, 
 and written with power. He was one of the 
 greateft architects and painters that ever Italy 
 produced. 
 
 Idea dc' Pictori, Scultori, ed Architetti del Ca- 
 valier Federico Zuccaro. In Torino, 1607, 
 in folio. 
 
 Paflaggio per Italia, in cui fono defcritte varia 
 Pitture, del Cavalier Federico Zuccaro. In 
 Bologna, 1608, in quarto. 
 Two very good book*. I have mentioned 
 ZuccaroScw pages above. 
 
 Difpareri in Materia d'Architettura e Profpettiva, 
 &c. di Martino Bacci Milanefe. In Brcfcia, 
 per Francefco Marchetti, 1572, in quarto. 
 
 Nuovo Teatro di Macchine ed Edifici per varie 
 e ficure Opcrazioni, &c (with cuts.) di Vitto- 
 rio Zonca. In Padova, 1627, * n folio. 
 
 Tre Difcorfi fopra il modo di alzar acque da' 
 luoghi bafli, di Giufeppe Ceredi. In Parma, 
 per Ser Viotto, 1567, in quarto. 
 
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 Le diveife artificiofe Macchine del Capitano A- 
 goftinoRAMELLi, compofte in Lingua Italiana 
 e Francefe. In Parigi, 1588, in folio, with cuts, 
 A book of price. 
 
 Pratica di fabbricar Scene e Macchine ne' Teat i, 
 di Nicola Sabeatimj da Pcfaro. In Ravenna, 
 per Pietro de* Paoli e Go. Battifta Giovanelli, 
 1638, in quarto. 
 
 Trattato della Direzione de' Fiumi, di Famian 
 Michelini. In Firenze, nella Stampcria della 
 Stella, 1664, in quarto. 
 
 Delia Natura de" Fiumi, trattato Fifico-matema- 
 tico di Domenico Guglielmini. In Bologna, 
 per Antonio Pifarri, 1697, in quarto. 
 1 remember I have feen an edkion of this book 
 with ample notes by our famous poet and ma- 
 thematician Eujlachio Manfred i. 
 
 Due Dialoghi di Jacopo Lantieri, del mododi 
 difegnar le piante dclie Fortezze fecondo Eu- 
 clide, &V. In Venezia, per lo Valgrifi, 1557, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Delle Fortifkazioni di Galaflb Alghisi da Carpi, 
 Architetto del Duca di Ftrrara. In Venezia* 
 1570, in folio. 
 
 Tre qucfui fopra il fare batterie, fortificare una 
 
 Citta ed ordinare battaglie quadrate ; ed una 
 
 difputa della precedenza dell'Armi e delle Let- 
 
 tere, di Domenico Mora gentiluomo Grifone. 
 
 InVenezia,per Giovanni Varifco, 1 550, in quarto. 
 
 I mentioned Mora in ano. her place. See Collana 
 
 Greca, Gioja quarta. 
 
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 Archkettura milifare, di Francefco Marchi Ca- 
 pirano. In Venezia, per Francefco de Fran- 
 ce fchi, 1577 and 1600, in folio, with cuts. 
 A coilly book. 
 
 Libro nuovo di fortificare, offendere, e difendefe, 
 col modo di far alloggiamenti campali, di Gi- 
 rolamo Cataneo Novarefe. In Brefcia, per 
 Tomafo Bozzola, 1567, in quarto. 
 
 I quattro primi Libri d' Architettura, di Pier 
 Cataneo. In Venezia, per loManuzio, 1554, 
 in folio. 
 
 I quattro Libri d' Architettura di Andrea Pal- 
 la dio. In Venezia, 1581 and 1642, in folio. 
 There is a magnificent Englifh edition of this 
 book, with an Engliih tranflation printed with 
 it ; but i is pity the editor did not get a good 
 corrector of the Italian, which, for that rea- 
 fon, is fcarcely legible. Pa!ladio's ftile does 
 not want cloknefs and power. 
 
 Idea dell' Architettura di Vincenco Scamozzi. 
 In Venezia, per Giorgio Valentino, 1615, 2 
 vol. in quarto. 
 
 Though Scamozzi is not reckoned inferior to 
 Palladia in architecture, I think him inferior 
 in writing Italian. This book is coftly. 
 
 Archite:tura di Baftiano Serlio. In Venezia, 
 1544, in folio i 1566, in quarto j 15S8, in 
 folio. 
 
 Serlio was one of the mod famous profeflbrs of 
 
 arts, and efpecially of architecture, in that 
 
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 324 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 bleffed age that produced fo many learned met! 
 and artificers in Italy. 
 
 Delia trafportazione dell' Obelifco Vaticano e dcl!e 
 
 fabbriche diSifto V. fatte dal Cavalier Dome- 
 
 . nico Fontana. In Roma, per Domenico Bafa, 
 
 I590- 
 
 Domenico Fontana was the famous architect and 
 machinift of Sixtus V. I do not know whe- 
 ther he was the writer of the above fcarce book. 
 
 Arte militare terreftre e maritima, &c. di Mario 
 Savorgnano Conte di Belgrade In Venezia, 
 per Baftiano Combi, 16 14, in folio. 
 I know nothing of this book and its author. 
 
 Corona Imperiale di Architettura militare di Pie_ 
 tro Sardi. In Venezia, a fpefe deli' Autore, 
 161 8, in folio. 
 
 I died Libri dell' Architettura di Vitruvio, tra- 
 dotti e commentati da Monfignor Daniello 
 Barbaro eletto Patriarca d' Acquileja. In Ve- 
 nezia, 1556, in folio. 
 
 This Barbaro was little inferior in learning to 
 his uncle Ermolao Barbaro. He was fent am- 
 baflador by the Venetians to Edward VI. king 
 of England ; and, on his return to Venice, 
 prefented the republick with an account of 
 England and Scotland, ftill preferred in manu- 
 fcript in St. Mark's library. His tranflation 
 of Vitruvius is a capital thing, and his notes 
 are much regarded by our architects. He was 
 ettb the promoter of a Latin edition of that 
 
 book,
 
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 book, with his fame commentary tranflated 
 
 into Latin by himfelf. 
 G!i ofcuri e difficili pafil dell' opera Jonica di Vi- 
 
 truvio, tradotti per Gio. Battifta Bertano 
 
 Mantuano. In Mantova, 1558, in folio. 
 
 A book of reputation, but I know nothing of 
 
 its author. 
 Architettura di Leon Battifta Alberti, tradotta in 
 
 Lingua Fiorentina da Cofimo Bartoli. In 
 
 Firenze, perLorenzoTofrentjno, 1550, in folio. 
 
 I mentioned both Alberti and Bartoli in other 
 
 places. 
 Mododi mifurare le diftanze, le fuperftcie, i Cor- 
 
 pi, le Piante, le Provincie, le Profpettive, &c. 
 
 di Cofimo Bartoli. In Venezia, 1564, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 A book ftill in reputation, though more expe- 
 ditious methods have been found out fince he 
 
 writ it. 
 Antichita di Roma di Antonio Labaccq. In 
 
 Roma, 1552 ; and in Venezia, 1557 and 1558, 
 
 in folio. 
 
 There is a multitude of Italian book? with this 
 
 title. This is very fcarce and not ill written. 
 Pieci Libri d' Architettura di Gio. Antonio Rus- 
 
 coni, fecondo i Precetti di Vitruvio, libri 10. 
 
 In Venezia, 1660, in folio. 
 
 This is a Collana book, 
 L'Architettura fopra i cinque Ordini, di Giacomo 
 
 Barrocci da Vignola. In Venezia, 1570, in 
 
 folio. 
 
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 In Italy, this is generally the firft book that is 
 put into the hands of young people that intend 
 to ftudy architecture. 
 
 Vegezio dell' Arte militare, nella comune lingua 
 nuovamente tradotto da Tizzone di Pofi. In 
 Venezia, per Comin da Trino, 1540, in oc- 
 tavo ; it was alfo tranflated by Francefco Fer- 
 rosi. In Venezia, preflb il Giolito, 155 1, in 
 odtavo. 
 
 I cannot find who Di Pofi and Ferrofi were j 
 but they had both a good ftile. 
 
 Delia Difciplina militare antica e moderna del Ci- 
 nuzzi Sanefe. In Siena, 1620, in quarto. 
 Marcantonio Cinuzzi was a man of great learn, 
 ing, as it appears by fome letters written to him 
 by his friend cardinal Claudio Tolomei, and by 
 the above work of his. 
 
 Dei difegni delle piii illuftri Citta e Fortezze del 
 Mondo, da Giulio Ballino. In Venezia, 
 1569, in folio. 
 
 Ballino was famous in his time for his eloquence 
 in difputing caufes before the fenate of Venice 
 in the dialect of that city. He was a good 
 Greek fcho^r - ' r alian tolerably well. 
 
 Mate-
 
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 Matematici, Geometri, ed Aftronomi. 
 
 Mathematicians, Geometers, and AJlronomers. 
 
 FR. Luce de Burgo S. Sepulcri, Aritmetica e 
 Geometria. In Venezia, per Paganino de' 
 Paganini, 1494, in folio, in black letter. 
 
 Libro intitolato Horologio ; fono un fogno ed tin 
 Difcorfo fopra i fegni del Zodiaco, e Pianeti, 
 qualita, e loro influfli, per Pietro Adam, in 
 quarto. 
 
 This book was printed in the fifteenth century. 
 
 Kalendario, o fia EfFemeride, con F Orologio 
 Orizzontale, Ore Equinociali, Ore Temporal i. 
 In Ventz'a, per Bernardo Pittore d'Augufta, 
 Pietro Loflein, ed Erardo Rotdolt d'Augufta, 
 157(5, in folio. 
 
 This is a tranflation from the Latin of Roda- 
 mmtanus. 
 
 As I faid in another place, I regiftcr thefe old 
 books out of reverence to antiquity. The cu- 
 rious reader that is pofftflbd of them will find 
 delight in comparing the obfolete Italian, in 
 which they are written, with the modern, be- 
 fidesthe pleafure that one has in getting a kind 
 of chronological knowledge of fcience, and its 
 progrefs. 
 
 Delia nuova Geometria di Francefco Patrizi, 
 
 libri 15, ne* quali con mirabil ordine e con di- 
 
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 moftrazioni a maraviglia piu facili e piu forti 
 delle ufate fi vede che le matematiche per via 
 regia e piu piana, che dagli antichi fatto fi e, fi. 
 poflbno trattare. In Ferrara, per Vittorio Bal- 
 dini, 1587, in quarto. 
 
