M. Aurelius Severi/tus.mth fome Papers relating to a fe- 
eond part Severw us intended to make de recondita Ab^ 
fcejfimm Natura. He fpoke to me of another Book, 
he did not know whether it had been printed or 
no. '^Here is the Title r II Medico ai rimrfo^ e dijin- 
ga^m d'al Medicar cmdo^ del A. Severwo. If any 
Bookfeller would undertake a new Edition of Semri- 
nus his Works, I do not queftion but Stgnior Gamieri 
would oblige the publick with thefe. 
I faw there alfo FGian7tmJi aJefuit,who has written 
Vifcatoria Nantica, His Bellicorum Lib, xii. juft 
came out, and now in another Poem he is going to 
defcribe the Art of War by Seai^^ 
I did not ftay long enough at Ptfa to be acquainted 
with the /^>^;^<?/ of that Academy, Bellini is now 
Vrofejfor emeritus^ and Phyfician to the Grand Duke. 
J3e/ P^/?^ is Pbyfician to the Cardinal d.e MedJck. Be- 
fides the Anatcmift Zambecary^ they fpoke to; me with 
great encomium of Signior Fafchajio Gianeti^ ProfefTor 
of Natural Pbilo(ophy. I was feveral times at Flo- 
rerjce with Signior Antokio Magliabechi 3 but Signior 
Viviani I did not fee. He is very old. I fend you a 
Book of F. Grandi.SolutioGeometrica Proble/^ratam Vivi- 
aneorum in 4 ^ . This K Grandi is now at Eom^ in 
the Convent of San Gregorio de VP.Camddolenfi. 
I met at Genoua an old acquaintance of mind, Mon- 
fieur Defnoms a French man. He is Leftor of Anat07ny 
there, and Chief Surgeon to the great Hofpital. I was 
very curious to fee fome of his preparations; and I 
mull confefs, I did wonder when he ftiewM me not 
only all the Mufcles, with the diftribution of the 
Nerves and B/ood-veJels^ but even the hterna Vifcera^ 
fo finely done in Wax of the Natural Colour, that I 
could hardly dirdnguifli it from a Corps newly in- 
balm'd' This has coft him a great deal ot time and 
money. If there was hall' a dozen of thefe Wax Carv 
ivgs^ in leveral views- to (hew at anytime theftrufture 
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