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264 CLASSICAL TOUR Ch. VII.
rated in a grand style, and furnished with ap-
propriate apparatus. In this palace sits the Aca-
demy of Sciences, a singular monument of that
enthusiasm for knowledge, which has always
formed a distinctive feature in the Italian cha-
racter.
This Academy of high reputation in the re-
public of letters, owes its origin in the seven-
teenth century, to a noble youth of the name of
Eustachio Manfredi, who, at the early age of
sixteen, formed a literary society, and collected
at certain stated assemblies in his own house, all
the men of taste and talents in Bologna. The
spirit of the founder has never abandoned the
academy, which still continues to enrich the
learned world with its productions, and to sup-
port the fame and the glory of its origin.
In the same palace, are a library containing
at least one hundred and fifty thousand volumes,
open to the public six days in the week ·, an ob-
servatory furnished with an excellent astronomi-
cal apparatus; a vast chemical laboratory; a
cabinet of natural history; an experimental ca-
binet with all kinds of instruments for physical
operations; two halls of architecture, one for
the civil, the other for the military branches of
this art; a marine hall; a gallery of antiquities;
rated in a grand style, and furnished with ap-
propriate apparatus. In this palace sits the Aca-
demy of Sciences, a singular monument of that
enthusiasm for knowledge, which has always
formed a distinctive feature in the Italian cha-
racter.
This Academy of high reputation in the re-
public of letters, owes its origin in the seven-
teenth century, to a noble youth of the name of
Eustachio Manfredi, who, at the early age of
sixteen, formed a literary society, and collected
at certain stated assemblies in his own house, all
the men of taste and talents in Bologna. The
spirit of the founder has never abandoned the
academy, which still continues to enrich the
learned world with its productions, and to sup-
port the fame and the glory of its origin.
In the same palace, are a library containing
at least one hundred and fifty thousand volumes,
open to the public six days in the week ·, an ob-
servatory furnished with an excellent astronomi-
cal apparatus; a vast chemical laboratory; a
cabinet of natural history; an experimental ca-
binet with all kinds of instruments for physical
operations; two halls of architecture, one for
the civil, the other for the military branches of
this art; a marine hall; a gallery of antiquities;