 Pairizi, of OfTero in Dalmatia, was a man of 
 great learning and daring genius. In his youth, 
 he travelled much in Alia-, then fettled in 
 the ifland of Cypru c , where he bought a large 
 eftate, but loft every thing when the Venetians 
 loft that kingdom ; fo that he was obliged to 
 go to Italy, and there live on his wit. He read 
 platonick philofophy in the univerfity of Fer- 
 rara, and at laftdied in Rome, muchefteemed 
 and careffed by all lovers of literature, though 
 he had advanced fome opinions in the mathe T 
 matical fcience and about Italian language, that 
 were thought, and are ftill, abfurd. He was 
 an academician of the Crufca, and one of the 
 great defenders of Ariofto againft thofe that 
 preferred Tajfo to him. 
 
 La Geometria praticadi Giovanni Pqmodoro Ve r 
 neziano, cavata dagli Elementi d* Euclide e d* 
 altri famofi Autori, con 1' Efpofizione di Gio- 
 vanni Scala Matematicp. In Roma, per li 
 Rofli, 1667, in folio. 
 
 This book I never faw^ nor know any thing of 
 the authors, but I am told it is an inftructiv e 
 book. 
 
 Le due Regole della Profpettiva pratica di Jacopo 
 Barozzi (or Barocci) da Vignola, co' Com- 
 
 mentari
 
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 mentari di Fgnaz'O Dantj. In Roma, preflb 
 il Zanetti, 1583, in folio. 
 Father Danti -writ elegantly enough. 
 La Sfera di Procjo Licco, tradotta da Egnazio 
 
 Danti. In Firenze, 15*73, in quarto. 
 La Profpettiva d' Euclide, tradotta da Egnazio 
 Danti, con alcune fue annotazioni, infieme 
 con la Profpettiva di Eliodoro Lariffeo. In 
 Firenze, 1573, in quarto. 
 I tre libri deila Profpettiva comune di Giovanni 
 Arcivefco Gantuarienfe, tradotti ed accrefciuti 
 con figure ed annotazioni da Gio. Paolo Gal- 
 H/cci. In Venezia, per lo Varifco, 1593, in 
 quarto. 
 Prattica della Profpettiva di Monfignor Daniello 
 Barbaro eletto Patriarca d' Aquiieja, Opera 
 molto utile a Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti. 
 In Venezia, per Camillo e Rutilio Rorgomieri, 
 1568, in folio. 
 
 Few Italian books are fo well writ as this by 
 Barbaro, whom I mentioned above. 
 Libro dfl modo di divjdere la Superfine, attri- 
 buito a Macometto Bagdedino, mandato in luce 
 la prima volta da Giovanni Dee da Londra e 
 da Federigo Commandino da Urbino, con un 
 breve Trattato intorno alia ftefia materia del 
 medefimo Federico, tradotti dal Latino da 
 Fulvio Viani. In Pefaro, per Girolamo Con- 
 cordia, 1570, in quarto. 
 Degli Elementi d* Euclide libri 1 1 , con gli Sco- 
 lii antichi, tradotti prima in Lingua Latina da 
 
 Federico
 
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 FederkoCoMMANDiNO da Urbino, econ Com- 
 mentari ill jftraci, ed ora d' ordine dello ftefio 
 trafportati nella noftra volgare, e da Lui rive- 
 duti. In Urbi.io, per Domenico Frifolino, 
 1575, in folio. 
 
 Commandino was looked upon in Italy as the 
 greateft geomettr of his age. 
 
 General Trattato di Numeri e Mifure, di Nicoio 
 Tartaglia. In Venezia, per Curzio Tro- 
 jano da Navo, 1556, in quarto. 
 Zeno calls Tartaglia, Un Dotto Brefciano. 
 
 Teoriche ovvero Speculaziont de' Pianeti, di A- 
 lefTandro Piccolomini. , In Venezia, per Gio- 
 vanni Varifco, 1563, in quarto. 
 
 Delle ftelle fifo, libra uno (by the fame Picco- 
 lomini.) In Venezia, per lo Varifco, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Delia Sfera del Mondo, libri fei (by the fame.) In 
 Venezia, per lo Varifco, 1595, in quarto. 
 I have faid elfewhere, that Piccolomini was a 
 man of great learning and a very elegant writer. 
 
 Parafrafe di AlefTandro Piccolom*ni fopra le 
 Meccaniche d' Ariftotile, tradotca da Orefte 
 Vannocci. In Roma, per Francefco Zan- 
 netti, 1582, in quarto. 
 
 Piccolomiri writ this work in La. in, printed in 
 Rome, 1547, in quarto. Vannocci tranflated 
 it with great elegance, being but feventeen years 
 of age. Three years after he was called by the 
 duke of Mantua to be his architect with a great 
 ftipend, confidering the time and the country ; 
 
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 but the ingenious youth died in the twenty- 
 fourth year of his age. 
 
 Di Erone Aleflandrino degli Automati, ovvero 
 Macchine fe movent'^ libri due, tradotti dal 
 Greco da Bernardino Baldi Abate di Guaftalla, 
 con le annotazioni. In Venezia, per Giavanpi 
 Bartifta Bertoni, 160 i, in quarto. 
 
 Gli artificiofi e curiofi moti Spirirali di Erone A- 
 Jeffandrino, tradotti da Gio. Battifta Aleotti 
 d'Argenta, aggiuntovi dal medefimo quatro 
 Teoremi non men belli e curiofi degii altri, e 
 il modo con cui fi fa artificiofamente falire un 
 Canale d' acqua viva o morta in cima d' ogni 
 alta Torre. In Ferrara, per il Baldini, 1589 
 in quarto. 
 
 Spiritali di Erone Aleflandrino, tradotti da Alef- 
 fandro Giorgi da Urbino. In Urbino, preflb 
 i Ragufi, 1592, in quarto. 
 
 Delia Fabbricadel nuovo Orologio Univerfale, ed 
 ufo di nuovo Stromento per fare gli Orologi 
 Solari, di Gio. Paolo Gallucci. In Venezia, 
 1590, in quarto. 
 
 Opere di Galileo Galilei. In Bologna, preflb 
 il Dozza, 1656, 2 vol. in quarto. 
 I have mf ntioned them under the article of 
 Natural Pbdofopby. 
 
 Trattato della Detcrizione della Sfera Cclefte in 
 piano, di Claudio Toloneo Aleflandrino, tra- 
 dotto in Italiano, e pa j afraiticamenve li.i.itrato, 
 amplificato, e dimoftrato da Ercole Bottri- 
 
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 332 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 gari. In Bologna, per lo Benacci, 1572, in 
 quarto. 
 La Sfera di Giovanni Sacrobofco, tradotta, emen-. 
 data, ed illuftrata da Pier Vincenzo Rinaldi. 
 In Firenze, 1579, in quarto. 
 Annotazioni fopra la Sfera del Sacrobofco, dove ft 
 dichiarano tutti i principj matematici e naturali, 
 &c. In Firenze, (Torrentino) 1550, in octavo. 
 Difcorfo di Giafon de Nores intorno alia Geo- 
 grafia. In Padova 4 per Paolo Mejetti, 1589, " 
 in quarto. 
 Jnvenzione del Corfo della Longitudine di Paolo 
 Interiano, col riftretto della Sfera del mede- 
 fimo. In Lucca, pel Bufdrago, 1 55 1 , in quarto 
 Pialogo di Jacopo Gabrielli, nel quale delia 
 Sfera, dtgli Orti, e degli Occaft delle Stelle 
 minutamente ft ragona. In Venezia, per Gio- 
 vanni dt* Farri, 1545* in quarto. 
 Difcorfo fopra gli anni Climaterici di Giufcppe de* 
 Rossi. In Roma, per Jacopo Bericchia, 1585, 
 in quarto. 
 Trattato della Sfera con Ie pratiche per quelli che 
 defiderano efercitarfi in efla, e col modo di far 
 la figura celefte fecondo la via razionale, di Ur- 
 bano Davisi. In Roma, per lo Mafcardi, 
 1682, in duodecimo. 
 Euclide libri 15, da Nicolo Tartaclja. In 
 
 Venezia, 1565, in quarto. 
 Quinto Libro degli Elementi d' Euclide, ovvero 
 Scienza univerfale delle proporzioni, fpiegata 
 
 con
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 333 
 
 con la Dottrina del Galileo, &c. di Vincenzo 
 Viviani. In Firenze, alia condotca, 1674, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Formazione e Mifura di tutti i Cieli (by the fame 
 Viviani.) In Firenze, per Pier Matini, 1692, 
 in quarto. 
 
 Viviani was one of the greateft mathematicians 
 of his time, and an intimate friend of the re- 
 nowned Evangelifia 'Torricelli. 
 
 Lo Specchio Uftorio di Bonaventura Cavalieri, 
 ovvero Trattato delle Sezioni Coniche, &c. In 
 Bologna, per Gio. Battifta Ferroni, 1560, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Cavalieri had the honour of being called, alter 
 Archimedes ; by no lefs a man than Galilei. 
 
 Fabbrica degli Orologi Solari per Valentino Pini. 
 In Venezia, per Marco Guarifco, 1598 and 
 1626, in folio. 
 
 Dialogo di D. Giambattifta Vimercato degli 
 Orologi So'ari. In Venezia, per il Giolito, 
 1567, in quarto, with cuts. 
 Vimercato was of Milan, and aCarthufian monk. 
 
 Degli Orologi Solari nelle Superficie piane, trat- 
 tato di Muzio Oddi da Urbino. In Milano, 
 per Jacopo Latini, 16 14, in quarto. 
 It is remarkable, that Oddi writ this book with 
 coals while he was in prifon, and forbidden pen 
 and ink. 
 
 Dello Squadro, trattato (by the fame Oddi.) In 
 Milano, per Bartolomeo Fobella, 1625, in 
 quarto. - 
 
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 334 The fTALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Delia fabbrica e dell* ufo del Compaffo Polime- 
 tro (by the fame Oddi.) In Milano, per lo 
 Fobelli, 1633, in quarto. 
 
 I think it proper to leave out of this catalogue 
 many antient mathematical books written in 
 Italian, becaufe philofophers of late have brought 
 this fcience to fuch a degree of perfection, that 
 the old ones are now of little ufe, though thsy 
 may juftly claim the greateft part of the praifes 
 btftowed upon thofe that came after them* 
 
 Mufica.
 
