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pieces, (crowns.) I also employed the most cele- 

 brated draughtsmen, (delineator es,) L. Bennini a 

 Florentine, and C. Swint of Frankfort, who super- 

 intended my engravings ; and at Florence, the Duke 

 of Tuscany's famous painter, J. Ligoti, to delineate 

 the birds in the most exquisite manner possible. 

 Finally, I have "wood-cutters, (sculptor es,) and es- 

 pecially the illustrious C. Corialanus of Nuremberg, 

 and his nephew, who carved them so beautifully, that 

 they appeared not to be represented in wood, but 

 in brass."* 



In these words Aldrovandi speaks in very specific 

 terms of his travels ; and of these it would be 

 interesting to have a more particular account, and 

 to trace the impressions made upon his ardeni 

 mind by the novelties they brought under his 

 view. We have already seen his native energy 

 displayed during his short sojourn at Rome, which 

 he signalized by his treatise on ancient statuary ; 

 and possibly a minute examination of his writings 

 would exhibit other traces of his footsteps. Among 

 the notices of his works, we find that in Jordanus, 

 there is " a letter of our author, in which he treats of 

 Egyptian Buildings?\ How he came to dilate on 

 this subject we have been unable to discover, and 

 the circumstance scarcely supplies ground for the 

 conjecture that he visited the Country of the Pyra- 

 mids, although his writings prove he was intimately 



* Opera, t. i. Praefatio. 

 t Bibl. Anat. ii, 747, 



