234 
body; M. Amielh, M. Germain, M. 
Nanteuil, sen. M. Thibaudier, M. Perrin, 
director, and agent general; M. Ba- 
chelier, secretary. 
The Professors and Officers are :— 
-Godefroy; Thierry, architect; Defraisne; 
Robineau, inspectonof the students. 
In Paris at present there are, one hun- 
dred and seventy-four architects, who are 
all registered, of which the following are 
the principal. 
_  Augat, Bouchu, Chabouillé, Cointe- 
‘veau, (professor of rural architecture) ; 
Couad, (inspector of buildings in the 
department of the Seine); Disarnod, 
(author of Salubrious and Economical 
Hearths, &c.) Desjardins, Detournelle, 
(editor of Grands Jeus d’ Architecture) ; 
Gabriel, Galimard, Gerard, Heurtot, 
‘Lefevre, Nepveu, Petch, Peri, Petit, 
Radel, Pretrelle, Renard, Tron; Viel, the 
-elder; Viltard. 
_ Inspectors of Buildings.—Beranger, 
Beudot, Gouel, Lemercur, Picquenot; 
‘Riboulle, jun. 
Painters are in number, two hundred 
and twelve, and are also registered; the 
most noted as artists are, Messrs. Ame- 
lot, Bacler-d’Albe, Beaunier, Belur, 
_Berthelemy, Bonnemaison, Rauchet, 
Callot, Camus, Cassas, Cazanora, Cour- 
teille, Danloux, who has been in Lon- 
don; David, M. Davin-Mirvault, De- 
bret, Delafoutaine, Demachy, Duplessy 
’ Bertaux, (celebrated for battle-pieces ;) 
aa Biles «ou 
Memoirs of John Pica, Prince of Mirandola. (Oct.1, 
Fontaine, Frayer, Gauthorot, Girard, 
Girodot, Granger, jun, Gros, Guerin, 
Haingre, Hennequin; Isabey, small ca- 
binet pictures and miniatures ; Lagrinée, 
jun, Landon, Langlois de Lezanne, Le- 
duc, Leduc, Lejeune, Lemire, Marchats, 
Meynier, M. Mongez, Monsieau, Mo- 
reau, jun, Pagou, jun. Perrier, Perrin, 
Peyron, Peytavin, sen, Prudon, Re- 
douté,Reynault, Robert, Robert-Lefevre, 
‘Rolland, Sambat, Sauvage, Senave, 
Sevehach dit Fontaine, Tauzet, Van- 
gorp, Vernet, Vien, senior, 
The sculptors, who are registered, are 
to the number of sixty-eight; but the 
most celebrated ard, Messrs. Auger, 
Beauvalet, Bocquet, S. Simon, Bozet, 
se. Bridem, father and son; Cartellier, 
Chaudit, Coenon, Dijoux, Delaistre, 
Dumont, Duret, Espercieux, Foucou, 
Gerard, Geraud, Gois, father and son; 
Houdon, Lecomte, Lesueur, Lucas, Mas- 
son, Monnot, Pagout (father,) Petitot, 
Ramey, Roland, Segishert, Suzanne. 
These are among some of the principal 
facts that I have been able to obtain, re- 
lative to the present state of the fine arts, 
at Paris, which I beg leave to conclude 
with a wish, that every artist, I trust, will 
join, with me in, which is, that a benefi- 
cial and lasting peace may soon unite the 
kindred arts of the rival countries, to the 
mutual benefit of each, Your’s, &c. 
Sept. 8, 1808. James Ermrs. 
College Hill, Queen-strest, 
pon ni 2 RR A RN ey 
MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
aAccouny of the LIFE and WRITINGS of 
JOHN PICA, PRINCE Of ‘MIRANDOLA, 
with some REMARKS On the STUDIES 
of the acy. in which he lived. 
ps of Mhirandola, surnamed the 
Phenix, is one of those authors 
who are placed insthe first rank of illus- 
trious scholars, while 
utterly forgotten, and scarcely to be met 
with, except in the old libraries of some 
of our cathedrals. Tbe testimonies of 
co-tempotary scholars, the friendship and 
admiration of some of the brightest or- 
naments of that ave have secured to his 
name such a celebrity, that no one who 
affects the least familiarity with the li- 
terary history of the fifteenth century is 
unacquainted with it; and yet it may be 
questioned whether any of his works 
have found a reader for this Jast century, 
except such as curiosity may have led to 
a partial perusalof them, ‘The folowing 
— 
their works are. 
account, collected from such materials ag. , 
are left by his cotemporaries, may not be 
disagreeable tu your readers, as affording 
a striking instance of the taste of that age 
in the uses which were made of learning 
and abilities, 
It is an idea which is perhaps too rea- 
dily received, that the metaphysicians 
and schoolinen, whose speculations this 
aye has wisely abandoned, were men 
wholly destitute of sense, learning, and 
talents. Whoever will examine their 
works, will be convinced that many of 
them were men of most extraordinary 
erudition,and of great, though misapplied, 
ingenuity. . ‘The time will very probably 
arrive, when some of the favourite pur- 
suits of the present age may be 
viewed inthe same light, and receive the. 
samé sentence from posterity, as we pass . 
upon the vain and unprofitable labours 
of the schoolmen of the fifteenth “and 
sixteenth 
