by Don Sempere, contains, as far as it goes, a good account of Spanifh authors and their progrefs in the arts and fciences. Rudiments of Naval Tactics," by Don Salazar. The Poems of Don Valdez;" "A Volume of New Comedies;" "A Collection of Chronicles, or Memoirs on Spanish Hiftory," many of them from fearce MSS. "Odes" by Leon D'Arroixal. All the above are publifhed at Madrid. "Political, Military, and Moral Inftructions," by Don Copons, printed at Murcia. "A Tract on the Art of making Wine," by Don Jofeph Navaro, Barcelona; "Difcourfes read before the Royal Society of Oviedo," Madrid. "Memoirs of the economical Royal Society of Majorca," printed at Palma, in the island of Majorca. The above are the pub. lications come to our knowledge, befides which there is a "Periodical Journal" publifhed at Madrid monthly, containing meteorological, medical, and chirurgical obfervations; an account of what paffes in the royal academy of Madrid; thefes and other fcholaftic exercises of the univerfities; a defeription of the feftivals, religious and others; extracts of royal edicts; a lift of theatrical exhibitions; accounts of fires, new buildings, and other temporary matters; together with a lift of new publications, but without any character of them whatever : fuch are the contents of this journal. FINIS. far as it goes, to the Frederician Code. M. Levefque, is alfo tranflated into Italian. Perhaps it is the best hiftory of Ruffia extant, and the tranflation is faid to be faithful. The twelfth volume of Saccarelli's "Ecclefiaftical History," in Latin, has appeared. The abbé Seftini has publifhed feven volumes of "Letters, written from Sicily and Turkey, to his Friends in Tuscany.” They are printed at Leghorn; and the abbe has paid particular atten "A New Arabic Lexicon, by John Willmet," is published at Rotterdam, forme of the "Koran," "Hariri," and the "Life of Timur," three works which are fuppofed to be written in the pureit Arabic. At Leyden, the chevalier Junei has published a "General History of the Kingdoms of Cyprus, Jerufa. lem, Armenia, and Egypt;" a work deferving all posible attention to the private lives of the tion by thofe whofe historical refearches are this way bent. To this Hiftory is added the prefent State of Egypt, a Differtation on their Hieroglyphics, and reflections on the proper means to conquer Egypt and Cyprus. This History is written in French. Having thus given a brief account of all the works most deferving notice that have come within our knowledge, publifhed in Ruffia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Holland, we fhall now turn our attention fouthwards, and proceed with a recapitulation of the works of Italian authors which have appeared in the courfe of the year 1785, and fuch of 1784, as had not before come to hand. M. Grimaldi has published feve ral volumes of his Annals of the Kingdom of Naples." The extracts we have feen are written with a free and philofophic fpirit, which is always the more honourable to its author when exercifed in a country inimical to liberty of fpeech and action. He has invited the learned to give him their allistance, with a promife to publish the names of thofe who fall contribute to his work. He has likewife greatly profited by our own famous hiftorian, Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." The "History of Ruffia," written in French by Turks, the natural and botanical productions of the countries he had paffed through, and been careful to fupply the defects of other travellers, who have had too much hate and too little attention to defcribe the Ottomans, and their empire, fuch as they really are. From Leghorn, likewife, John Mariti has fent his "Chronology of the Latin Kings of Jerufalem” into the world. It includes nearly four centuries, that is to fay, from the proclamation of Godfrey in 1099, to the death of James the Pofthumous, fon of James the Bastard, in the year 1475 In our laft Register we mentioned a daring friar who had contested the legal rites of primacy of the pope; at present we muth mention an author, who, with a more religious but lefs philofophic fpirit, has written an antwer, in which he has not fpared his endeavours to load the aforefaid hardy friar with all the opprobrium in his pow. er. "Piedmontefe Bography, by Charles Tenirelli, Decade the Firft," has been printed at Turin, and contains the lives of eight kings of the Lombards, and two of Italy, born in Piedmont, or at least convoking the fates there. M. Maffa, advocate at Mantua, has published "A Treatife on Crimes and Punishments," which, in fact, is the work of the famous Becca ria re-tranflated from a French author, who himself had tranflated Beccaria from the Italian, but by another arrangement had made fome improvements in the work. The prefent tranflator has added notes. The first volume is only yet printed, at Monaco, at the