1797+] 
~a fupplementary lift of the novelifts 
whofe notices are omitted in the catalogue, 
with copious extraéis from their writ- 
ASS 
The Count might have made his col- 
leé&tion much more extenfive, if he had 
not impofed it on himfelf as a law, to 
leave out every thing inconfiitent with 
the urbanity of modern manners, and 
the morality of his own character. 
ITINERARIES. 
Inthis clafs of writing, the Viaggio 
fur Reno e né fuoi contorm, by the Avbé 
BerToLa, Claims fome notice. (At 
Rimini, by Albertini, 181 pages, in 8vo. 
1795.) It confifts of forty-fix epiftles, and 
“is embellifhed with a chart of the courfe 
of the Rhine, as far as Duffeldorf, and with 
feven views of the country contiguous. 
The amateurs of poetical defcriptions 
(bien bourfoufiées) plentifully eked out, 
will here meet with a fumcient quantum 
of that fort of entertamment. The profe 
is every now and then interlined with 
little ftanzas, as well as with geological 
and mineralogical obfervations; fuch, 
however, as we conceive will neither fuit 
the tafte of the Vuleanitts, nor of the 
Neptunifts. A tranflation has been made 
into German of this pitturefque voyage 
to Manheim, of which it may be pre- 
dicated, that the copy outttrips the ori- 
ginal. 
SYSTEMS OF LEGISLATION. 
' Two publications have appeared on 
this fubje€t, treating of the fuperior ad- 
vantages which a Monarchy poffeffes 
over the Republican form of Govern. 
ment. Qne of thefe 1s by the canon 
MARTORELLI, and is intitled: Dela 
Monarchia, Trattato filofofico poiiico, im cur 
fi dimonfira, ch'efia e la forma di governo 
la pin uiile all umana Siceta. (At Rome, 
by Giunchi, in 4to.) The other is by 
Amati, a tawyer of Ferrara, and 1s 
intitled, De Origine && Natura Politicarum 
‘Societarum. (63 pages in 4to. 1795.) 
POETRY AND THE BELLES LETTRES. 
Thefe branches of literature, no longer 
produce in Italy fuch rich fruits as for- 
merly: not but that numberlefs poeti- 
eal effufions are every day ufhered into 
the world, under the titles of Rime, 
| Canzoni, Sonett1, Dittirambi, and Eglogbe, 
written by Arcadians and Non-Arca- 
dians; but what patience would fuffice 
to enumerate even the names of thefe 
ephemeral verfifiers! Back aNnTi has 
«publithed at Mantua his Cavzonrere ; 
the chevalier GORGALLO, at Naples, 
his Verfi (at the royal prefs, 307 pages 
in 8vo.) Che Abbé Crico, who wrote 
formerly his Pafforali and Pz/catori, has 
Prefent State of Literature in Htaly. 189 
lately fent abroad fome pieces, intitled, 
Egloghe rufticali (at Vrevifo) ; and, laftly, 
Fr. Gianni, his Poefic, at Pavia. None 
of thefe produétions rife above the ftan- 
dard of mediocrity. Poetry is, in Italy, 
for many perfons, fo to fpeak, an affair of 
health, and is reforted to for an occupa- 
tion of the mind, like any other natural 
exercife of the body. 
This is well known to have been the 
cafe with the celebrated Metaflufio Pa- 
foeroni, in confiderable eftimation for fome 
years paft, for his poem of Cicerone, pub- 
lifhed at Milan, in 1794. (by Agnelli) 
the ninth volume of his Rie (in 8vo.) 
and although he is now a Nonagenaire, 
is about to entertain the Italian public 
with more pieces of the fame kind, 
Since the appearance of Meropé, by 
MaFret, the works of the Italians rela- 
tive to the DRAMA, are, for the moft 
part, circumfcribed within the narrow 
circle of the ancient Greek tragedy. 
Little account is now made of the Tra- 
gedia Cittadenifca, although the academy 
of Padua made it the fubje&t of a prize 
in 17389, and the Abbé MenEGHELLI 
took great pains to panegyrize this kind 
of writing, in his D:fertatione Sopra la 
Tragedia Cittadenifca (1795). 
Rossi’s_ performance, intitled, De/ 
moderna Teatro com co Italiano, e del fuo 
Reftauratore C. Goldoni (at Baflano, by 
Remondini, vol. i.) is not devoid of 
merit ; we are indebted for its publica- 
tion to the Adunanze degh Arcade. The 
Abbé DaLmisTRo js publifhing a com- 
plete edition of the works of Count 
Gafpar Gozzi (Opere in Verfi e in Profa 
del Conte G. Gozzi). Atthe end of lat 
year, eight volumes of this work had 
been printed (at Venice, by Palefe, each | 
volume containing about 400 pages, in 
8vo.) Inthe firft volume, we have the 
life of Gozzi, by Pindemonte ; then fol- 
low the tranflation of Horace’s fatires, 
and other fugitive pieces. The volumes iit. 
and vi. contain a feries of effays, under the 
name of Offervatore Veneto, {omewhat in 
the manner of Addifon’s Spectator. The 
7th volume contains an allegoric ro- 
mance, called, I/ Mondo Morale, ‘The 
8th as filled with tranflations from 
fragments of Chry/ojtom, Libanius, Cebes, 
&c. The volumes unpublifhed are to 
contain the tranflation of Longinus. 
Many of the traéts of this writer (very 
popular among the Venetians) were 
grown out of print; the cheap price, 
however, of this new edition, will ren= 
der its acquifition eafy to all. 
| To be concluded in our next. | 
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