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San Carlo Borromeo, had for his device the galaxia or milky- way 

 — for his motto, f Monstrat iter' — and for his academical name, 

 Infammato. Others were denominated II quielo, II patiente, 

 L'lnviato, L'Offuscato, II pronto, &c. ; and a very handsome 

 engraving, with a long and learned dissertation, is devoted to 

 each.* This author gives an outline of one of the above-men- 

 tioned academies of Pavia — the ' Cavallieri del Sole.' The 

 members meet every Monday and Thursday. They appoint, 

 for the ensuing two months, a president or conservatore. 

 They keep in constant pay a riding-master, a fencing-master, 

 and professors skilled in every sort of vocal and instrumental 

 music. They engage to cultivate all Christian virtues, attend 

 mass every morning, and receive the holy sacrament. When- 

 ever any person of distinction arrives or passes through Pavia, 

 all the academicians go forth to meet him, and join him at 

 such a distance from the city as may be proportionate to the 

 rank he bears. All quarrels, controversies, and complaints, 

 are sedulously adjusted by the society. Six times in the year 

 they repair to the Church of St. Epiphany, where solemn 

 music is performed in their presence. By these means (adds 

 our author) all controversies are at an end ; sedition is un- 

 known ; idleness, the source of all crime, is banished ; revenge 

 never enters the thoughts ; the thirst after sordid gain is 

 moderated ; and every breast is inspired with a zeal to live 

 usefully and honourably, t 



"It would be improper to close this brief notice of the 

 academies of Italy without mentioning that of La Crusca, 

 founded a.d. 1582, at Florence. In the early editions of 

 their justly celebrated Vocabolario (the first of which appeared 



* Id several cases the real family name has been actually lost, and in others it 

 is doubtful whether the name that has descended to us be the academical or the 

 family name. 



♦ " Ragionameuto di Luca Contile sopra le proprieta delle Imprese con le parti 

 colari degli academict Affidati e con le interpretation! et chroniche," &c, fol. 

 Pavia, 1674. 