expence of the typographical fociety. The first volume of a "Hiftoricalchronological Abstract of pontifical, imperial, and fe&tary Councils, with political and moral Reflections, Citations, and Remarks," has been written by M. Forci, and printed at Florence. Tafte, precision, and learning, characterize this work, which is in reality a fmall library in its kind. Our readers perhaps will excufe, or perhaps thank us for noticing a tract contemptible in itfelf on account of its fubject, but for that reafon curious to the good free protestants of England. It is an oration by the abbé Traversari, in praife of the bleffed Lorenzo de Brindifi. That they may judge we will tranflate a fhort paffage, where the holy orator defcribes the victory gained by the Auttrians over the Ottomans, under the favourable aufpices and in confequence of the prefence of Brinditi: "Oh, what a fpectacle it was to behold him, infpired by God, animating by his prefages the combatants; giving courage, by the found of his voice, to chiefs who ftood in fufpence, and communicating his own ar dour to the timid battalions. Spite of the inequality of troops, and the difadvantage of the fituation of the pofts, Lorenzo, in the name of the God of Armies, counfelled the attack. Admire him! behold! he no more resembles a mortal and terreftrial being! All the confidence of Mofes, praying on the mountain, fhines in his face; his courage difplays all the zeal of Jofhua vanquishing the Amalekites. With one hand he triumphant elevates the fign of the crofs, with the other guides his courfer, who, himfelf, directed by fome fuperior virtue, winds and faves his rider in his fwift courfe from the well-aimed blows of barbarian feymitars. Thus animating the troops of the faithful, he rapidly flies where wing the greatest number of inimical ar rows, where thunders with loudett fury the enemy's artillery. Courageous chiefs, in vain would you intercept his career! Behold you not, defcended from on high, the Almighty wars for him and you? What, though death, glanced from a thoufand parts, comes to affault him, obedient to his voice, death ftops, and with double fury returns to exterminate the reproved nation. See the unequal arinies approach, they clafh, they mingle, the fight grows hot, but foon the heavens declare for justice and the faithful, The barbarian ranks cannot with ftand the Auftrian valour, infpired and protected by heaven; they are broken and caft to the earth. God difperfes and bows them down, the fword mows them, the proud Ottoman fwims in a fea of blood, and views with terror twenty thoufand of his flain warriors. Flight only can fave him, and flight itfelf is rafh and uncertain; mountains of flain, duft and finoke top and confound him, and the exterminating angel purfues him, Via illorum tenebre et angelus Domini perfequens eos. (Pfal. xxxv.) All is ruin and de fpair for the vanquifhed, all fafety and triumph for the victor." Eloquence must be allowed the orator, but eloquence for the propagation of falfehood and glaring abfurdity, becomes only the more ridiculous by its excellence. Count Charles Bettoni, equally to the honour of his heart and understand; ing, propofed a prize of a hun X 4 dred dred fequins to the author of twenty-four tales, which might beft infpire youth with the love of virtue. This prize, on after-confideration, was offered for the best memoir on the Means of kindling and preferving the Love of Virtue among the young Nobility. The memoirs to be judged by the academicians of Padua. Somewhat to the difgrace of Italian literature, the prize memoir was written by M. Lieberkuhn, and the two fe cond beft by meffieurs Villaume and Hottinger, all three Germans. At Naples the first volume of Captain Cook's Voyages is tranflated and publifhed, and is faid to be well executed. A Profpectus alfo of an Italian Cyclopædia has appeared there. At Ferrara the abbé Aime. rich has written in Latin "An Enquiry concerning the Works of ancient Authors that have been loft in part, or wholly." The work is erudite and acute, and will give pleafure to lovers of claffic learning. Abbé Denina has collected and augmented his "Differtations on the Revolutions of Literature," and published the firft volume of the third edition. The canon Mario Lupo, known for his profound erudition, has prefented the world with the first volume of his "Codex Diplomaticus, Civitatis et Ecclefiæ Bergomenfis," printed in folio at Bergamo; a learned and ufeful work for law ftudents. Father Delfini at Turin, has given a Relation of the Expedition of the French Fleet in the East Indies during the years 1781, 2, and 3, under the Command of M. de Suffrein;" the following is a quotation from his work: Three failors brought me a young officer wound ed and dying, whom I entreated in his last inoments to hope in God; the poor youth with a faint voice faid, "Alas there