SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER 



'■ TO THE FIFTY-FIRST VOLUME of the 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE; 



No. 356.] 



JULY 31, 1821. 



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Selections from the chief Publications of the Half-year. 



RECOLLECTIONS 



OP A 



©laSSttal ^out 



THROUGH VARIOUS PARTS OF 



GREECE, TURKEY, & ITALY, 



MADE IN 



THE YEARS 1818 AND 1819, 



BY 



PETER EDMUND LAURENT. 



With coloured plates, 4to. price f 1 I8s. boards. 



[Mr. Laurent left Oxford in 1818, in com- 

 pany with two members of the Univer- 

 sity. They passed over the Alps, by the 

 Mount Cenis road, crossing Piedmont 

 and the fertile valley of Lombardy, 

 through the towns of Turin, Milan, 

 Mantua, Verona, Viceuza, and Venice. 

 From the last place they proceeded to 

 Trieste, where, after making an excur- 

 sion to the ruins of Pola, they embarked 

 for Constantinople. In the course of the 

 voyage they visited the Trojan plain, 

 and the probable site of lUium. Dread- 

 ing to face the plague, which then raged 

 in the northern provinces of Greece, 

 they re-embarked at Constantinople for 

 Athens ; thence passed into the Pelo- 

 ponnesus ; saw the remains of Corinth, 

 Sicyon,Nemea, Argos, Mantinea, Sparta, 

 Messene, Phigalia, Olympia, Patrae, &c. 

 &c. At Patrae, our travellers embarked 

 for the Ionian Islands, thence passed to 

 Italy, touched at Otranto, Brudisi, and 

 Barletta, and returned homeward through 

 Naples, Rome, and Florence. The fol- 

 lowing interesting passages will convey 

 accurate notions of the elegance of his 

 style] 



MURDER OF WINCKEL.MANN. 



IT was at Trieste tliat Wiuckelmann 

 was assassinated by a villain named 

 Arcangeli. This man had been a cook 

 in the nouse of the Count Cafaldo, at 

 Vienna, and had been condemned to 

 death for several crimes, but had re- 

 ceived his pardon ; he met his victim 

 on the road from Vienna to Rome, and 

 gained his confidence by affecting to 

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have a great love for the fine arts. 

 Wiuckelmann was occupied in a room 

 of his inn, writing some notes for a new 

 edition of his Histoni of Art, when 

 Arcangeli interrupted him by asking 

 him to see some medals; haidly had 

 the antiquary opened the trunk whicli 

 contained them, when his murderer 

 threw on his ueck a running knot, and 

 endeavoured to strangle him ; not be- 

 ing able to succeed in his purpose, the 

 sanguinary villain pieiced him in 

 several places with a knife ; he was 

 immediately seized and executed for 

 his crime ; but his punishment did not 

 repair the loss which literature experi- 

 enced by the death of Wiuckelmann. 

 The venerable antiquary lived suffici- 

 ently long to receive the spiritual con- 

 solations of his church, and to dictate 

 his will, by wliich he named Cardinal 

 Albani his sole legatee. 



Wiuckelmann was the son of an ob- 

 scure tradesman of Stendal, in Bran- 

 denburg : by indefatigable exertions 

 he raised himself to a most conspicuous 

 rank in the study of antiquity ; he was 

 member of nearly all the literary soci- 

 eties in Europe, and his name will be 

 ever dear to artists. 



The account of Pola furnishes us 

 with an interesting anecdote of Ariosto. 



ARIOSTO. 



I have often been surprised to find 

 the name of Orlando or Rolando, so 

 frequently attaclied to ruins in Italy 

 and the neighbouring coimtries ; Cas- 

 tello di Orlando is a name given near 

 Naples and in Magna Grecia, to almost 

 every one of the towers which, in 

 former times, served as fastnesses for 

 those bands of robbers which ravaged 

 the country, and bade defiance even to 

 Spanish desjwlism. This may be ac- 

 counted for by the great diffusion of 

 Ariosto's poem, the nature and variety 

 of which render it, perhaps, more at- 

 tractive than any other to the lower 

 orders. Of this it is well known the 

 poet hatl a convincing proof: falling, 

 during a ramble over the Appenines, 

 among a band of robbers, they were on 

 the point of taking from him his purse, 

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