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FLORENCE. 317
fill. There is a Branch of the Family of
Me di cis inNaples: The Head of it has been
own’d as a Kinsman by the Grand Duke,
and ’tis thought will succeed to his Do-
minions, in case the Princes his Sons
die Childless; though ’tis not impossi-
ble but in such a Conjuncture, the Com-
mon-wealths, that are thrown under
the Great Dutchy,- may make some
Efforts towards the Recovery of their
ancient Liberty.
I was in the Library of Manuscripts
belonging to St. Laurence^ of which there
is a Printed Catalogue. I look’d into
the Virgil which disputes its Antiquity
with that of the Vatican. It wants the
Hie ego qui quondam^ &c. and the Twen-
ty Two Lines in the Second JEneid^
beginning at "Jarnque adeo fuper unus e-
ram-—I must confess I always thought
this Pasfage left out with a great deal of
Judgment by Hucca and Variusy as it
fcems to contradict a Part in the Sixth
&neid, and represents the Heroe in a
Passion, that is, at least, not at all be-
coming the Greatness of his Character.
Besides, I think the Apparition of Ve-
nus comes in very properly to draw him
away from the Sight of Priam's Mur-
der j for without such a Machine to take
him osf, I can’t see how the Heroe could,
with
fill. There is a Branch of the Family of
Me di cis inNaples: The Head of it has been
own’d as a Kinsman by the Grand Duke,
and ’tis thought will succeed to his Do-
minions, in case the Princes his Sons
die Childless; though ’tis not impossi-
ble but in such a Conjuncture, the Com-
mon-wealths, that are thrown under
the Great Dutchy,- may make some
Efforts towards the Recovery of their
ancient Liberty.
I was in the Library of Manuscripts
belonging to St. Laurence^ of which there
is a Printed Catalogue. I look’d into
the Virgil which disputes its Antiquity
with that of the Vatican. It wants the
Hie ego qui quondam^ &c. and the Twen-
ty Two Lines in the Second JEneid^
beginning at "Jarnque adeo fuper unus e-
ram-—I must confess I always thought
this Pasfage left out with a great deal of
Judgment by Hucca and Variusy as it
fcems to contradict a Part in the Sixth
&neid, and represents the Heroe in a
Passion, that is, at least, not at all be-
coming the Greatness of his Character.
Besides, I think the Apparition of Ve-
nus comes in very properly to draw him
away from the Sight of Priam's Mur-
der j for without such a Machine to take
him osf, I can’t see how the Heroe could,
with