276 Italian hterature. Fune 27. 
JAAN ACCOUNT OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCADIA AT ROME, WITH A 
SKETCH OF THE STATE OF LITERATURE IN ITALY FOR THESE 
LAST THREE CENTURIES. By ABBE TOURNER, TEACHER OF 
LANGUAGES, EDINBURGH, AUTHOR OF THE ANECDOTES OF POPE 
GANGANELLI, 'c. 
Continued from p. 233. 
Ow the sth of October, in the year 1690, in the reign 
of pope Alexander vil. when only fourteen of these 
literary friends had met on a green belonging to the 
garden of the convent of San Pietro in Montorio, on 
the Famculum, Crescimbeni imparted to them what 
he had been devising with Leonio. They were all 
pleased with the idea, and prompted by joy and emo- 
tion, they unanimously broke out with, ‘ E viva /’.and 
saluted mutually one another as 4rcadians. To exe- 
cute what they thought necefsary for laying the foun- 
dations of that infant academy, they chose fourteen 
pastoral names; and having drawn them by chance, 
each of them afsumed the name that fell to his lot. 
The following are the names of the fourteen founders 
of Arcadia, in the order in which they got their pas- 
toral names : “‘ The cavalier Paolo Coardi from Tu- 
rin, was called Elpino ; the abbé Giuseppe Paolucci 
from Spello, 4/e/si ; Vincenzo Leonio, from Spoleti, 
‘Uranio; Silvio Stampiglia from Civita Lavinia, 
Palemone ; Gian Vincenzo Gravma from Cosento, 
Opico ; Gian Mario Crescimbeni from Macerata, A/- 
festbeo ; the advocate Gian Batista Felice Zappi, 
Tirst ; the abbé Charles Thomas Maillard de Tour- 
