a6) Memirs of Paulo Manuxia 
During his ftay in Rome, he made himfelf 
known to fome perfons whole acquaintance 
was afterwards of ufe to him; to Mar- 
cello Cervino, afterwards Pope Marcellus 
TI. Bern, Maffei, and Anib. Caro, 
After his return to Venice, be applied 
with tncreafing ardour to his claflical ftu- 
dies. Ina letter addrefled to G. Selva 
in 1556, he relates, that, for twenty years, 
not a day had paffed, on which he had not 
written fomething in Latin. Being far 
— opulent, he: was jnduced to under- 
gake the literary inttru€tion of twelve 
young men of family, at the fame time 
that he continued at labours in the 
printing-hox ve. He entertained thofe 
youths in hs houfe, for a courte of three 
yeais, during which they received his lef- 
fons. as of them known to have 
heen Matth. Senarega, who executed an 
Ftslian tranflation of Cicero’s Letters to 
Atticus; and Paulo Contarim. Manucci 
denominated this fociety of young pups, 
his dcadezy. 
In 1538, having ended his engagement 
with thote pupils, and not yet reluming 
the entire charge of the printing -houle, he 
went on an excurfion to examine the ma- 
puleripts in certain old libraries. Anni- 
bale Caro complains, in.a letter to him, 
written about this period, that he had ftolen 
away. from all his friends, and. buried 
himielf ina library at Cefena. And he 
did, in fact, pa‘s fome months in the libra- 
ry of the Franciicans, in that city, ex- 
smining certain manu/cripts left to their 
convent, by Malatefta Novelio. He was, 
abeut this time, alfo, invited to fill the 
el of the Profeffor of Eloquence, at 
fenice, which the infirmities of old age 
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soli ize ed his friend, Egnatio, torefign. He 
nad an offer, too, of a helen prefeflorfhip, 
ft vacant by the death of Bonamico, at 
Pacua. But his ill health, and h's predi- 
}eSticn for the employment, which his 
fa her had rendered io illuftrious, deter- 
wiced him to decli ine both thofe propofals, 
and yeturn to the printing-houfe.  # 
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Atter his final feparation from his’ 
uncles in 1540, he proceeded to print a 
great ae of the beft authors, ancient 
and modern, Virgil, Petrarch, and, above 
all, Cicero, pafied very often through 
re iS preis, 
After a fecond journey to Rome, he 
married, in 1646, Margherita, the dangh- 
t.r of Giroano Odom. His eldeit fon, 
ziido, was born about the middle of Fe- 
Lraary, 1547. .He had, afterwards, three 
«ther ch lorem: Giielamo, who died at 
bie years. f f ace, in the houfe of Wiiliam 
B fi fiv, at Ragula ; a daughter whom he 
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mentions feveral times in his letters, and 
who was married in 1573; b:fide a third 
fon, who died in infancy. 
One of the earliet fruits of Paulo Ma- 
nuzio’s ftudies, as an author, was a Trea- 
tife on Roman Antiquities. He was, as 
he him(elf informs us, engaged in prepa- 
Ting it, from the year 1547, to the year 
1557, when it was firft printed, and in 
folio. Histriends warmly encouraged him 
to afpire to that. glory which was to be - 
gained by fuch literary labours. The 
tamous S. Aldobrandini wrote to perfuade 
him to prefer the praife of learning and 
genius to a‘! that was to be enjoyed in 
wealth and civil honours ; and earnefily re- 
minded him, that he fhould fcorn to build 
his fortune and reputation, on any thing 
but his own talents and produétions. 
He would have wifhed to fettle at Rome, 
rather than Venice. At the former of 
thefe cities, he might have obtained a 
quicker fale for the books he printed, 
than was to be forced in his native piace, 
He propoled to go to Rome, for a few 
months, in 1550; but the journey feems 
to have been afterwards deferred. It is 
certain, from one of Paulo’s letters to Fr, 
Coccic, that he was two months at the 
papal capital, in fpring, 1553. | 
Tl health ftill interrupted him, from 
time to time, in hig application to ftudy. 
He was afflicted, in 3554, with a tertian 
fever; and, upon his recovery from that, 
with an oa humour in his eyes, from 
which he continued long to fuffer: ae 
inconvenience and pain. At length, 
z559, he obtained 3 perfegt cure from 
the extraordinary fkill of the famous Gabr. 
Falloppi. In 1555, while ill of his affec- 
tion in his eyes, he paid a vifit to his bro. 
ther Anthony at Bologna, who had been 
for fome youthful folly, banithed by the 
magiltrates, from Venice; Paulowas but 
poorly in health when he fet out for Bo- 
logna: on the road, he became warfe: af. 
ter his a 
fickly flate for much longer time than 
he had intended to flay. He met with 
many teftimonies of kindnefs and refpect, 
from the principal inhabitants of Bologna. 
The mogittrates offered him a falary of 
350 crowns a year, with other advantages, 
if he would only remain among them, and 
do their city the honour of making i it the 
feat of his prefs, and the fcene of nis pub- 
lications.. But ne could not be induced 
to accept this. offer immediately. The 
treaty wasen fect for about two years, _ 
between him and the Bolognefe; and was 
then dropped. Similar’and not lefs ad- 
yantageous offers were made to him from 
Peru gids 
rrival, he languifhed there in a. 
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