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 Mufica. MuficL 
 
 FRANCESCO Caza, Tralato volgare 
 del Canto figurato, Opera Magiftri Jo. Pe- 
 tri Lomacio. In Milano, Leonardus Pachel 
 impreflit, 1492, in quarto. 
 I have already obferved, that it was the cuftom 
 of old Italian writers to have the titles of their 
 books either in Latin, or Italian mixed with 
 Latin. The above book by Lomacio is little 
 valued by our modern practical muficians, but 
 the fpeculative ones will give any money for ir, 
 as well as for the two next, which are fcarcely 
 to be found. 
 Angelicum ac divinum Opus Muficse Franchini 
 Gafurii Laudenfis (that is of Lodi, a fmall 
 town, twenty miles diftant from Milan) Regii 
 Mufici, Ecclefiseque Mediolanenfis Phonafci, 
 materna lingua fcriptum. Tractatus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 
 & ultimus. ImpreiTum Mediolani, per Got- 
 tardum de Ponte, Anno Salutis millefimo quin- 
 gentefimo octavo die fextadecima Decembris : 
 Julio Secundo Pontifice Maximo, ac Chriftia- 
 n'nTimo Francorum Rege Lodovico, Duce Me- 
 diolani, Foelici aufpicio regnantibus. In folio. 
 Though the whole title of this book is in La- 
 tin, the book is all in obfoletc and inelegant 
 Italian. Yet Gaforio is looked upon amongft 
 us as the father of Italian mufick. 
 
 Traftato 
 
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 33<5 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Traclato di Mufica di Giovanni SpataroMlj(ic(> 
 Bolognefe, nel quale fi tracta de la Perfectione 
 de la fefquialtera producta in la Mufica menfir 
 rata, &V. Imprefib in Vcnezia, per Maeftro 
 Bernardino de' Vitali el di oftavo del Mefe di 
 Octobre, 1531, in folio. 
 
 II Tofcanello in Mufica di Mcfifer Pietro A row 
 Fiorentino dell' Ordine Jerofolimitano, e Ca- 
 nonico di Rimini, nuovamente ftampato con la 
 gionta da Lui fatta. In Venezia, 1539, m 
 folio, the fecond edition. 
 
 1 know nothing of the above two authors. 
 Tutte le Opere di Giufeppe ZAKLiNoda Chioggia 
 
 (delle Iftituzioni e Dimoftrazioni Armoniche.) 
 In Venezia, per Francefco Franchefchi, 1589, 
 
 2 vol. in folio, the beft edi ion. 
 
 ZarlinOy a friar, was a man of learning, as well 
 zs a mufician of reputation ; though, as I am 
 told, many of his opinions were not adopted 
 by fucceflive muficians. This book is not in- 
 elegant in (tile, though a little ungrammatical. 
 
 Imptefa del R. P. GiofeffoZARUNO da Chioggia, 
 gia maeftro dicapel la deli' illuftriffima Signoria 
 di Venezia ; dichiarato dal R. D. Gio. Maria 
 Artusi di Bologna, Canonico Regolare nella 
 Congregazione di S. Salvatore. In Bologna, 
 preflb Giambattifta Bcliagamba, 1 604, in quatto. 
 
 L' Arte del contrapunto ridotto in Tavole, di 
 Gio. Maria Artusi da Bologna, dove breve - 
 mente fi contiene i precetti a queft' Arte necef- 
 fari, parte prima. In Venezia, preflb Giacomo 
 
 Vincenti 
 
 8
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY* 337 
 
 Vincenti e Ricciardo Amadino compagni, 1 598, 
 in folio. Nella feconda parte fi tratta dell* 
 utile ed ufo delle diflbnanze. In Venezia, (by 
 the fame Vincenti) 1589, in folio. 
 Muficians fay, that this is one of the bed books 
 of the kind. 
 
 L' Antica Mufica ridotta alia moderna prattica, 
 con le dichiarazioni e con gli efempli de' tre 
 generi, con le loro fpezie, e con 1' invenzione 
 d' un nuovo ftromento nel quale fi contiene tutta 
 la perfetta Mufica : compofto dal Rev. M. D. 
 Nicolo Vicentino. In Roma, per Antonio 
 Barri, 1557, in folio. 
 
 A book famous for the mufical abfurdities con- 
 tained in it. That Vicentino\ precept and no- 
 tions were abfurd, we have, amongft others, 
 ' the authority of John Baptift Doni, of whom I 
 (hall fpeak in its place. 
 
 Scipione Cerreto Napolitano, della prattica Mu- 
 fica vocale e ftrumentale ; Opera necelTaria a 
 coloro che di Mufica fi dilettano, con le poftille 
 pofte dall' Autore a maggior dichiarazione d* 
 alcune cofe occorrenti ne' difcorfi. In Napoli, 
 preffo Gio Jacomo Carlino, 1601, in quarto. 
 
 The language and che ftile of this book are 
 very indifferent. 
 
 Difcorfi Muficali nelli quali fi contengono non folo 
 Je cofe pertinenti aJla Teorica ma eziandio alia 
 Pratica, mediante le quali fi potja con facilta 
 pervenire all* acquifto di cosi onorata Scienza ; 
 raccolti da diverfi buoni Autori da Cefare Cri- 
 
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 338 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 VELi/ATi Medico Viterbefe. In Venezia, prefib 
 Agoftino Difcepoli, 1624, in folio. 
 Ragionamento di Mufica delR. D. Pietro Ponzto 
 Parmegiano , ove (i trarta de' Paflaggi, delle 
 confonanzie e diflbnanzie buone e non buone ; 
 e del modo di far Mottetti, MefTe, Salmi, td 
 akre compofizioni ; ed alcuni avvertimenti per 
 il contrapuntifta e compofitore ; ed akre cofe 
 pertinenti alia Mufica. In Parma, preflb E- 
 rafmo Viotto, 1588, in quarto. 
 A book of reputation. 
 
 II Melone, difcorfo Arrrionico del Cavalier Ercole 
 Bottrigari j ed il Melone fecOndo, Confide- 
 razioni Muficali del medefimo fopra un Difcorfo 
 di Gandolfo Sigonio intorno a Madrigai, ri- 
 dotta alia moderna pratica di D. N'icolo Vicen- 
 tino, in occafione di rifpondere ad una Lettera 
 di Annibale Meloni D.cano de' Mufici ordinarj 
 della Signoria di Bologna *, e nel fine eflb Dif- 
 corfo del Sigonio. Ferrara, preflb Vrttorio 
 Baldini, 1602, in quarto. 
 The {lile of Bottrigari, as well as the di'courfe 
 by Gandolfo Sigortio, is inelegant ; yet I am 
 fold, they treat their fubject fkilfully. 
 
 II Patrizio, ovvero de' Tetracordi Arrnonici di 
 Ariftoflene, parere e vera dimoftrazione del 
 Cavalier Ercole Bottrigari. In Bologna, 
 per Bellagamba, 1590, in quarto. 
 
 II Defiderio: ovvero de' fcbncerti di varj ftrurrienti 
 
 Muficali ; Dialogo di Mufica di Ercole Bot- 
 
 " Trjgari. In Bologna, per Bellagamba, 1590, 
 
 in quarto. 2 BvUri~
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 339 
 
 Bottrigari was a poet, a painter, an architect, 
 and a mufician ; that is, underftood fomething 
 of every thing, but excelled in nothing, Be- 
 fides the above works, we have a collection of 
 poerns made by him, and printed in Bologna, 
 prefib Anfelmo Giaccarello, 1551, in octavo. 
 Regole del contrapunto e compofizfone, breve- 
 mente raccolte da diverfi Autori, per il R. P. F. 
 Valerio Bona da BrelTa ; operetta molto facile 
 ed utile per g!i Scolari principianti. In Cafale, 
 preflo Bernardo Grafib, 1595, in quarto. 
 
 This book is remarkable for the goodnefs of 
 its.mufical precepts, and more for the badnefs 
 of its (tile and language. 
 
 II Fronimo, Dialogo di Vincenzo Galilei fopra 
 T Arte del ben intavolare, e rettamente fuonare 
 la Mnfica. In Venezia, per 1' erede di Giro- 
 lamo Scotto, 15^3, in folio. 
 
 Dialogo della Mufica antica e moderna, di Vin- 
 cenzo Galilei in fua difefa, contra Giufeppe 
 Zeriino. In Firenze, per FilippoGiunti, 1602, 
 in folio. There is another edition made in 1541.- 
 Of thefe two works I have only looked into the 
 fecond, and I found that the ftile of it is per- 
 fpicuous and ftrong, but ungrammatical and 
 neglected. As a mufician, Vincenzo Galilei 
 keeps as high a rank as any other in Italy, but 
 what has made his memory more confpicuous 
 is, that he was the father of Galileo Galilei^ the 
 mathematician. I will not omit a litle parti- 
 cularity told by Vicenzo in the above book, 
 Z 2 which
 
 34 o The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 which is, that the beft lyres of his time were 
 
 thofe made in England. 
 Difcorfo di FrancefcoBoccm fopra la Mufica. In 
 
 Firenze, 1580, in octavo. 
 II teforo illuminato, di tutti i tuoni di Canto figu- 
 
 rato, con alcuni fieltiftimi fcgreti non da altri 
 
 piu fcritti, nuovamente compofto dal R. P. 
 
 Frate illuminato Ayguino Brefciano. In Ve- 
 
 nezia, preflb Gio. Varifco, 1 581, in quarto. 
 
 The title of this book is fo emphatical and 
 
 filly, that it gives me no great opinion of what 
 
 u contains. 
 
 Due Dialoglu della Mufica, di Luigi Dentice 
 Gentiluomo Napolitano. In Napo:i, per Mat- 
 teo Cancer, 1552, in quarto. 
 Prattica di Mufica, divifa in quattro libri, com- 
 
 pofta dal R. P. Lodovico Zacconi. In Ve 
 
 nezia, 1596, in folio. 
 
 A book of reputation. 
 II Compendio della Mufica, nel quale brevemente 
 
 fi tratta dell' arte del contrapunto ; divifo in 
 
 quattro libri, del R. M. Orazio Tigrini Ca- 
 
 nonico Aretino. In Vcnezia, preflb Ricciardo 
 
 Amadino, 1602, in quarto. 
 Del fuono e de' tremori Armonici deli' udito y 
 
 trattati di Daniello Bartoli della Compagnia 
 
 di Gesu. In Roma, per loTinaffi, 1679, in 
 
 quarto. 
 
