268 
Thelyphthora ;” both which traéts were 
written by Mr. John Palmer, of Mac- 
clesfield; of whom there is a biographi- 
.¢al account in the Theologita] Repofi- 
° 
tory, vol. vi. p. 217—224. 
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For the Monihly Magazine. 
PRESENT STATE. OF LITERATURE 
DN EAL 
| Goncluded from our laft. | 
ANTIQUITIES. 
HE 
Italians of the prefenr day are moft 
€Mulous to excel, and which is alfo the 
mof fought after, and reforted to, by 
the literati of other European nations, is 
Archelogy, and the explanation of the 
ancient monuments of the arts. 
The Patni Ercolanef, the firft edi- 
tion of which was but an indifferent one, 
and only in {mall fclio, are now reprint- 
ing at’-Naples, in the fame fize and ftyle 
of magnificence, as the Avntichita d’ Er- 
cclano. A lets fumptuous edition is alfo 
now prepa ing at Leipliic. 
Another work of Philodemus, on Rhe- 
for’c, unrolled in the fame manner as the 
firft, on mufic, is now in the prefs; but 
the ‘procefs of unrolling thefe papers, 
has been, for fome time, difcontinued. 
The pubtication of the engravings of 
the fecond Ham1iiToNTIAwN Collection of 
antique vafes, under the direétion of 
TIsCHBEIN, is going. forward with 
much greater activity. Collection of En- 
gravings,. from aniient Vafes, of Greck 
Workranfoip. in the joffegion of Sir W. 
Hamilton, publifbed by Tifcobein (at Na- 
ples, in folio, large fize). The fecond 
volume appeared in 1795, and the third, 
at the beginning of laft year. Each vo- 
lume contains 60 cuts, with their expla- 
nations, the fidelity vf the defigns being 
above all cenfure. TiscHBEIN has fcru- 
puloufiy refrained from that defire of 
embeliifhing, which has fpoiled a num- 
ber of works of this kind, without ex- 
cepting that of d’Hancarville. ‘The ex- 
planations in Englifh and French, on two 
columns, at leaft, for the two firft vo- 
lumes, have been made by the chevalier 
Itauinsxi, the Rufhan Chargé d’Af- 
fatres, at Naples, a fkilful antiquarian, 
and the friend of fr W. HAMILTON. 
The third volume was printed without 
explanations, in confequence of. the che- 
valier ITALINSKI’s ‘abfence from Na- 
ples; it is underftcod, however, that 
thefe are to follow, ina feparate work. 
The indefatigable VisconTI is al- 
-ways colleGiing and publifhing. - The 
di 
Ttalian Literature. 
walk of literature in which the . Corrections and additions. 
‘Aprit, 
fixth volume of the Mufeum Pio-clementi- 
num will {peedily appear, and will con- 
tain bas-reliefs, like the fourth. 
profits, however, of this work, not be- 
ing fuificient to cover the charges, not- 
withftanding the advances of the apof- 
tolic chamber in its aid, as many pur- 
chafers buy the engravings only, without 
the text, Vifconti has thought fit to pro- 
vide a {mall number of feleét copies, of 
the entire colle¢iion, in 4to.; and he 
whl, no doubt, enrich this edition with 
The two fa- 
mous infcriptions, relative to Regilla, 
wife of Herodes Atticus, at prefent at the 
villa Pulciana, and in poffeffion of prince 
Marc Anthony Borghefe, have-found, in 
Vifconti, a commentator, equally learned 
and ingenious; the commentary, how- 
ever, printed at Rome, by Pagliariné 
(104 pages, in 4to. 1794) has not been 
fold in public; and the work will, of 
courfe, be very rare. Prince Borghefe 
makes prefents of it to his friends. It 
‘Is the fame with a_ differtation, in 
which Vifconti explains the in{cription of 
a Greek vate, the property of prince 
PONIATOWSKI: Le Piitura di un antico 
vafe futile trovato nella magna Grewia ed 
appartenente al Principe Stanifl. Pomaiow- 
Ski, elpofie da E. Q. Vifconti; (at Reme, 
by Paglharini, 13 pages in folio, large 
fize, with four cuts). Another memoir 
of Vifconti, illuftrates a water-pipe 
of bronze, of the invention of Ctefi- 
bius, found in very good condition, 
on the coaft of Civita Wecchia, near 
aftel Nuovo, and ferves to clear up an 
obfcure paffaze in Vitruvius, l. x.cap.12. 
This memoir is found in the Giorzale de 
Litterature of Mantua, vol, v. p. 303, and 
following. 
The periodical work of the abbé Guar- 
tani (Notizie fulle Antichita di Roma) 
which, appeared from 1784 to 1789, and 
which contained notices and defcriptions 
of objeéts of antiquity, little known, or 
newly difcovered, is highly efteemed by 
the amateurs. The fame antiquarian 
has fince publifhed an interefting work, 
entitled Rema-autica (at Bologna, 2 vols. 
in 4to. 1795). with cuts; two other vo- 
lumes will alfo be added. This compila- 
tien fupplies the defects of thofe former- 
ly publifhed:by Donati, Nardini, &c. and 
is of inefiimable fervice to all, who, with- 
out having been at Rome, wifh to be ac- 
quainted ‘with: the ‘antiquities of that 
The 
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celebrated capitaF; a very particular ate . 
tention is given to the difcoveries fur- 
nifhed by the lateft excavations. The 
rich cabinet of cardinal. BorGta, at 
5 . Velletri, 
