Retrofpelt of French Litsrature.—Biography. 
circumftance with the moft. miaute atten- 
tion, but even made occafional facrifices 
out of his private fortune. 
Tt isnot mentioned whether he was dif. 
miffed from or refigned this piace, but he 
appears focn after officiating in avery dif- 
ferent capacity. We are told. that as he 
poffefled an extenfive knowledge of the 
mechanical arts, that branch of the admi- 
niftration which fuperintended the manu- 
fa&ture of firearms confided to him the 
dire&tion of one of its offices. He alfo 
was fenton a mifiion to fuperintend the 
formation of gun flints in the deépart- 
ments of Loir and Cher! We are told, at 
the {ame time, what we know to be a grofs 
miftake, that this {pecies of flint is’ only 
to be met with in France, and there too 
in but a {mall portion of it. 
Socn after this M. Salivet was admitted 
to a place mire nearly connected with his 
original purfuits in life ; for we foon after 
find him occupying a fituation under the 
Minifter of Juftice; and in the courle of a 
tew more years he was cholen one of the 
profeflors of the Academy’ of Legiflation, 
when he gave public letures on the hifto- 
ry and antiquities of the Rom=n law, 
We are next told that M.. Salivet 
pofleiled many other good quatities, and 
that in particular he exhibited a fine 
tafte for the turning-loom! © that’ art 
(adds his biographer,) to which many 
illuttrious perfonages have addiéted the.n- 
felves, an: in which fovereigns them- 
felves have frequeitly found a relaxa- 
tion from graver labours. He acesrd- 
ingly provided: all’ the neceflaty appara- 
tus, and not only executed’ feveral’ moz 
dels in mechanics, but in 1792 publifhed 
a work istitled ** Manuel de Tourneur,’” 
in two quarto'volumes, with feventy-one 
plates.” 
We find alfo that it was he who com- 
pofed the article Eroffes de Soie in the firkt 
Encyclopedia. In’ addition to this, he 
was the fellow-labourer of Bevy in the 
** Hiffoire des Inaugurations,’? a work re- 
plete with curious refearches, and which 
may be confulted with advantage relative 
to the manners and cultoms of every 
age. , 
The dcefire of being ufeful, which 
ftifled, we are told, every other {pecies of 
ambitien in the kofom of Salivet, is to be 
remarked in all the different occupations 
in which he was engaged. Inltead there- 
fore of employing hmfelf in the compofi- 
tion of original publications, he preferred 
to correét the works of others. He ac- 
cordingly edited feveral editions of cliti- 
cal works, and in 1778 brought out Dat 
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cier’s Tranflation of Plutarch, in twelve 
volumes oftavo, with notes. He had alfa 
begun the ** Legum Delectus”’ of Domat, 
a tract admirably adapted for facilitating » 
the ftudy of jurifprudence. 
‘© The laborious and able man (fays 
M. Dumont,) whofe life I have briefly 
iketched, died at thé age of 67, in confe- 
quence of a malady produced by that fpe- 
cies of weaknefs which aries out of fa- 
tigue. His country in him loft a moft ex- 
cellent citizen, and his widow and chil- 
dren a hufband and a father adored by 
them, and at the fame time their only fap- 
port ; whilé his fcholars have been be- 
reaved of a beloved mafter, whom they 
will never forget, and the Athenevm of 
Arts of one of its moft diftinguifhed mem- 
bers. 
‘¢ Hiftoire Littéraire de PAbbé Mo. | 
reli,” &c.—The Literary Hiftory of the 
Abbé Morelli, trantlated from the Ita. 
lian. 
Inthe courfé of this work Morelli gives 
biographical fketches of the following 
learned: Venetian travellers, whole biftory 
has been hitherto but littl known, viz, 
Paolo Trevifano. —2, Giovanni, 
Bembo. — 3. Peleezrino Brocirdi. — 4. 
Ambrogio Bembo.—'5. Gian- Antonio So: 
derini.—6. Benedetto Dandolo.—7. Buo- 
niauto Albani: —8. Tommafo Gradenigas 
—-9. Niccolo Branealeono.-—-10. Anto- 
nio Priuli.mrz. Carlo Maggi ;—and 2. 
Cecchino Martinello. 
We thall here give fome account of a 
few of thefe. 
\¥, PAOLO TREVISANO, 
Paul Trevifan was born in 14:52 ; and 
his father’s family being’ very numerous, 
(for he had no fewer than eleven brothers, ) 
it was determined by him to endeavour to 
ma en 
“ameliorate his own lot by removing to a 
foreign country. His youth’ was accord- 
ingly (pent in fea-Voyages, in the courfe 
of which he vilited Syria, Egypt, Arabia, 
Palestine, aod Ethiopia, in fuccefliont 
Paffine afterwards into Greece, he rematin- 
ed a coniiderable time at Cyprus, .where 
he efpouled, in 1434, a rich widow, who 
pofli fled a diftinguifhed rank im that ifland, ~ 
and enjoyed a high degreé of favout, in 
confcquence of being’ placed about the 
perfon of the queen. 
The excellence of his character, in ad- 
dition to the abilities difplayed by Trevi- 
fano in bufinefS, induced the Grand Mai- 
ter of the Order of St. John of Jeruialem 
to felect him as a proper perfon to nego- 
tiate a treaty of peace with the Soudon or 
Sulran of Egypt. This miffion was exe- 
cuted with fuch propriety and fidelity on 
gk 2 his 
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