 A philosophical and well-written book. 
 J! Tranlilvano del Reverendo Padre Girolamo 
 
 Diruta fopra il vero modo di fuonare Organi e 
 1 ftromcnri
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 341 
 
 ftromcnti da penna, pane prima. In Venezia, 
 preflb AltiTindro Vincenti, 1622, in folio. 
 Parte feconda, Dell' Intavolatura ed altre cofe. 
 This alfo is a book of reputation in its kind. 
 
 Mufica vaga ed artificiofa di Romano Michieli 
 di Roma. In Venezia, preflo Giacomo Vin- 
 centi, 1 61 5, in folio. 
 
 The author, in his preface, mentions the mod 
 famous mufick matters that lived in Italy in his 
 time. 
 
 Compendio del Trattato de' Generi e de* modi 
 della Mufica, di Gio. Battifta Doni ; con un 
 difcorfo fopra la perfezione de' concenti. In 
 Roma, per Andrea Fei, 1635, in quarto. 
 Pietro della Valle, the famous traveller, writ of 
 this Doni, that he had congiunta a gran bonta e 
 integrita di cojiumi profondijfima erudizione, con 
 efatta notizia della Lingua Greca, delle Matte- 
 matiche, della Teoria Muficale, della Poefia, delV 
 Ifioria, e di ogni altra facolta che a cib poJJ* gio- 
 vare ; con I' ajuto e comodita che ha avuto di ve- 
 dere molti bei Libri reconditi e non pubblicati alls 
 Jiampe, maffimamenie Autori antichi Greet nella 
 Vaticana e in molC altre Librerie famofe ; that is, 
 Doni joined to great goodnefs and integrity the 
 deepeji erudition ; was an eminent Greek fcholar 
 and a good mathematician , knew the theory of 
 mufick, was well verfed in poetry, and hiftory, and 
 in many other ufeful things \ befides, he had the 
 convenience of feeing many fcarce books and ancient 
 Greek manufcripts preferved in the Vatican li- 
 brary, and other places. Offer-
 
 342 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 Oflervazioni di ben regolare il Coro della Capella 
 Pontificia, fatte da Andrea Adami daBoliena. 
 In Roma, per Antonio de' Rofli, 1714, in 
 quarto. 
 
 This book inelegantly written, befides fome 
 good mufical precepts, contains the uninterefiS 
 ing lives of twelve of the principal Italian mu- 
 fick- mafters, together with their portraits, 
 
 I could have regiftred many more Italian books 
 on mufick ; but, as I know no other that de- 
 ferves to be mentioned, either for the goodnefs 
 of its precepts, or for its elegance, I (hall con^ 
 elude this article, and take leave of my reader 
 with the next. 
 
 Difcorfi di Mufica di Vincenzio Chiavelloni. 
 In Roma, per Ignazio de' Lazzeri, 1668, in 
 quarto. 
 
 Thefeare twenty-four difcourfes recited by the 
 author in a mufical academy : but the end of 
 them is not fo much the inftruction of Italian 
 rhuficians, as the reformation of their morals ; 
 and to fay truth, (fays Zeno) their morals want 
 as much correction as their mufick, which ha f , 
 for thefe fifty years paft, much degenerated 
 from its ancient folemnity. Chiavelloni , amongft 
 other good things, tells chefe pretended * Vir- 
 tuofi to abftain from exprefling effeminate paf- 
 
 * This word originally fignified a frofejfor or foll<mctr f 
 1-irtue. At prefent it is (ynonimous with mufician. J do not 
 know how it came to fignifv in England a collelor of (hells 
 and butterflies. 
 
 flOltt
 
 The ITALIAN LIBRARY. 343 
 
 fions and Tinging obfcene fongs, to which they 
 are in general too much addicted. He could 
 have expatiated on their conceitednefs, impu- 
 dence, flandering each other, and other fuch 
 vices 5 but all would have been in vain. What 
 fignifies to write for wretches that cannot read, 
 as it is generally the cafe with thefe fons of 
 harmony ? entirely fpoilt as they are, on the 
 other hand, by the careffes of the richeft and 
 moil ignorant amongft our nobility, the greatefl 
 part of whom feem to think life a burthen, if 
 they live it not in the company of a fidler, a 
 eunuch, and a fwging (trumpet. 
 
 Z 4
 
 INDEX. 
 
 A 
 
 Page 
 
 BARBANEL Leone 256 
 
 Abel a Francefco 158 
 
 D'Ablancourt IO 
 
 Accademici della Crufca 304 
 
 Accademici del Difegno 318 
 
 Accolti Benedetto 1 1 r 
 
 Accolti Bernardo 73, uj 
 
 Acquilano Serafino 73 
 
 D'Acquileja Tomafo 146 
 
 Adami Andrea 342 
 
 Adimari Aleflandro 127 
 
 Adriani Giambattifta 163, 243, 311 
 
 D'Afflitto Scipione 21 
 
 Agoftini Antonio 23 r 
 Alamanni Luigi 61, 76, 85, 89, 93, 108 
 
 Albertano 2t 
 
 Alberti Leon Battifta 311*318,331 
 
 Alberti Leandro 1 46 
 
 Alberti Romano 31 f 
 
 Alberto Maeftro 38 
 
 Aleflandrino Girolamo 71 
 
 Alghifi Galaflb 312 
 
 Allegri Aleflandro 87 
 
 Allori Aleflandro 312 
 
 Altani Arrigo 117 
 
 Alunno Francefco 7 1 
 
 Ammirato Scipione 171, 228 
 
 Amadei Geronimo 27 
 
 Amalteo Cornelio 14 
 
 D'Ambra
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 D'Ambra Francefco 108 
 
 Ambrogio Eremita 22 
 
 Amenta Nicolo 1 1 8 
 
 Andre3 da Bergamo 85 
 
 DegH Angeli Nicola 94 
 
 Angeli Pietro 2 1 8, 219 
 
 .AngeKta Gio. Francefco 150 
 
 Angefoni Francefco^ 223 
 
 Angehucci Teodoro 131 
 
 Angmlla Francefco 128 
 
 Anguillara Andrea 98 
 
 Anguillara Gianandrea 132, 135 
 
 Antoniano Silvio 30 
 
 Antonino Filippo 150 
 
 IV'Aragona Tullia 61, 83, 256 
 
 Arbiani Paolo 1 40 
 
 Amino Liornardo 144, 157, 190, 213 
 
 Aretino 1' Unico 73 
 
 Afttino Pietro 2, 63, 86, 93, 104, 125, 154 
 
 JV A rezjzo G uittone 7 1 
 
 A^rgenti Bono 1 1 3 
 4ipfto Lodovico 52, 60, 62, 6j> 75, 85, 98* *co, 
 
 104, 107, 147, 307, 313 
 
 Begli Arienti Giovanni Sabadino 249 
 
 Arlotto 253 
 
 Afmenini Giambattifta 313 
 
 Belle Armi Giovanni 243 
 
 &renJpietro 336 
 
 Artufi Giammaria 336 
 
 Aimari Federigo is, 107 
 
 Aflarini Luca 1 47 
 
 Atanagi Dionigi 16, 28 
 
 Atanagi Dionigi 8 1 a 
 
 Atanagi Dionigi 219 
 
 .Attendolo Dario 46 
 
 Avkrenna Orazio 1 50 
 
 Ayguino Frate 340 
 
 Azpliqueta Martino 18 
 
 B 
 
 Bacci Andrea 55, 150 
 
 JBacci Martino ' 321 
 
 Bac-
 
 INDEX. 
 
 i 
 
 Page 
 
 Baccelli Girolamo 126 
 
 Bsdeffa Paolo 125 
 
 Baglioni Gianpaolo 313 
 
 Bajacca Giambattifta 192 
 
 Balcianelli Giovanni 129 
 Baldelli Francefco 143, 153, 190, 198, 222, 332 
 
 Baldi Lazaro 513 
 
 Baldi Bernardino 331 
 
 Baldini Baccio 1 88 
 
 Baldinucci Filippo 3131, 314 
 Ballini Giulio 22, 36* 200 
 
 Ballino Giulio 326 
 
 Bandello Giovanni 249, 25a 
 
 Delia Barba Pompeo 33 
 
 Delia Barba Simone 34. 
 
 Barbaro Daniello 324, 329 
 
 Barbaro Ermolao 224 
 
 Barbaro Francefco 34 
 
 Barbaro Giofafat 235 
 
 Barbaro Marco 233 
 
 Barbo Giambattifta 13S 
 
 Barbuo Scipione 183 
 
 Barca Pietro Antonio 313 
 
 Bardi Girolamo 15 
 
 Bargagli Girolamo Hi 
 
 Bargagli Scipione 251 
 
 Bargeo Pietro 130 
 Barozzi da Vignola 108, 325, 328 
 
 Barruffaldi Girolamo 148 
 
 Bartoli Cofimo 181, 325 
 
 Bartoli Daniello 54, 340 
 
 Bartoli Giorgio 181 
 
 Baruffaldi Girolamo 88 
 
 Battiferri Laura 84 
 
 Beccan Agoftino 121 
 
 Bedemar Marchefe di 45 
 
 Bellori Giampietro 232 
 
 Belprato Vicenzo 2<3> 225 
 
 Bembo Dardi 36 
 Bembp Pietro 72, 75, 164. 
 
 Bencdctti Domenico 213 
 
 Benevien,i
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Benivicni Antonio 
 
 189 
 
 Bentivoglio Cornelio 
 
 138 
 
 Bentivoglio Ercole 
 
 106 
 
 Bentivoglio Guido 
 
 85, 160 
 
 Beregani Nicola 
 
 1 39 
 
 Bergalli Lovifa 
 
 83, 84, 142 
 
 Da Bergamo Andrea 
 
 85 
 
 Da Bergamo Fra Filfppo 
 
 144 
 
 Berni Francefco 
 
 58, 86, I4 8, 308 
 
 Bertano Giambattifta 
 
 325 
 
 Betuffi Giufeppe 29 
 
 , 132, 18 r, 230, 256 
 
 Beverini Bartolomeo 
 
 '3 1 
 
 Bevilacqua Giandomenico 
 
 139 
 
 Bianchi Criftoforo 
 
 172 
 
 Bianchini Francefco 
 
 144 
 
 Da Bibbiena Bernardo 
 
 105 
 
 Bindoni Bernardo 
 
 144 
 
 Bino 
 
 86 
 
 Biondi Gianfrancefco 
 
 160 
 
 Biondo da Fori! 
 
