the great-dukes. Mr. Addison's opinion of it verified. An epitaph in the cathedral of Parma. A defect in the cathedral of Florence.

LETTER XV. From Florence, p. 177.

Strictures on the gout. The public virtues and private vices of the princes of Medici. Anecdotes of the murders of cardinal John de Medici and his brother Garcias. Thofe murders concealed by all the Italian biftorians. General character of Cofmo I. Ammirato's account of the above tranfaction. His confcious knowledge of it discovered.

LETTER XVI. From Florence, p. 188. Defects in the feveral biftories of Florence. The dangerous excellence of Machiavel. Tranflation of a Speech of Lorenzo de Medici. Character of Machiavel. Ammirato's cenfure of him. Account of Varchi, Segni, and Ammirato.

LETTER XVII. From Florence, p. 206. The prudence of Ammirato. The virtuous refiftance of Bianca Capello. The murder

der of her bufband. Her marriage to the great-duke Francis. Their fhocking catastrophe mifreprefented by every printed hiftorian.

LETTER XVIII. From Marignolle, p.218. Feast of St. Philip. Reflections on hiftory. The revolutions of Europe. The weakness and poverty of Tufcany. A project formed by count Richecourt difappointed. The count's disgust at the English. The Florentines jealous of the Lorrainefe. The state-revenue and expences. The advantages which England has over defpotic ftates; over Venice, Holland, and Switzerland. Her difadvantages. Wine fold by the Florentine nobility.

LETTER XIX. From Marignolle,p. 234. Sketches of the characters of lords Huntingdon and Stormont. The Italian rains. Remains of the ancient Fiezole. The modern Tufcans compared with the old Etrurians. Superftition of the preJent Florentines. Two ruinous monthly lotteries. Jeremiah the faint in vogue. The flavery of Florence. Comparative happiness of England.

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LETTER XX. From Marignolle, p. 247-
Profufion of Leopold duke of Lorrain.
Propofal made to him by one of his mi-
nifters. His address to the marchioness of
**** Her frank confeffion to her
bufband. Their retreat to Milan. The
duke's amour with a country-girl. Her
marriage to the prince de Craon. Their
amiable characters. The prince de Cra-
on fupplanted in the regency of Tusca-
ny by count Richecourt.

Additional Notes.

The Genealogy of the Houfe of Medici.

N. B. The noble author's notes are diftinguish-
ed from those of the editor by being marked
with inverted commas "".

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WILLIAM DUNCOMBE, Esq.

LETTER I.

SIR,

Lyons, October 2d, 1754

Muft refer you to your maps, if you

I will read this letter, and in my future

letters I fhall probably talk to you of roads and hills that are not to be found upon record, unless taken notice of in one of the vast volumes of Atlaffes. If you are wearied in the journey, it is your own fault: remember you were pofitively refolved upon a correfpondence with one of the Appennigena. Your fon is young, and can undauntedly climb even to the top of Parnaffus. Pray take

him with you, if you still hold your refolution of following me into Italy. I had fo often beheld the gaieties of Paris, and they had made fo small an impreffion on my heart, that I had no desire to see them again. We therefore immediately ftruck out of the Paris road, and paffing from Calais through Artois into French Flanders, we rested ourfelves at Lifle. The town of Lifle has nothing in it remarkably curious. The great fquare (La Place) is very handfome and very large; however, not equal in fize to Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Their houses are of stone, fix or seven ftories high, built entirely in the French manner, which, by want of all kind of proportion, by windows filled with small panes of thick, yellow, muddy glass, by an aukward fort of ornament, like and very unlike a pediment on the top, have a difagreeable appearance to an English eye. The people themselves feem to poffefs a happy mixture between the excess of

French