"Luigi Lanzi was a learned churchman, a skilful antiquarian, a lover of
painting and sculpture, a sensible critic, something of a poet, and in all
those matters remarkably diligent and enthusiastic. He travelled, he
examined, he collected, he studied, and he wrote; and early acquired the
reputation of a candid judge of art, and a sagacious antiquarian. His
admirable work has been recently translated into English by Mr. Thomas
Roscoe, a gentleman whose varied knowledge in foreign literature entitles
him to much respect. His name is sufficiently known to the public, not to
need any great recommendation at our hands; but we must indeed say, that
the translator has conferred a great benefit on that portion of his readers
who are not professed Italian scholars. The work of Lanzi is full of
difficulties, even to Italians themselves, on account of the terms of Art
with which almost every page is full: it thus very much redounds to the
credit of Mr. Roscoe, to have produced so excellent and faithful a
translation, and written wherewithal with great elegance of diction. Of
this our readers cannot fail to be at once convinced, when we inform them
that he was materially assisted by his own respectable father; by Mr. W. H.
Ottley; by Dr. Traill; and by Signor Panizzi, at present resident at
Liverpool, one of the profoundest scholars and best of Italian critics."
Transcriber's Notes:
The prior five volumes of this series are identified in the indexes with
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times.
In the first index, names beginning with "I" and "J" are alphabetized as
though the I and J are the same letter, so that Ja... entries appear before
Ib... and Jo... after In.... Names beginning with "U" and "V" are treated
in the same manner.
Some dates of birth and death cited by the author are at variance from
those reported by subsequent sources. Dates that are clearly typographical
errors were adjusted, as listed below. Otherwise, dates were left as
printed, even though the given dates lead to illogical results (e.g., see
entries for Stephano and Alessandro Magnasco).
Some page numbers in the indexes are not in numerical order and may not
correspond to the item indexed. The numbers were not changed. Several
entries omit the volume number associated with the listed page numbers.
Volume 5 of this set of books had two extra pages, identified as *63 and
64*, inserted following pages 63 and 64. In the version of that volume at
www.gutenberg.org, these two pages are identified as 63A and 64A.
References within this volume to those two pages were printed as 63* and
64*.
Punctuation was standardized.
"Ib." was changed to "ib." for consistency within the text.
A bindery note at the bottom of the first page of "Critical Opinions"
indicates that the reviews following "THE END" should have been
published at the beginning of Volume 1.
Other changes:
First Index:
Date of birth for Barbalunga (Antonio Ricci) from 1690 to 1600.
Date of birth for G. B. Calandra from 1686 to 1586.
Entry for Cimatori: 'Visacei' to 'Visacci.'
'Galti' to 'Gatti'
Dates of notices for Lorenzo Lotto from 1613 to 1513.
Removed duplicate 'd.' from entry for Jacopo Marieschi.
Date of death for Tammaso Salini from 4625 to 1625.
Date of death for Tommaso Sandrino from 1530 to 1630.
'Costantino' to 'Constantino' (de' Servi).
Second Index:
'Where-ever' to 'Wherever' under Guides for Ferrara.
Section symbol to the word 'section' under entry for Meerman.
Third Index:
'Punic Wax' to 'Punic War' under entry for Luigi Torri.
Page number from 234 to 334, under listing for Animals, volume ii.
'respectacle' to 'respectable' in text of Foreign Quarterly Review.