394 PIETRO GIANNONE. 



offered to promote him to the honourable poll of a 

 confultore onorario of the republic, with the alTurance 

 that he fhould be put in poffeffion of the office as foon 

 as ever it was vacant ; in the mean time he might en- 

 joy the place of profelTor of the pandects at Padua. 

 But he honeftly acknowledged that he was not capable 

 of expounding the pandecls in the latin language con- 

 formably to the ufages of that univerhty ; and there- 

 fore declined the profefforlhip. All this while his 

 enemies were doing their utmoft to render him fuf- 

 pecled of the government, and to complete his ruin. 

 Not fucceeding in doing him mifchief in regard tp 

 what he advances in his hiftory concerning the con- 

 tended dominion of the Adriatic, as he had prevented 

 them in their attempts by an apology, they brought a 

 charge againft him to the inquifitors of Hate, of hatching, 

 in conjunction with the minifters of France and Spain, 

 whom he frequently vilited, fome plots againft the ftate. 

 It was determined to banifh him the republic. He was 

 accordingly feized by the ferjeants in the night of the 

 513d of September, 1735, and carried in a boat to the 

 borders of Ferrara. At this place, for fear of the papal 

 fpies, he took upon him the name of Antonio Final do, 

 and repaired to Modena ; where he ftaid about fix weeks, 

 till his fon John brought him his papers, and fome 

 contributions from his friends at Venice. Hereupon 

 they travelled with great circumfpeclion, through Lom- 

 bardy, to Milan and Turin. Unable to procure a 

 livelihood in thefe cities, they fteered their courfe for 

 Geneva ; where they arrived the 5th of December, 

 1735. His reputation here had gained him many 

 friends ; the moft remarkable of whom were doctor 



Turretin, 