 229 
 
 Birago Francefco 
 
 46 
 
 Bifaccioni Majolino 
 
 162, 144 
 
 Bifagno Domenico 
 
 314 
 
 Bizari Fietro 
 
 159 
 
 Boccaccio Giovanni 59, 60, 
 
 141, 18 r, 190, 212, 
 
 23> 239, 248, 252, 
 
 253 
 
 Boccalini Trajano 
 
 176, in, 229 
 
 Bocchi Francefco 
 
 3*5> 340 
 
 Bojardo Matteo Maria 
 
 58, 67, 72, 195 
 
 Bona Valerio 
 
 339 
 
 Bonacciuoli Alfonfo 
 
 202 
 
 De' Bonaccorfi Onofrio 
 
 179 
 
 Bonaccorfo da Montemagno 
 
 72 
 
 Bonani Filippo 
 
 55> 3*5 
 
 Bonarelli Guido 
 
 120 
 
 Bonarelli Profpero 
 
 97 
 
 Bonaventura 
 
 6 
 
 Bonifacio Giovanni 
 
 x 75 
 
 Bonfadio Giacomo 
 
 247 
 
 Bonoli Paulo 
 
 150 
 
 Bonfignore Giovanni 
 
 *34 
 
 
 Bolognetti
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Bolognetti Francefco 66 
 
 Bordone Giulio 20 1 
 
 Borghefi Bernardino 132 
 
 Borghini Raffaello 115, 315 
 
 Borghini Vincenzio 43 
 
 Borgia Francefco 1 9 
 
 Borromeo Carlo 5, 13, 14 
 
 Borromeo Federigo 8 
 
 Borromeo Clelia Grillo 9 
 
 Du Bofc 10 
 
 Boffio Giacomo 158 
 
 Bottrigari Ercole 331, 338 
 
 Bozza Francefco 96 
 
 Braccio AlefTandro 20 1 
 Bracciolini Francefco 65, 69, 97, 121 
 
 Brancatio 227 
 
 Bratutti Vincenzo 161 
 
 Briani Girolamo 147 
 
 Bricchi Francefco 150 
 
 Bruccioli Antonio I, 225 
 
 Bruni Antonio 80 
 
 Bruno Giordano 117 
 
 Brugiantino Vicenzo 65 
 
 Brunellefchi Ghigo 141 
 
 Brufoni Girolamo 167 
 
 Bulgarini Ottavio 193 
 
 Bulgarini Belifario 1 11 
 
 Buonaccorfi Biagio 171 
 
 Buonanni Scipione 243 
 
 Buonaparte Nicolo 1 08 
 
 Buonavtntura Federigo 41 
 
 Buondi Vincenzo 19 
 
 Buonfanti Pietro 1 6, 17 
 
 Buonfiglio Giufeppe Coftanzo 156 
 
 Buonmattei 306 
 
 Buonaroti Michelagnolo 76, 244 
 
 Buonarroti il Giovane 122 
 
 Buoninfegni DomeniGO 172 
 
 Buonriccio Angelico 1 8, 27 
 
 Burchiello 86 
 
 De Burgo Luce 327 
 
 Cabu-
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 C 
 
 Page 
 
 Caburacci Francefco 
 
 78 
 
 Calmo Andrea 
 
 79 
 
 Caloprefe Gregorio 
 
 60 
 
 Calzolajo Michel Capri 
 
 243 
 
 Camilli Camillo 
 
 62 
 
 Camilli Camillo 
 
 136 
 
 Campiglia Maddalena 
 
 121 
 
 Campana Cefare 
 
 18* 
 
 Campano Gianantonio 
 
 i g 5 
 
 Campani Nicolo 
 
 123 
 
 Campo Antonio 
 
 167 
 
 Campeggi Ridolfo 
 
 95,121 
 
 Campelli Bernardino 
 
 152 
 
 Campi Bernardino 
 
 3*5 
 
 Campailla 
 
 66 
 
 Cambi Pierfrancefco 
 
 2 43 
 
 Cambini Andrea 
 
 101 
 
 Campharo Jacobo 
 
 26 
 
 Cambiatore Tommafo 
 
 130 
 
 Candido Pietro a-i I , 
 
 J 55 215 
 
 Canigiani Bernardo 
 
 j 09 
 
 Canini Girolamo 
 
 4 2 
 
 Cantelori Felice 
 
 152 
 
 Capriata Piergiovanni 
 
 166 
 
 Capri Michele 
 
 243 
 
 Capella Galeazzo 
 
 .254 
 
 Cappelloni Lorenzo 
 
 187 
 
 Caporali Cefare 
 
 116 
 
 Cappone Francefco Antonio 
 
 i?S 
 
 Da Capua Lionardo 
 
 54>i88 
 
 Caraccio Antonio 
 
 97, 66 
 
 Carmeli Michelangelo 
 
 129 
 
 Carani Lelio 206, 207, 
 
 2i, 220 
 
 Carcani Lelio 
 
 208 
 
 Cardaneto Orazio 
 
 38 
 
 Caro Annibale 22, 76, 78, 106, 1 15, 
 
 131, 209 
 
 Cartari Vincenzo 136, 
 
 224, 230 
 
 Carli Bartolomeo 
 
 132 
 
 Carrario Pietro 
 
 208
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Delia Cafa Giovanni 86, 75 
 
 Cafotti Giafcribattifta ^71 
 
 Caftellani Tomafo jn 
 
 Cafteltetti Criftoforo u& 
 
 Caftelvetro Lodovico 39, 30, 72, 307 
 
 Caftiglionc BaldafTare 32, 40 
 
 Caftdlini Jacopo ^o^ 
 
 Catatteo Girolamo 
 Gateriria tie Siena 
 
 Cavriolo Elia 
 Caza Francefco 
 
 Cecchi Giovanmaria 
 
 Centone Girolamo 
 
 Genzio AlefTandro 
 Cenzio Carlo 
 Gernotti Lionardo 
 
 323 
 7 
 
 Cattani Francefco ^3, 25 c 
 
 Cavalcanti Bartolomeo 206 
 
 Cavalcanti Giovanni 
 
 Cavalcanti Guido 
 
 Cavalieri Bonaventura 
 
 Cavallerino Antonio 
 
 Cavriana Filippo 22S 
 
 7* 
 333 
 
 33S 
 
 Ceba Anfaldo 36, 42, 24.x 
 
 Ceccheregli Alejandro ifg* 
 
 109 
 
 Ceffi Filippo 143 
 
 Cellini Benvenuto 316 
 
 7* 
 
 Centorio Afcanio -204, 205 
 
 Centorio Afcanio 4.3 
 
 Centorio Afcanio 165, 166 
 
 "3 
 
 203 
 
 Ceredi Giufeppe g 2 i 
 
 Cerretani Aldobrando jm, 1 32 
 
 Gerreto Scipione 307 
 
 Gefari Cefare 94 
 
 Chamillart Etienne 23 j 
 
 Chiavelloni Vinceneio 342 
 
 Chiabrera Gabriello 7.9, 100 
 
 Chierico Jacopo I^q 
 
 )dla Chiefa AgofKno jry 
 
 l>ella Chiefa Lodovica i^j 
 
 Chini Lionardo . .200 
 
 ; * " Ciatt?
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Ciatti Felice 5 l 
 Ciccarelli Antonio 192* 1 79> 228 
 
 Cieco Francefco 5^ 
 Cieco d' Adria 95, 107, 121, 129 
 
 Cimarelli Vincenzo Maria 149 
 
 Cimino Serafino 73 
 
 Cini Giambattifta 108,187 
 
 CinodaPiftoja 7 1 * 7 2 
 
 Cinuzzi Marcantonio 139,326 
 Cintio Giraldi 4 2 4 6 > 95 
 
 Cittadini Celfo 74> 241 
 
 Cirni Antonfrancefco 1 65, 1 66 
 
 Clarigio Girolamo 252 
 
 Clementint Cefare 1 49 
 
 CoIIenuccio Pandolfo 14 
 
 Colomba G afparo 3 x 3 
 
 Colonna Victoria 74> 83 
 
 Dellc Colonne Guido *43 
 
 Comanini Gregorio 3 1 
 
 Commandino Federigo 329, 330 
 
 Compagni Dino 1 7 
 
 Compagni Giufto iS 
 
 Compagnoni Pompeo 152 
 
 Comparini Lorenzo ll1 
 
 Di S. Concordio Bartolommeo 35 
 
 Condivi Afcanio 3 10 
 
 Contarini Ambrogio 235 
 
 Conti Antonio io 3 
 
 Conti Santi 212 
 
 De Conti Giufto 7* 
 
 Contil e Luca 77 
 
 Contarini Pietro *55 
 
 Contarini Gafparo 45 
 
 Contarini Giambattifta *54 
 
 Corbinelli Jacopo 252 
 
 Corio Bernardino 1D 7 
 
 Cornaro Luigi 33 
 
 Cornazano Antonio 5j 
 
 Corfini Bartolommeo 12 $ 
 
 Corfo Antonjacopo 7 
 
 Di Coftanzo Angelo * 6 & 
 
 Cotta
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Cotta Fabio 
 Craflb Lorenzo 
 Crefcimbeni Gianmario 
 Crifolfo Bernardo 
 Crivellati Cefare 
 Groce Cefare 
 
 
 . 
 
 D 
 
 Page 
 
 104 
 
 190, 192 
 
 392, 308 
 
 24.6 
 
 337 
 70 
 
 84 
 
 35> 57> 58, 67, 71, 307 
 
 7' 
 
 3 2 9 
 
 240,316 
 
 214, 216 
 
 217, 161 
 
 164 
 
 352 
 
 95 
 
 329 
 
 125, 128 
 
 340 
 255 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 144 
 
 340 
 
 *53 
 
 96 
 
 37, 57> 6o > 6 3, 6 4> 71* 8r,86, 
 96, 109, 129, 133, 135, 136, 137, 130, 153, 
 180, 190, 201, 213, 222,223, 226, 246, 255 
 Domenichi Lodovico 24, 77,81, 95, 113, 131, 132, 
 M5 '49, 188, 182, 183, 184, 193 197, 198, 
 199, 200,224, 225, 253, 254, 3I i, 317, 16, 
 
 3> 3 6 > 37 . 
 Domenici Giovanni 5 
 
 De Dominis Marcantonio 161,176 
 
 Madame Dacier 
 
 Daniello Bernardino 
 
 Dante Alighieri 
 
 Dante da Majano 
 
 Danti Egnazio 
 
 Dati Carlo 
 
 Dati Giorgio 
 
 Davanzati Bernardo 
 
 Davila Enrico 
 
 Daviii Urbano 
 
 Decio Antonio 
 
 Dee Giovanni 
 
 Demarais Serafino Regnier 
 
 Dentice Luigi 
 
 Da Diacceto Francefco Cattani 
 
 Dino Francefco di 
 
 Diodati Giovanni 
 
 Dionigi da Fano 
 
 Diruta Girolamo 
 
 Doglioni NicoJo 
 
 Dolce Agoftino 
 
 Dolce Lodovico 16, 
 
 Donnola Faufto 
 Doni Antonfrancefco 
 Doni Giambattifta 
 Doria Paolo Mattia 
 
 16 
 
 151 
 
 317 
 
 341 
 
 39 
 
 D'Oria
 
 I N D E X. 
 
