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artifts have raifed hopes that che art will 
be retrieved from its prefent flate of 
decline. ‘ 
Among the artifts of eminence now at 
Rome; GAspar LANDI, a patrician of 
Placentia, takes the lead; his two laft 
pictures are mentioned with the higheit- 
eulogiums, by the Direétor Rosst. 
One of thefe reprefeats Heftor reproach- 
ing Paris; in the other, the parting of 
Hetor and Andromache are delineated. 
The imagination of the. painter has 
infufed new !ife into this hackneyed 
fubject--- Andromache appears worthy of 
our attention and admiration ; her perfon 
unites the majefty of Juno's figure, 
with the /eggiadra atliiudine fo exquihtely 
charming in the Magdalen of Correggio. 
Among the Tcalian {feulptors, ANT. 
.. Conova, the Venetian, claims honour- 
able mention. His laft groupe, which 
reprefents Adonis tearing bimfelf away 
frou ike arms of Venus, 10 repair ta the 
chaje, has been fent to Naples, to the 
Marguis de S. Berio, who, in a royal 
refeript, Alled with the meft flattering 
notices, has procured its entrance, exempt 
from all duties, a fanétion which 1s 
one of the moft 
gloricus triumphs of the art. 
" I have thus completed my original 
fubject of makisg a rapid review of the 
feveral departments of Italian literature. 
In your future Numbers you may expect 
fome other information from me on the 
fame fubjeét, but on a plan fomewhat 
different. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
CONTINUATION OF REMARKS ON 
THE) PORTER We .OF ) “SPAIN (AND 
PORTUGAL. 
be MANUEL DE VILLEGAS 
was bora in the city of Nagera, Old 
Caftille, in the year 1595: the reigns of 
the lid and Iild Philip were generally 
‘favourable to literature ; yet neither the 
claims of illuffrious family, nor of diftin- 
guifhed abilities, procured patronage for 
Villegas, and his long life was {pent in 
continual. hopes, and continual difap- 
pointment. At the age of fourteen, he 
became a fiudent at law, at the univer- 
fity of Salamanca. Villegas muft have 
regretted, in his age, the employments 
of his youth: for chofe hours that fhould 
have been (aérrficed ro the civilians, were 
given tothe ¢ 
nor could the title he acquired, of the 
spanith Anacreon, atone for after years 
Poetry of Spain and Portugal. 
and correéted at twenty.” 
sreek and Koman poets ; 
[ April, 
of fruitlefs expectation, embittered by 
the dificulties of a narrow fortune. 
His ** Delicias®’ were, as he himfelf 
tells us, in the firft of them,’ written at 
fourteen, and correéted at twenty. 
A los veinte limidas, 
A los catorce efcritas. 
They form the fecond book of his 
Eroticas, or Amatory poems, which he 
publifhed at Nagera, in 1618. Thefe 
poems are faid to unite in themfelves the 
{weetnefs of Anacreon, the fimplicity of 
Theocritus, the eafe of Horace, and the 
elegance of Catullus. In fine (fays the 
editor of Parnafo Efpanol) he has dif- 
played whatever conftitutes a great poet, 
rendering himfelf the firft of his own 
nation, and equally the moft celebrated 
of antiquity. hat 
Something mufi be allowed for the 
prodigality of a Spaniard’s praife; fome- 
thing for the age and country in which 
Villegas wrote; and fomething for the 
errors of a work, ‘* written at fourteen, 
The poems 
are “trifing, like their fubjects, playful 
and elegant. One, perhaps the beft of 
the feries; addreffed to a fiream, has 
lately been tranflated. The following is 
attempted in the Anacreontic metre of 
the original, varying, however, the uni. 
formity of cadence, which vould others 
wife weary an Englith ear : 
TO WINTER. 
ENovuGu, enough, old Winter ! 
Thou workeft to annoy us, 
With cold, and rain, and tempeft, 
When fnows have hid the countr 
And rivers ceafe to flow. 
The flocks and herds accufe thee, 
And even the littleermine 
Complains of thee, old Winter! 
For thou to man art freezing, 
And his white fur is warm. 
The beatts they crouch in cover, 
The birds are cold and hungry, 
The birds are cold and filent, . 
Cr with a weak complaining 
‘They call thee hard and cruel, 
But not to me, old Winter! 
Thy tyranny extends 
For I have wine and muific, 
The cheerfil hearth and fong, a 
¥ 
The reputation of thefe poems has 
been feverely attacked, in an eflay, pre- 
fixed to the pofthumous poems of Don 
Jofeph Iglerias de la Cafa, printed at 
Salamanca, 1793. ‘“* The Delicias of 
Villegas (fays the anonymous writer) are 
the frft poems of their kind which ob- 
tained celebrity in the Spanish language, 
eae * Our 
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