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for thofe of Parmigiane, was probably 
the firk zzveutor of the method of work- 
ing on copper in dry point (that is {cratch- 
ing on copper without varnith); after- 
wards carried to fuch perfection by Rem- 
brant, Worlidge, and Capt. Bailly ; and 
lately revived, with great improvement, by 
Mr. Blake, by means of a procefs only 
practifed by himfelf-and a few of his 
friends. As few of the prints of Meldofla 
(all of which are ufually fold at exorbitant 
prices) have his mark, it may be uftful 
to point gut two of the larger performances 
that are marked with his name, and by 
means of a icference to which, his fiyle 
may be afcertained to a certainty. The 
firft is a folio print on two plates, on a 
ftone in the corner of which is etigraved, 
ORIENTiBUS. GALLIS.! ILiION. CE- 
CciDiIT. MD. XLVII——EXVRCITIBVS. 
GALLV. RENOVABITVR. 
Below the infcription is a river god, with 
his back to \the fpectator, und on the 
waves, Andrea Meldoffa, inventor. ‘The 
ftyle js very much like Parmigiano, and 
the priot has twenty human figures, and 
three horfes in it, 2lfo a veflel overice; 
above are Jupiter, and Juno in her car, 
drawn by peacocks, a temple, and an 
obelifk in the right hand corner. This 
print was in the colletion ef Mr. Crateb- 
yode, now I believe in the Britifh Mu- 
feum, and near it was another impreffion 
of the fame print; where in the place of 
the name of the engraver, was a dolphin. 
Even that Jearsed collector had put them 
at the end of his volume of Parmigianos. 
He alfo engraved thus, a long 4to. the 
fubjeé& from Rafael, and put his name at 
Jength to it; on the ground a fhield, with 
a Medufa’s head. ‘ 
F. QUEVEDO DE VILLEGAS 
Says fomewhere, ‘* Lend and never afk 
for your monev, make prefents, treat, 
bear, endure, do good turns, hold your 
peace, and fuffer yourfelf to be cheated 
cheerfuily ; fo foall you be beloved of all 
mankind,”* ny 
His advice to thofe who would be fuccefs- 
ful in fuits at law was, “* Never pay your 
council nor attorney, nordifchargeany fees 
of court; for all that money is certainly 
loft, and it isa daily charge to you. And if 
you pay them and gain your caufe, ftill 
your money is gone ; or, if you are caft, 
#tiil worfe. For, take notice, before you 
go to law, the controverfy is, whether the 
money is your’s or another’s; but when 
the {uit is begun, the contrivance is that. 
it be neit her your’s nor the other's, but 
a 
Extraéis from the Port-felio of a Man of Letters. . [Feb. 1, 
their’s who pretend to defend you both.” 
—At Rome, in the chancery court, on 
the ftair-cafe, ‘there is a bas-relievo of 
Apollo flaying Marlyas; on which a 
ftinging epigram has been made at the ex- 
pence of the lawyers. 
RICH. HAYDOCKE. 
It fhews how early the Englifh nation 
had coliectors of works of art among 
them; that Haydecke, in his preface to 
his tranflation of Lematius from the Ita- 
lian, advifes his readers to {pare no colt 
to procure the works of ancient matters: 
adding, “In which point fome of our 
nobility, and divers private gentlemen, 
have very weil acquitted themlelves; as 
may’ appear by their galleries carefully 
furnifhed with excellent monuments of 
fundry famous mafters, bSth Italian and 
German. nena 
THE LATE DR.STERBING, OF GRAY’s 
INN, 
Speaking, in one of his fermons, of 
Hume and fome other metaphyfical writers, 
once faid, faicaftically, ‘* Our thoughts 
are naturally carried back, on this ocea- — 
fion, to the author of the firft philofophy ; 
who likewile engaged to open the eyes of 
the puolic.—He did fo; but the only dit- 
covery they found themfelves able to make 
was, that they were naked!” 
ST. PIERRE. 
Tt was beautifully faid by him, “ The. 
weavil and the moth oblige the wealthy 
monopolizer to bring his goods to market, 
and by deflroying the wardrobes of the 
epulent they give bread to the induftrious. 
Were grain as incorruptible as gold, it 
would be foon as fcarce; and we ought 
to blefs the hand that created the infect 
that obliges then to fift, turn, and ulti- 
mately to bring the grain to public fale.” 
MASUCCIO SALERNITsNO. 
The firft edition of his novels, printed 
in Naples, in folio in 1476, was fold, in 
the Paris fale for 21].; the fecond edition, 
1492, for sl. #5s.6d. ‘The language of 
both is Neapoiitan, and very obfolete ; 
yet it feems very probable that Lawrence 
Sterne had ftudied them, for his manner 
of telling a flory is very like old Mafuc- 
cio’s. To gono farther than his Preface, 
where, by way of compliment to his 
readers, he relates the following event. 
‘« Tn thofe days of illuftrious and happy 
remembrance, in the reign of Queen Mar- 
garet, there was a wealthy merchant of 
great traffic, and well known throughout 
all Italy, named Guardo Salufgio, of an 
honourable family. Now this man, walk. 
ing one day carelefsly before his fhop, ca 
the 