 Page 
 
 D Oria Bernardino 216 
 
 De'Dkttori Carlo 97 
 
 Ducchi Giorgio 91 
 
 Durantino Francefco Lucio 208 
 
 E 
 
 Egnazio Battifta 29 
 
 Egio Benedetto 2 2 r, 222 
 
 Emilio Marco 223 
 
 Equicola Mario 256 
 
 Erberg Mattia d' 1 
 
 Erizzo Sebaftiano 64, 23 1 
 
 F 
 
 Faleti Giordano 2 1 
 
 Faletti Girolamo 174 
 
 Da Fano Dionigt 144. 
 
 Fantoni Sebaftiano 152 
 Fauno Lucio 16, 143, 224, 228 
 
 Fauftini Agoftino 148 
 
 Faufto Vittorio 29 
 Faufto Baftiano 16, 71, 189, 247 
 
 Farulli Pietro 150 
 
 FazeloTomafo 156 
 
 Fedini Giovanni HO 
 
 Ferrentilli Agoftino 81,223 
 
 Ferro Girolamo 246 
 
 Ferro Gianfrancefco 149 
 
 Ferrofi Francefco 207, 326 
 
 Ferrari o Ruggiero 212 
 
 Ferrini Bartolomeo 238 
 
 Ferrucci Girolamo 148 
 
 Fiamma Ferrandino JO 
 
 Fiamma Gianfrancefco 10 
 
 Fiamma Gabriello 10, 74 
 
 Ficino Marfilio 2, 59 
 
 Figiovanni Carlo 135 
 Figliucci Alefiio or Felice 13, 14, 40, 2c8 
 
 Filelfo or Philelpho Francefco 26, 7 1 
 
 Filipopoli Francefco 224. 
 
 Fioretti Benedetto 27,28 
 
 Fiorentino Zaccheria 2 
 
 Fiorentino Giovanni 250 
 
 Fiorentino
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Fiorentino Marco Emilio 
 
 223 
 
 Fiorimbene Panfilio 
 
 209 
 
 Fiortifiocca Tomafo 
 
 184 
 
 Firenzuola Agnolo 78, 
 
 86, 105,250,255 
 
 Florimonte Galeazzo 
 
 26 
 
 Flori Francefco 
 
 233 
 
 Foglietta Uberto 
 
 169 
 
 Fola Torello 
 
 25 
 
 Folengo Teofilo 
 
 68 
 
 Fontana Domenico 
 
 3 2 4 
 
 Fonte Moderata 
 
 84 
 
 Fontanini Sifto 
 
 25, ^s^^o 
 
 Forerio or Foriero Francefco 
 
 13^4 
 
 Da Forli Biondo 
 
 229 
 
 Fornari Simone 
 
 60 
 
 Forteguerri Nicolo 
 
 70,142 
 
 Fortunio Agoftino 
 
 i5 
 
 Fofcarari Egidio 
 
 *3> J 4 
 
 Fofla Evangelifta 
 
 133 
 
 Fra Paolo Sarpi 
 
 176 
 
 Fracaftoro Girolamo 
 
 235 
 
 Francefchi Matteo 
 
 36 
 
 Franco Nicolo 
 
 255 
 
 Fregofo Antonio 
 
 9i 
 
 Frezzi Federigo 
 
 57> 6 7 
 
 Frifius 
 
 4 
 
 Frugoni 
 
 70 
 
 G 
 
 
 Gabrieli Domenico 
 
 19 
 
 Gabrielli Jacopo 
 
 332 
 
 Gaburacci Francefco 
 
 60 
 
 Gaddi Jacopo 
 
 106 
 
 Gaetano Filippo 
 
 118 
 
 Gaforio Franchino 
 
 335 
 
 Galilei Galileo 
 
 52, 33 1 
 
 Galilei Vincenzo 
 
 339 
 
 Galladei Matteo 
 
 96 
 
 Gallucci Gianpaolo 
 
 3i7 
 
 Gallucci Giufeppe 
 
 189 
 
 Gallucci Paolo 
 
 3 2 9>33* 
 
 Gambara Veronica 
 
 83 
 
 A a j 
 
 Gandini
 
 I N D X. 
 
 Page 
 
 Gandini Marcantonio 37, 196, 200, 208 
 
 Garimberti Girolamo 103 
 
 Garzoni Pietro 153 
 
 Gelli Giambattifta 39,106,128,183 
 
 Gerardo Pietro 1 89 
 
 Gefner a 
 
 GefTano Gianandrea 101 
 
 Gefualdo Gianandrea 
 GhiHni Girolamo 
 Ghini Lionardo 
 Ghirardacci Cheiubino 
 
 7* 
 
 192 
 132 
 
 *74 
 
 Ghirardelli ) ilippo 101 
 
 Giacobilli Federico 1 50 
 
 Giacobelli Vincenzio 09 
 
 Giacomini Lorenzo 
 
 240 
 
 Giambullari Pierfrancefco 164 
 
 Giannone Pietro 176 
 
 Gianotti Donato 4 o 
 
 Gigli Girolamo 306 
 
 Gilio Giovannandrea 98 
 
 Giolito Giovanni 18, 66 
 
 Giordano da Rialto 7 
 
 Giorgi AlelTandro ^ ( 
 
 Giovanni Fiorentino 250 
 Giovio Paolo 145, 161, 182, 183 
 Giraldi Ctntio Giambattifla 95, 107, 121, 148, 251 
 
 Giudici Giovanni loi 
 
 Giuntini PVancefco 171 
 
 Giullano Piero r } 6 
 
 Giuftiniano Giovanni 142 } 247 
 
 Giuftiniano Girolamo 13O 
 
 Giuftiniano Agoftino 169 
 
 Giuftiniano Orfatto 129 
 
 Giuftiniano Lorenzo 18 jg 
 
 Giuftiniano Leonardo go 
 
 Giufto de' Conti 72 
 
 Giufti Vincenzo 1 1 6, 99 
 
 Gonella 
 
 253 
 
 Gonzaga Curzio ^ 
 
 Gonzaga Cefare 76 
 
 Gozzi Gafparo 83, 84, 95, 102 
 
 Gozzi
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Gozzi Nicolo Vito 40, 256 
 
 Gradenigo Piero 78 
 
 Granata P. Luigi di 16, 1 9 
 
 Grand i Jacopo 175 
 
 Grand li 102 
 
 Granucci Nicolo 250 
 Gravina Vincenzo 65, 102, 307, 308 
 
 Graziani Girolamo 6<j 
 Grazini Antonfrancefco 68, 106,108, 109 
 
 Grizio Pietro 15Q 
 Groto Luigi 95, 107, 121, 129 
 
 Gualandi Giambernardo 37, 280 
 
 Gualdo Galeazzo 181 
 
 Gualtieri Guido 235 
 
 Guarini Giambattifta 117, 120 
 
 Guafco Annibale 33 
 
 Guazzo Marco 62 
 
 Guazzo Stefana 39 
 
 Guazzo Mario 912 
 
 Guerini Giovanni 221 
 
 Guglielmini Domenico 322 
 
 Gugliniii Cola de 18 
 
 Guidiccione Lelio 1 31 
 
 Guidiccione Giovanni j6 
 Guicciardini Francefco 29, 42, 163 
 
 Guicciardini Lodovico 165 
 
 Guittone d' Arezzo 7 1 
 
 Guzzano Francefco 125 
 
 H 
 
 Haym Nicola Francefco 195, 310 
 
 Hieronimo da Ferrara 8 
 
 I 
 
 Jaconello Battifta Aleflandro 200 
 
 Jacopone da Todi . 72 
 
 Da Jefi Giorgini 136 
 
 Frate Uarione 21 
 
 Ingegneri Angelo 9$, 1 35 
 
 Interiano Paolo 332 
 
 Inveges Agoftino 156 
 
 Johnfon Samuel 304 
 
 D' Ifa Ottavio 1 1 7 
 
 A a 3 Lafarina
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Lt 
 
 Lafarina Martino 156 
 
 LalJi Giambattifta 69 
 
 Lamberti Arcangelo 161 
 
 Lamo Aleflandro 317 
 
 Lana Jacopo 57 
 
 Lanci Cornelio 113 
 
 Landino Criftoforo 57, 225, 238 
 
 Landi Ortenfio 4 
 
 Lantieri Jacopo 322 
 
 Lapino Frofino 1 5 
 Lafca <?8, 106, 108, 109 
 
 Latini Brunetto 35, 247 
 Lauro Pietro 16, 17, 18, 199, 230 
 
 Lengueglia Agoftino 220 
 
 Leo Berardino 125 
 
 Leonardi Giovanni 34 
 
 Leone Ebreo 256 
 Leoni Giambattifta 42,100,101,183 
 
 Leoniceno Nicolo 196 
 
 Leopardi Girolamo 88 
 
 Leporeo Lodovico 137 
 
 Leti Gregorio 180 
 
 Licinio Bernardo 7 1 
 
 Lilio Zaccheria 143 
 
 Lilli Camillo 
 
 150 
 
 Lionardo da Capua 54 
 
 Lippi Lorenzo 67, 69 
 
 Liviera Giambattifta 100 
 
 Locato Omberto 174 
 Lollio Alberto 34, 121, 134, 142, 238, 239 
 
 Lollio Guido 2IC 
 
 Lomacio Gianpietro 335 
 
 Lomazzi Gianpaolo 318, 319 
 
 Lombardelli Orazio 31, 32 
 
 Lombardi Bernardino 107 
 
 Le Long 1 
 
 Da Longiano Faufto 37, 41, 46, 189, 247 
 
 Loredano Gianfrancefco 1 1 6 
 
 Lori Andrea y^ 
 
 Lucari Pietro 1 56 
 
 Luce
 
 I NDE X. 
 
