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The total Number of English Poets, of whom specimens are given by CAMPBELL, is only 241. But Campbell does not include living Poets.

The living Poets form nearly one half of the Total of the Italian Collection. So it always is. Fashion, and personal influence, introduce numerous pretenders into temporary notice.

ART. XIX.* ELOGIA OF ITALIAN LITERATI.

1. Pauli Jovii Novocomensis Episcopi Niccerini Elogia Virorum literis illustrium, quotquot vel nostra vel avorum memoria vixere. Basil. Petri Pernae Typographi opera ac studio 1577. Fol.

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Virorum Bellico Virtute illustrium. Ibi, 1575.

3. Le glorie de gli Incogniti overo gli huomini illustri dell' Accademia de' Signori Incogniti di Venezia. Ven. par F. Valvasense, 1647. 4.

4. Elogiographus; scilicet Elogia Omnigena Jacobi Gaddi Suogliati. Florentiae. par Ana Massa, 1638, 4. Rarissimus vix notus. See Voght, 295.

5. Jacobi Philippi Tomasini Patavini Illustrium Virorum Elogia iconibus exornata, etc. Patavii. Apud Donatum Pasquardum et socium 1630. 4.

6. Jacobi Philippi Tomasini Patavini Episcopi Emoniensis Elogia Virorum literis et sapientia illustrium ad vivum expressis imaginibus exornata, etc. Patavii ex Typographia Sebastiani Santi, 1644. 4. 7. Illustrium Mulierum et illustrium litteris Virorum Elogia a Julio Casare Capacio Neapolitano Urbi a Secretis conscripta. Neapoli, apud Jo. Jacobum Carlinum, et Constantinum Vitalem, 1608, 4.

8. Jani Nicii Erithraei Pinacotheca Imaginum, illustrium doctrinae vel ingenii laude Virorum, qui, auctore superstite diem suum obierunt. Colon. Agrippinæ apud Jodocum Kalcovium et socios 1645. 12.

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The real name of the author was VITTORIO. Rossi, a Roman Noble, and celebrated Author, born 1577, died 1647, aged 70.

9. Teatro d'Huomini letterati aperto dall' Abbate Girolamo Ghilini, Academico Incognito etc. In Venezia per li Guerigli, 1647. 4.

10. Elogii d'Huomini letterati scritti da Lorenzo CrasSO In Venezia 1656. a vol. 4.

II. Memorie, imprese, e ritratti degli Accademici Gelati. Bologna 1672. 4.

Published by Giambatt. Capponi .

12. Elogi Accademici della Società degli Spensierati di Rossano di Giacinto Gimma colle Memorie Storiche della Società. Napoli, 1703, Parte 11. con fig.

13. Fasti Consolari dell' Accademia Fiorentina di Salvino Salvini Consolo della medesima e Rettore Generale dello studio di Firenze. In Firenze 1717.4. 14. De Bassanesi illustri Narrazione di Bartolomeo Gamba Accademico Fiorentino, con un Catalogo degli Scrittori di Bassano del Secolo XVIII. Bassauo 1807, 8.

15. Memorie Istoriche dell' Adunanza degli Arcadi, In Roma, nella Stamperia de' Rossi 1761. 8. By Michael Giuseppe Morei. Custode Generale d'Arcadia.

16. Uomini illustri Toscani, 4. vols. Imp. 4. Firenze 1768.

Ibid. 4. vols. Lucca, 1772, 8.

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PAULUS JOVIUS, a celebrated Historian and man of Letters, was born at Como; 19. Apr, 1483. In 1516 he came to Rome under the patronage of Leo X. He was promoted by Clement VII, to the Bishopric of Nocera. His manners and morals are said not to have been very strict nor entirely conformable to the sanctity of his Profession. In his latter years he was afflicted with the gout; and retired from the Court of Rome, first to Como; and afterwards to Florence where he died 11. Dec. 1552 at the age of 69. The Duke of Milan, and the princely Houses of Farnese, Este, Urbino, Medici, and Gonzaga all distinguished him by their notice. He was a multifarious author; though much of his time was passed in travels, courts, and offices. But he was accused of being mercenary in his praises; and of sacrificing the truth to adulation. Many assert that he was accustomed to boast, that he had two pens one of gold; the other of iron; and that he could use either, as it suited him. Though his History must be read with caution, it is full of entertainment, from the copiousness of its notices. It extends from the beginning of the Neapolitan War of Charles VIII to 1347., and comprehends every thing memorable through all the world during that period, except that six Books are wanting, from the fifth to the eleventh which embraced the time from the death of Charles VII, to the election of Leo X. The MS. of these Books was destroyed at the sacking of Rome and six others from the 19th to the 24th inclusive, that is, from the death of Leo X, to the crisis of that

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fatal Sack; which he protested he could not write, on account of the pain of those calamitous events: but he in some measure supplied it by separate lives of Alfonso Duke of Ferrara; of Gonsalvo da Cordova; of Adrian VI. of Leo X, of the Marq. di Pescara ; and of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna. The first Edition of this History was printed at Florence by Torrenti1550. He also wrote the Lives of the XII Viscontis, Princes of Milan and Descriptions of the Island of Great Britain; of Moscovy; and of The Lake of Como : besides his ELOGIA. These were written at his pleasant Villa, built upon the Lake of Como ; where he had collected a series of Portraits of the most illustrious Persons; of whom he was desirous to perpetuate the memory by these Elogia.

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All his WORKS were collected, and published at Basil, in 6. vols. Fol. 1578.

JACOPO GADDI was held in much esteem for his erudition in the XVIIth Century; and lived under the Pontificates of Urban VII, and Innocent X, who both distinguished him by their notice. He gave many publications to the world: viz. Corollarium Poeticum: Corona Poetica; - Elogia

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GIACOMO FILIPPO TOMMASINI, was born at Padua in 1597.. and died at Nova in Istria of which he was Bishop, in 1654, aged 57. Literature was his

* These formed the foundation of the Series now in the Royal Gallery of Florence.

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