598 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



inevitable absence amongst us of other sensible footprints left by the 

 eminent persons of whom I shall speak, I hope the trifling objects I 

 shall produce may serve as lively mementos of their former existence, 

 and of the manner of men they were. Over those worn stairways 

 the footsteps of many of England's worthies have imquestionably 

 passed. So on these leaves, these pages, the hands of several of them 

 have undoubtedly been pressed. If there is any pleasant glamour 

 in the one thought, there must be a certain degree of it in the other. 

 My collection also, such as it is, will incidentally furnish forth illus- 

 trations of that part of the complex English life which has for its 

 sphere the two ancient universities of the kingdom. 



My relics, as before, consist (1) of books, once owned or handled 

 by eminent men ; or (2) of notes and other MS. fragments in the 

 handwriting of eminent men. I begin with my Oxford relics ; and 

 first I show a volume once belonging to the Library of Christ Church. 

 It is a folio entitled Italia Illustrata, published in 1602 at Frankfort, 

 by Andreas Cambierius, and dedicated to Andreas Schottus, who, 

 Cambierius tells us, collected the several treatises of which the 

 volume consists at a great expense, acting at the same time as editor 

 and reviser, and removing many blemishes from the whole. It is a 

 cyclopaedia of Italian geography and antiquities ; a kind of Murray 

 for stay-at-home travellers. Twenty-eight pieces are presented to the 

 reader, each giving an account of the history and archaeology of a 

 particular locality. The whole is in excellent Latin. The following 

 are the names of some of the writers : M. Antonius Sabellicus, 

 J. Chrysostom Zanchius, Torellus Sarayna, Gaudentius, Merula, 

 Bonaventura CastillionEeus, Paulus Jovius, Bernaidus Saccus, Jacobus 

 Bracelius, Andreas Magnotius, Csesar Orlandius, Antonius Massa, 

 Petrus Cursius, Antonius-Sanfelicius, Ubertus Folieta, Scipio Mazella, 

 Joan. Franciscus Lombardus, Ambrosius Leo, Gabriel Barrius, 

 Johannes Juvenis, Clar. Marius Aretius, Antonius Philotheus, Jo. 

 Quinctinus Hednus. By these, most of whom, except Paulus Jovius, 

 have become obscure to us, if not to Italians, we have pleasantly- 

 written, elaborate accounts of Venice, Aquileia, Yerona, Genoa, 

 Naples, Nola, Tarentum, Sicily, Malta, &c. For a minute account 

 of Rome itself, the reader is referred to other works. Torellus 

 Sarayna gives his account of "Verona in the form of a dialogue, after 

 the manner of Cicero, between himself and Jacobus Villafranea. 

 He also gives a large collection of ancient Latin, inscriptions found 