 Page 
 
 Luce de Burgo 327 
 
 Lucio Giovanni 175 
 
 Luigi di Granata 16, 19 
 
 Luigini Federigo 30 
 
 Lupacchini Niccola 187 
 
 Lufingo Marcaurelio 177 
 
 Luzzago Agoftino 99 
 
 M 
 Macchiavelli Nicolo 44, 45, 106, / 72, 223, 228, 241, 
 
 251 
 
 Maffei Pietro 14 
 Maffei Scipione 80,912, 102, 162, 175 
 
 Magini Gianantonio 203 
 
 Magalotti Lorenzo 53 
 
 Da Majano Dante yx 
 
 Malavolti Girolamo Ubaldino 220 
 
 Malavolti Orlando 220 
 
 Malatefta Giufeppe 60 
 
 Malermi, or Manerbi, Nicolo de I, 4, 210 
 
 Malefpini Giacchetto 170 
 
 Malefpini Celio 251 
 
 Malefpini Ricordano 169 
 
 Malvagia Carlo Cefare -? 1 9 
 
 Mancini Lorenzo g 2 
 
 Manente Cipriano ir ( 
 
 Manfredi F.uftachio 322 
 
 Manfredi Geronimo 49 
 
 Manfredi Muzio 81,96 
 
 Manni Pomenico Maria 249 
 
 Manfo Giambattifta 192 
 Manuzio Aldo 71, 185, 187, 215 
 Manuzio Antonio 
 Manuzio, or Manucci, Paolo 
 Maracci Lodovico 
 Maraffi Domenico 
 Marchetti Aleffandro 
 Marchefe Annibale 
 Marchetti Aleffandro 
 Marcellino da Pifa 
 March i Francefco 
 Marceljo Pietro 
 
 A a 4 
 
 M 142 
 
 235 
 , 216 
 
 
 22 
 226 
 
 5 1 
 
 140 
 ior 
 
 1, 128 
 
 
 n 
 
 
 323 
 
 184 
 
 Mar-
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Marcellino Valerio 28 
 
 Marini Lionardo 13, 14 
 
 Marino Gregorio 1 8 
 
 Marino Giambattifta 65 
 
 Marinella Lucrezia 83 
 
 Marmora Andrea ijg 
 
 Marmoringhi Santi 1 
 
 Martorelli Luigi 150 
 
 Martellini Ridolfo 123 
 
 MartelH Lodovico 132 
 
 Martini Raffaello in 
 
 Mafia Antonio 47 
 
 Mafucci Nicolo 108 
 
 Mafuccio Salernitano 249 
 
 Matteolo Pier Andrea 49 
 
 Mattraini Chiara 19, 20 
 
 Mauro Lucio 86, 148 
 
 Mautini Girolamo 10 
 
 Mazza Clemente 6 
 
 Maezini Giulio 24 
 
 Mazzuchelli 93 
 
 De' Medici Ippolito 132 
 
 De Medici Lorenzo 74, 86 
 
 De' Medici Lorenzino 1 05 
 
 Mellini Domenico 189 
 
 Menagio Egidio 75 
 
 Menni Vincenzio 134 
 
 Menzini Benedetto 85 
 
 Meffia Pietro 180 
 
 Metaftafio Pietro 1 24 
 
 Micheli Agoftino 16, 10 1 
 
 Michieli Romano 341 
 
 Michelini Famiano 322 
 
 Minerbetti Bernardo 132 
 Mini Paolo 50, 51* 132 
 
 Minturno Antonio 73 
 
 Minucci Minuccio 155 
 
 Miranda Giovanni 16, 17 
 
 Mocenigo Andrea 154 
 
 Molino Girolamo 78 
 
 Melza Francefco Maria 132, 86 
 
 MonaJ-
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Page 
 
 Monaldelchi Monaldo . 151 
 
 Monaldi Michele 79, 173 
 
 Montanari Nicola Alfonfo 102 
 
 Da Monte Alano Bernardo 7 1 
 
 Da Montemagno Buonaccorfo 72 
 
 Montfaucon Bernard 127 
 
 Monticielli 135 
 
 Mora Domeruco 322 
 
 Morelli Giovanni 170 
 
 Morici Giulio 240, 204 
 
 Morigia Paolo 177 
 
 Morofini Paolo 153 
 
 Morofini Andrea 1 54 
 
 Morra Ifabella 83 
 
 Mozzagrugno Giufeppe 19,20 
 
 Mugnos Filadelfo 156 
 Muratori Lodovico Antonio 50, 712, 173, 234 
 
 Muflb Cornelio 9 
 
 Muzi Giambattifta 23 
 Muzio Jeronimo 28, 29, ^6, 712, yy 
 
 N 
 
 Nani Battifta 167 
 Nannini Remigio ij, 16,42, 78, 136, 159,208,211, 
 
 221, 224, 238 
 Nardi Jacopo 17 1, 178, 212 
 
 Nardini Famiano 152, 229 
 
 Negrifoli Antonmario 134 
 
 Nelli Pietro 85 
 
 Neri Antonio 55 
 
 Nerli Filippo 172 
 
 Nefi Giovanni 238 
 
 Niceron 1 o 
 
 Nini Ettore 149 
 
 Nigrofanti Pietro 149 
 
 Nini Giacinto 138 
 
 Nizieli Udeno 27, 28 
 
 De Nores Giafone 240, 332 
 
 De Nores Pietro 240 
 
 Nozzolini Giufeppe 78 
 
 O 
 
 Qddi Muzio 333>334 
 
 D'Oddf
 
 INDE X. 
 
