Edgmond, Salop.
_The Parthenon._--M. de Chateaubriand says that the Greek, Theodore
Zygomalas, who wrote in 1575, is the first among modern writers to have
made known the existence of the Temple of Minerva or Parthenon, which was
believed to have been totally destroyed. The _Messager des Sciences et des
Arts de la Belgique_, vol. iv. p. 24., corrects Chateaubriand, and says
that Ciriaco d'Ancona had, in the year 1436, described this celebrated
monument, together with other ancient buildings of Athens. I am desirous of
verifying this statement, and for this purpose beg the assistance of some
of your learned correspondents, who may probably be able to inform me what
is the title and date of the work of Ciriaco in which this description of
the Parthenon occurs.