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cine; and having visited the cities of Italy, he 

 finally settled at Rome, ^vhere, according to Dr. 

 Paul Freher of Nuremberg, he long practised the 

 healing art with great celebrity, and taught the 

 science of medicine in its University with much 

 success, magnum aiiditorum coiicursu^K His va- 

 ried talents, and peculiar taste for Natural History, 

 obtained for him the friendship of Cardinal Cervini, 

 who procured for him the situation of Physician to 

 Pope Julius III. Salviani selected the class of 

 fishes as the chief object of his researches, and 

 used every effort to collect such as he could pro- 

 cure in Italy, while he extended the range of 

 his knowledge by obtaining, with the help of his 

 protector, accurate drawings of those which were 

 known in Greece, France, Germany, and Britain. 

 Many notices of his success in these endeavours 

 will be found in the folloAving pages. He esta- 

 blished in his own dwelling a regular printing 

 establishment, whence issued his lesser treatises, 

 and where he corrected his great work, entitled 

 Aquatilium Animalium Historia. The date of 

 this elegant volume, on the frontispiece, is 1554, 

 although the impression was not completed till the 

 year 1558. The author had first dedicated his 

 work to his benefactor Cardinal Cervini ; but this 

 prelate, one of the presidents of the Council of 

 Trent, having become Pope, under the title of 

 Marcellus II., and having died of apoplexy twenty- 



* See Theatnim Virorum Eiaiditione Singulari Clarorum, 

 p. 1265, Noremb. 1688, 



