Not. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



367 



matic poem ? I should also be obliged if you 

 could give me a short notice of the author. R. J. 



["The Deformed" is entitled a "Dramatic Poem." The 

 writer of the Preface states that " this volume of poems 

 ■was a last legacy from a beloved daughter, who, on her 

 <leath-bed, asked me to look over her papers, and publish 

 what was thought worthy of being preserved. She began 

 to write at a very early age, and several of her smaller 

 pieces were composed before she was fifteen. When 

 scarcely two-and-twenty she had completed all that are 

 now collected together."] 



New Testament, Italian and French. — I have 

 for some time had in my possession a copy of the 

 New Testament in Italian and French, which I 

 suspect to be of considerable rarity, and concern- 

 ing which I have not been able to meet with any 

 account. The title is, — 



" Del Nuovo Testamento di Jesu Christo Nostro Sig- 

 nore. Is uova e fedel traduttioue dal testo Greco in lingua 

 volgare Italiana," &c. 



The Italian vei'sion is by Giovan Luigi Pas- 

 chale, and is said to be — 



" Stampata di nuovo in compagnia d' un' altra buona tra- 

 duttione in lingua Francese : et amendue partite per ver- 

 setti." 



The title-page shows it was printed in 1555, but 

 without mention of place. Can you or any of your 

 learned readers give me any information about 

 Paschale, and of tlae author of the French version ; 

 also as to the place where printed, and of the rarity 

 of this volume ? Bibliophile. 



Aberdeen. 



[We have submitted our correspondent's Query to 

 George Offor, Esq , who has kindly forwarded the follow- 

 ing reply : — " Italy was furnished with the Bible in its 

 vernacular tongue much earlier tlian most of the European 

 rations. The first edition was 1471. In 1530 the New 

 Testament was published separately — a very superior 

 translation by Bruccioli, printed at Venice by the cele- 

 brated Giunti. In 1555, Crespini of Geneva published a 

 beautiful pocket edition of the Italian Testament, and in 

 the same j-ear an elegant edition, very small, was printed 

 ♦ In Lione, per Giovanni de Torney et Guillelmo Garcis.' 

 Excepting the Bible of 1471, fine copies of all these are in 

 my collection of Bibles. I have two perfect and good 

 copies of the Italian and French New Testament, a thick 

 small 8vo., 1555, 'per Giovan Luigi Paschale.' After the 

 title and list of books is an address to the Christian reader 

 of eleven pages, and two pages of the exhortation to the 

 study of the Holy Scriptures. At the end a table of the 

 principal things contained in the New Testament, nine- 

 teen pages. I have no doubt of its being a Genevan book, 

 but can find no account of G. L. Paschale. I am not at all 

 aware of its value, but most probably it is a rare book."] 



Coincidences. — In the article entitled " Jeu de 

 Mots," at p. 159. of Anecdotes, by J. Petit An- 

 drews, there occur these words, from a supplica- 

 tory letter addressed to King James, by Lord 

 Bacon : 



" Help me, &c., .... that I, who have been born to a 

 hag [Query, should it not be who have borne a bag?'\. be 

 not now, in my age, forced in elfect to bear a loallet. Nor 



No. 315.] 



that I, who desire to live to study, may be driven to study 

 to live." 



May not Dr. Johnson have had this passage in 

 his mind when he wrote the lines in his Prologue 

 at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, in 1747 ? — 



" The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. 

 For we that live to please must please to live." 



Query, where is Lord Bacon's letter to be 

 found in extenso ? Balliolensis. 



[The passage occurs in Lord Bacon's paper, entitled 

 " Memorial of A(;cess," written in Greek, soon after his 

 access to King James I., which had been promised him 

 in a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham, from New- 

 market, Nov. 13, 1622. See it, in extenso, in Dr. Birch's 

 edition of Bacon's Letters, Speeches, &c., edit. 1763, p. 321., 

 where the passage reads, " I would live to study, and not 

 study to live ; yet I am prepared for date obolum Belli- 

 sario; and I that have borne a bag can bear a wallet."] 



Latin Poet quoted by Burke. — In Mr. Burke's 

 famous speech on the East India Bill, the follow- 

 ing lines from " a poet of antiquity " are applied 

 to Mr. Fox : 



"Indole pro! quanta juvenis, quantumque daturas 

 Ausoniae populis ventura in secula civem ! 

 Ille, super Gangen, super exauditus et Indos, 

 Implebit terras voce, et furialia bella 

 Fulmine compescet linguae." 



Can any one inform me which "poet of an- 

 tiquity " was the author of them ? Possibly 

 Silius Italicus, but I have not his works to verify 

 the suspicion; and it is rather unparliamentary 

 for an orator to quote from a writer so little read. 

 The lines are so Virgilian in their tone and ca- 

 dence, that it is difficult not to fancy them from 

 the sixth book of the JEneid. A. L. 



[The passage occurs in Silius Italicus, Punicorum, 

 lib. viii. 406.] 



SERVETUS' " CURISTIANISMI RESTITUTIO." 



(Vol.xii., pp. 165. 249.) 



In looking over " N. & Q." for the last month, 

 I observe some inquiries And remarks in relation 

 to the Ckristianismi Restitutio of Michael Ser- 

 vetus. In the library of his late Royal Highness 

 the Duke of Sussex, there was a MS. copy of 

 this work on 368 leaves 4to., obtained by me for 

 H. R. H. from the celebrated Meerman Col- 

 lection, and its contents consisted of, 1. "De 

 Trinitate Divina," lib. vii. ; 2. " De Fide et Jus- 

 titia Regni Christi," lib. iii. ; 3. " De Regenera- 

 tione Superna, et de Regno An ti- Christi," lib. iv. ; 

 4, " Epistola XXX. ad Jo. Calvinum, Gebenensium 

 Concionatorem ; " 5. " Signa Ix. Regni Anti- 

 Christi ; " 6. De Mysterio Trinitatis et Veturum 

 Disciplina, ad Phil. Melancthonem, et ejus Col- 

 legas, Apologia." 



