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fhall fubjoin an old in fc option found engraven on a 

 ftone : 



Balnea, vina, venus, confervant corpora noftra ; 

 Corrumpunt vitam, balnea, vina, venus. 

 . Philoftratus fays : 



Tripa; avSpMTrwv roc fccthocv-icc. 

 .Erafmus, out of Lucian : 



Senecla hominum balnea calida. 



THE FAMOUS HISTORIAN", 

 PIETE.0 G I ANN ONE* 



. PlETRO GIANNONE was born in the year-. 

 1676, at Ifchiteila, lituated in Capitanata, a province 

 of Naples. In. his 18th year he repaired to Naples, to 

 complete the courfe of his ftudies. The progrefs he 

 made in civil law under Bomenico Anlifio, and the 

 penetrating eye he difcovered on other important fub- 

 jects, procured him accefs to Santano Argento, after- 

 wards prelident of the royal council, in whofe houfe, 

 as in an academy, the men of the greater! abilities in 

 the kingdom were wont to affembie. Here he con- 

 ceived the deiign of writing a hiftory of the kingdom 

 of Naples ; wherein he likewife purpofed to treat of 

 its laws and police. As he only worked at it in fuch 

 hours of leifure as the.profeffion of an advocate allowed 

 him, it was twenty years before he finiflied the work. 



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