 Page 
 
 D'OddiSforza 112 
 
 Odoni Rinaldo 27 
 
 OHviero Antonfrancefco 6 1 
 
 Olmo Gianfrancefco J 54 
 
 Ongaro Antonio 1 22 
 
 Orbini Mauro IS5 
 
 Orlandi Giovanni 60 
 
 Ormo Valeriano 2 1 
 
 Orologi, or Orologgi, Giufeppe 32, 33, 162, 187 
 
 Ortica Agoftino 2 1 4, 2 1 6 
 
 Pell' Ottonaio Giambattifta 87 
 
 P 
 
 Paleotti Gabriello 3 20 
 
 Palladio Andrea 1 47> 2 H' 3 2 3 
 
 Pallavicino Sforza 100,177 
 
 Palmieri Matteo 39 
 
 Panigarola Francefco 10, 209 
 
 Pantaleoni Felice *5 r 
 
 Panziera Ugo 7 
 
 Fra Paolo Sarpi *5S 
 
 Paolucci Sigifmondo 3 
 
 Parabofco Girolamo 98,114 
 
 Paruta Paolo , 43 
 
 Paflavanti Jacopo 5 2 3 
 
 Patrizi Francefco 205,327 
 
 Pegolotti AlefTandro 88 
 
 Pellegrino Camillo l6 $ 
 
 Pellini Pompeo '5 , I 85 
 
 Perfio Antonio 5 6 
 
 Pefcetti Orlando 97 
 
 Petrarca Francefco 68, 7 ' ^3 l 79 
 
 Philelpho Francefco 26 
 
 Piccolomini AlefTandro 29, in, 132, 245, 254, 255 
 
 330 
 
 Piccolomini Nicolo 23 
 
 Pigafetta Filippo 19*207 
 
 Pigna Giambattifta 4 2 > 4"> J 4 6 > 1 74 
 
 Pignoria Lorenzo J 7 5 j 2 24 
 
 Pini AlefTandro J 75 
 
 Pini Valentino 333 
 
 Pino Bernardino J 6, J * 2 
 
 Pino
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Pno Paolo 320 
 
 Piovano Ariotto 253 
 
 Da Piftoja Cino 71 
 
 Pitti Buonaccorfo 171 
 
 Poggi Beltramo 100 
 
 Poggiano Giulio 14 
 Poggio Jacobo 27,157,196 
 
 Poggio Marco yi 
 
 Politi Adriano 305 
 Poliziano Angelo 91,59,86 
 
 Polo Marco 233 
 
 Polo Reginaldo 241 
 
 Pomodoro Giovanni 328 
 
 Ponchini Bernardino 74 
 
 Ponzio Pietro 338 
 
 Ponzio Scipione 137 
 
 Popolcfchi Dante 214 
 Porcacchi Tomafo 11, 16, 132, 194, 195, 203,204, 
 
 205,209. 210,211, 226, 253 
 
 Porpora Selvaggio 138 
 
 Delia Pcrta Giambattifta 99, 116 
 
 Porzio Camillo 168 
 
 Porzio Simone 168 
 
 Di Pofi Tizzone 326 
 
 Poffevino Giambattiita 151 
 
 Da Prato Domenico 141 
 
 Prifcianefe Francefco 218 
 
 Pulci Bernardo 90, 133 
 
 Pjiki Luca 59, 72,90 
 Pulci Luigi 59, 67, 90, 307 
 
 Quadrio 309 
 
 Querini Angelo Maria 241 
 
 R 
 
 Ragazzoni Girolamo 247 
 
 Ramelli Agoftino 322 
 
 Ramufio Giambattifta aoi, 235 
 
 Ramufio Girolamo j^ 
 
 Rarnufio Paolo 154 
 
 Rangoni Pietro 219 
 
 Razzi Girolamo 94,110 
 
 Razzi
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Razzi Serafino 
 
 I5& 
 
 Razzi Silvano 
 
 6, 94, 184 
 
 Recanati Giambattifta 
 
 $4> 157 
 
 Redi Francefco 
 
 53, 54, 88 
 
 Regio Rafaello 
 
 29 
 
 Regnier Serafino 
 
 125, 128 
 
 Regolotti 
 
 128 
 
 Reina Carlo Giufeppe 
 
 181 
 
 Rembaldi Benvemito 
 
 57 
 
 Remigio Fiorentino 78, 136,159, 1 
 
 73, 208, 211, 
 
 221, 224, 238 
 
 
 Ricchi Agoftino 
 
 105 
 
 Ricci Giuliano 
 
 106 
 
 Riccoboni 
 
 240 
 
 Ridolfi Carlo 
 
 320 
 
 Ridolfi Luca Antonio 
 
 2 55 
 
 Rinaldi Piervincenzo 
 
 33* 
 
 Rinaldini Panfilo 
 
 63 
 
 Rinuccini Ottavio 
 
 78 
 
 Riondi Michelangelo 
 
 3 r 4 
 
 Rith Biagio 
 
 54 
 
 Riva 
 
 70 
 
 Rivetti Giorgio 
 
 5 
 
 Rocca Bernardino 
 
 205, 207 
 
 Rocchi Girolamo 
 
 237 
 
 Rodolfini Angelo 
 
 J 3 6 
 
 Rolli Paolo 
 
 85, 86, 140 
 
 Romei Annibale 
 
 46 
 
 Rofario Criftoforo 
 
 >4t 
 
 Rofeo Mambrino 
 
 211, 219 
 
 Rofitini Bartolomeo 
 
 130 
 
 Rofitini Lodovico 
 
 !3Q 
 
 Rofitini Pietro 
 
 130, 190 
 
 De' Rofii Baitiano 27, 57, 
 
 io 9> J 43> 3 6 
 
 De Rofii Giufeppe 
 
 33* 
 
 Del Roflb Paolo 89, 
 
 148, 218, 219 
 
 Rota Berardino 
 
 78 
 
 Fra Ruberro 
 
 8 
 
 Rucellai Giovanni 
 
 89,92 
 
 Rufcelli Girolamo 16, 29,60,71,81, 105, 145, 182, 
 
 2P3 
 
 Rufconi
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Rufconi Gianantonio 
 
 
 209, 325 
 
 Rufpaggiari Alfonfo 
 
 s 
 
 7 
 
 Sabadino Giovanni 
 
 
 249 
 
 Sabbatini Nicola 
 
 
 322 
 
 Sabeilico Marcantonio 
 
 
 15* 
 
 Sada Ottaviano 
 
 
 231 
 
 Sagredo Giovanni 
 
 
 161 
 
 Sala 
 
 
 27 
 
 Salernitano Mafuccio 
 
 
 249 
 
 Salimbeni Angelo 
 
 
 91 
 
 Salviati Lionardo 5, 
 
 32, 109, 217, 
 
 240, 242, 243 
 
 Salvini Antonmaria 69, 
 
 72, 122, 120, 
 
 128, 171,234, 
 
 _ 244, 245 
 
 
 
 Salvini Salvino 
 
 
 171, 192,240 
 
 Sanazzaro Jacopo 
 
 
 77 
 
 Sannuto Livio 
 
 
 *39 
 
 Sanfedoni Aleflandro 
 
 
 133 
 
 Sanfovino Francefco it 
 
 ), 41, 71, 85, 
 
 86, 155, 162, 
 
 164, 227,233,2 
 
 39 
 
 
 Saracini Giuliano 
 
 
 149 
 
 Sardi Gafparo 
 
 
 148 
 
 Sardi Pietro 
 
 
 324 
 
 Sarnclli Pompeo 
 
 
 152 
 
 Sarpi Paolo 
 
 
 44> 45> *5S 
 
 Savonarola Hieronymo 
 
 
 8 
 
 Savorgnano Mario 
 
 
 324 
 
 Scala Giovanni 
 
 
 328 
 
 Scammozzi Vincenzo 
 
 
 147* 323 
 
 Scarampo Giambattifta 
 
 
 SS 
 
 Scoto Francefco 
 
 
 147 
 
 Scupoli Lorenzo 
 
 
 7 
 
 Secchi Nicolo 
 
 
 114 
 
 Segneri Paolo - 
 
 
 6, 11 
 
 Segni Bernardo 
 
 
 35 
 
 Segni Pietro 
 
 
 209 
 
 Semproni Giovan Leone 
 
 
 66 
 
 Senarega Matteo 
 
 
 216 
 
 Serafino Acquilano 
 
 
 73 
 
 Serafini Michelangelo 
 
 
 255 
 
 Serdonati Francefco 
 
 
 218,219 
 Seri-
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Sefipandb Giiolamo- 
 Serlio Baftiano 
 Sforza Ifabella 
 Sforza Pallavicino 
 Shakefpear 
 Sigonio Gandolfo 
 Silveftri Camillo 
 Stlveftro Prierio 
 Stmeoni Gabriello 
 Simlerus 
 Siri Vittorio 
 Cardinale Sirleto 
 Soderini Ginefio 
 De Solis Antonio 
 Sommaripa Giorgio 
 Soprani Raffaello 
 Sorella Vincenzo Antonio 
 Sorte Criftofano 
 Spannocchi Pandolfo 
 Spano Pietro 
 Spataro Giovanni 
 Spelta Antonmaria 
 Speroni Sperone 
 Spinello AlefTandro 
 Spino Pietro 
 Spontone Ciro 
 Spreti Defiderio 
 Squarciafico Girolamo 
 Stampa Gafpara 
 Stelluti Francefco 
 Strapparola Gianfrancefco 
 Da Strata Zanobi 
 StrozziFilippo 
 Strozzi Soldo 
 Sufio Giambattifta 
 
 T 
 Tamburini Tommafo 
 Tanfillo Luigi 
 Tando AnfeJmo 
 Tarcagnota Giovanni 
 Tarfia Gianmaxia 
 
 Page' 
 
 it 
 
 323 
 
 32 
 
 106 
 
 307 
 
 338 
 
 m 
 
 5 
 
 85, 147, 206 
 
 4 
 
 158, 159 
 
 r 3 14 
 
 220 
 
 162 
 
 127,137 
 
 320 
 
 73 
 
 320 
 
 J 37 
 
 49 
 
 336 
 
 '93 
 
 47, 48, 92, 240 
 
 98 
 
 184 
 
 4'> 43 
 
 149 
 
 210 
 
 83, 142 
 
 50,138 
 
 251 
 
 24,25 
 
 206 
 
 196, 197 
 
 47 
 
 .<8 
 
 64,89 
 
 38 
 
 164 
 
 244 
 
 Tarfia
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Tarfia Giandomenico 2 1 2 
 
 Tartaglia Nicolo 330, 332 
 
 Taflb Bernardo 61,76 
 TalTo Torquato 33, 47, 48, 52, 6r, 64, 73, 76, 79, 
 
 93 95> 9 6 > "J J 22, 136, 147 
 
 Taffoni AleiTandro 52, 67, 68, 712 
 
 Tatti Francefco 227 
 
 Tebaldeo Antonio 75 
 
 Tegrimi Nicolo 185 
 
 Da Tempo Antonio 71 
 
 Di S. TerefaGiangiufeppc 162 
 
 Termino Antonio 81 
 
 Terracina Laura 60, 84 
 
 Terzaga Guido 57 
 
 Tefauro Emanuel 146,157 
 
 Theuli Bonaventura 152 
 
 Thuanus 78 
 
 Tigrini Orazio 340 
 
 Da Todi Jacopone 72 
 
 Tolomei Claudio 30, 242, 326 
 
 Toman* Giorgio 189 
 
 Tommafi Francefco 31 
 
 Tonduzzi G. Cefare 149 
 
 Torelli Pomponio 07 
 
 Torricelli Evangelifta 333 
 
 Tortora Marcantonio 247 
 
 Tofcano Matteo 
 
 129 
 
 Tofcanella Orazio 16, 60, 226 
 
 Tramezino Giofeffo 247 
 
 Trevifan Bernardo ^r 
 
 Triflino Giangiorgio 31, 60, 6$, 912, 104, 308 
 
 Trotti Bernardo go 
 
 Tullia d' Aragona 256 
 
 Turchi Francefco 16,812,212 
 
 u 
 
 Ubaldino Petruccio 185, 179 
 
 Degli Uberti Fazio 89 
 
 Ulloa Alfonfo 16, 162, 180, 184 
 
 Dell Uva Benedetto 65 
 
 Vacca
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 V 
 
 Vacca Flaminio 225F 
 
 Valerio Andrea *55 
 
 Valla Lorenzo 146 
 
 ValleTeodoro 15* 
 
 Delia Valle Pietro 23 2 > 2 3 6 
 
 Valli Matteo *49 
 
 Vallone Gianantonb 138 
 
 Vallori Baccio 70> 217 
 
 ValoriNicolo 17** 188 
 Di Valvafone Erafmo 65, 8 1 , 1 3> " 3 s 
 
 Vanocci Orefte 35 
 Varchi Benedetto 38, 77, 86, 106, 158, 238, 242, 
 
 244, 3 20 
 
 Vafari Giorgio 3 20 >3 21 
 
 Vafio Giampaolo * Z 
 
 Vecajazzani Matteo *5 2 
 
 Vecellio Cefare 35 
 
 Vedriani Lodovico 3'4 
 
 Vellutello Alcffandro 57, 7 1 
 
 De Velo Giambattifta 1 01 
 
 Da Venafro Silvano 7 1 
 
 Vendramino Federigo 37 
 
 Veneroni 3" 
 
 Veniero Matteo 9& 
 
 VenturiFrancefco !9 
 
 Verdizzotti Giovanmario 9 
 
 Vergerio Pietropaulo 2 3^ 
 
 Verlato Lecnoro 9^ 
 
 VettoriPietro 2 4 
 
 VianiFuIvio 3 2 9 
 
 Vianoli Aleflandro Maria 154 
 
 VicoEnea 230,231 
 
 Vicentino Nicolo 337 
 
 De' V icri Francefco 5 t 
 
 Da Vignola Barozzi l8, 325 
 
 Villani Filippo J 7 
 Villani Giovanni I5 6 > l 7> 2 33 
 
 Villani Matteo ' 7 
 
 Villifranchi Giovanni I22 
 
 Viraercato Giambattifta 333
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Vinciguerra 85 
 
 Vintimiglia Giovanni 190 
 
 Vifconte Matteo 1 5 3 
 
 Vito de Gozzi Nicole* 4 
 
 Vittorelli Andrea 177 
 
 Vittoria Vincenzo 3 19 
 
 Vives Lodovico 34 
 
 Viviani Vincenzo 333 
 
 Viviojacopo 316 
 
 Voragine Jacobo da 3 
 
 z. 
 
 Zacconi Lodovico 340 
 
 Zanobi da Strata 24, 25 
 
 Zanchi Bernardo 109 
 
 Zanotti Giampietro 102, 319 
 
 Zarlino Giufeppc 336 
 
 Zappulo Michele 143 
 
 Zeffi Gianfrancefco 24 
 
 Zeno Antonio 236 
 Zeno Apoftolo 17, 25, 56, 97i99> no, 118, 124, 
 127, 133, 140,153, 163, 164,200,206,212, 
 215, 225, 228, 233, 310 
 
 Zeno Claterino 236 
 
 Zeno Nicolo 236 
 
 Zeno Piercaterino 167 
 
 Zilioli Aleflandro 144 
 
 Zinano Gabriello 73 
 
 Zonca Vittorio 32 r 
 
 Zoppio Girolamo 78 
 
 Zoppio Melchiorre 98 
 
 Zuccari Federico 312, 32 r 
 
 Zucchi Bartolomeo 210 
 
 Zucco Accio 90 
 
 Zuccolo Gregorio 149 
 
 Zuccolo Lodovico 30,41 
 
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