is no more hope!" and expired. With the help of a failor I took his body, and was carrying him to one of the gunners to have him thrown into the fea; meanwhile a ball brushed by my head, and another almost touched me a little below the waift: an offi• cer feeing me, called out, reverend Sir, get to your pot; I am going, replied I, I am not fool enough to stay here." M. Pignotii has given a fifth edition at Lucca, of his "Fables and Poems," which we mention, becaufe among the things added, is a fhort poem called "the Tomb of Shakspeare." The fame of our immortal bard will in time be spread over the whole earth. The Abbé Seftini has printed at Florence, a fmall but apparently valuable work, on "Turkish Gardening, Agriculture, and Hunting, as practifed on the canal of Conftantinople." The "Flora Pedemonta, by M. Allioni, fuperintendant of the Botany Garden and Museum," has ap peared at Turin. The work was impatiently expected; it is in two volumes folio, with ninety two plates, containing figures of new or rare plants, to the number of two hundred and twenty eight; his plants are all natives of Fiedmont, and amount to more than two thoufand eight hundred, his fyftem the fame as in his fifth volume of "Mifcellanies of the Royal Soci ety of Turin." The fecond volume of the "Elements of Canonical Jurifprudence" has at length appeared at Bologna, containing fubjects in alphabetical arrange ment, from the letter D), to the lctter I. The fame clearness and precifion which diftinguifhed the firth volume, are apparent in the fecond. The Abbé Campferver has pub lifhed a fhort work on "Cofmography, and the prefent flate of the World," (meant as a profpectus to an intended large one) which he has executed with method, learning, and intelligence. The Abbé Curiazio, member of the Royal A cademy of Naples, has published a "Memoir on Mulberry Trees and Silk Worms," very ufeful to all concerned in the culture of thofe objects, because the obfervations are made in a country where this culture has been brought to the higheft perfection; it is printed at Rome. The firft volume of "Let ters on Meteorology" have been published by Abbé Cavalli at Rome, which form the first part of a complete elementary treatife on that fcience, with directions how to choose the best inftruments, and make observations leaft liable to error. At the fame city, the Abbé Marini has published "The Ancient Inferiptions of the Palaces and Country Houfes of the Albani Family," with notes; which is faid to be one of the most curious in its kind that has ever appeared, "An Eulogy in honour of Captain Cook," read before the Royal Academy at Florence, has appeared at that city; the author is M. Gianetti. At Faenza, M. Zaccaria has republished, in two volumes, the "Diflertations Sacred and Profane," of the learned Florentine antiquarian, P. Lupi; whofe character is well known. At Florence the fecond volume "On Navigation Laws" has appeared, and the impatience with which those who had read the first waited for this work, is a prefage of its merit and fuccefs. A beautiful edition of "Anacreon, with a Latin verfion, has been given from the royal prefs at Parma, aud is faid to equal any thing which the typographical art has hitherto produced. The learned editor Bodoni has, with no common erudition, written " An Eflay on the Life, Character, and Death of Anacreon, his Writings, and the Age in which he lived." An equally beautiful edition of "Hefiod" has iffued from the fame prefs, with the excellent Latin verfion of Abbé Zamagna. The Italians, and the learned world in general, are indebted for both to the royal munificence of the arch-duke Ferdinand. The Abbé Seraffi has published "A Life of Taffo," of which the Italian reviewers fpeak in high terms. "The Phaoniad," a tranflation of new found hymns and odes of Sappho, from Greek into Italian verfe, has appeared at Naples without a date; the probabilities are, that they are fpurious. M. Offur, one of the literati of Petersburgh, on board a Ruffian vetfel in the Egean Sea, arrived at the ancient Leucata, whence, from the top of a rock, the unhappy Sappho is faid to have caft herself. M. Offur was defirous to observe if any remains of the famous Leucadian Temple of Apollo ftill exifted; his curiofity was completely fatisfied. Among other monuments, he found a fragment with an ancient infcription, importing that Sappho had been buried there. Defirous of farther discoveries, he caufed excavations to be made in the environs, where he had the happinefs to find a hollow stone, in which papers were enclofed containing the verfes of the present tranflation. This appears very apochryphal, yet fuppofes a confiderable fund of Greek erudition in the impoftor, and a refined tafte. He pretends the original Greek is now at Petersburgh, among the papers of the late M. Offur, re cently dead; the learned would be glad |
