ee. 
326 hints to the learned. July 4. 
Much has been already done for the age of Pe-. 
trarcha ; and in the second period, the interesting. 
notes which accompany the letters of the chancellor 
de. ’Hopital, publifhed in the year 1779, have given 
a very pleasing and satisfactory view of the staté of’ 
literature in Europe, stoking the age of that eminent 
person. 
It remains to do justice to the age of Peiresc ; a- 
list of some of whose learned correspondents have 
been formerly exhibited in this miscellany/ | / 
Peiresc contributed, by his correspondence, his me- 
morials, and his purse, to almost all the great pub-' 
Itcations and discoveries of his time; though he had 
never leisure to publifh any of his own excellent 
works, except a4 tract concerning an ancient Tripod, 
discovered at Frejus. 
_ In the library of cardinal Alexander Albani at 
Rome, there is a collection of letters from Peirese to 
the cavalier Pozzo, which are well worthy of being 
communicated to the learned world ; and would, it is 
believed, be generously communicated to any respec- 
table and learned person, who would undertake to 
publith them, as'a specimen of the erudition of the 
noble and excellent author. 
This might lead to the publication, im numbers, or 
volumes, of the great treasure of literature, in the 
hands of the abbé de St Leger, formerly described in 
this miscellany ; of various other works of Peiresc, 
which are in the hands of M. de Noyer, his father 
M. de St Vincent, in the library of Carpentras,: 
founded by Mr Inquimbert, bifhop of that diocese, 
er in the hands of the abbé de St Leger, as prepared: 
