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t;ho;ib boiies. was [p immenfe, that the wjjftle i^and. o f OJero
was dtpgether coujpoftid q f them. This report naturally made
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was.born in Ed4«a, the $:h o f September 1717- His family
.i,srp/ttjec|£izeas,of.ancient origva. Father Fie, the Te-fult, was his ma$er in
the grammatical i k ie s :' profeffor Grmianl m philofopby; Luvagnoli fen ¡or m
medicine.; and the-ceiebrated Morgagni in anatomy. He ¡hewed, from his child-
hood, the greateft inclination for botany and natural hiftory; and, 96 *M i t ?
o f twelve years, knew ail the, medipinaj plants, ¥*4 1^4 made a. cojlfilion of
'naturd. pr0jiuaip,i)S. WTAcft fon?p. ^ the friendfinp of
the celebrated Pantcdera, and was generoufly furiufhed with hooks and informations
by the living profeffor Vallifneri junior. His beft mailers were, however, his
own mountain and maritime peregrinations ; which he began in Dalmatiain 1743,
and continued them for five years. He was not able 50 g9 ai wpy.s alone; anti on
account of his firaitened circumitances, which if bad company, he was fotnetimes
obliged tQJtravel vyith a riph f>erfpn, which is often worie. He was at Pola with
the cekhrated Count <?\9n Kinaldo Carli, who, with patriotick zeal, had undertaken
to illuftfate the lflrian antiquities, not to. leave f to «rangers, to the
foame qf the Italian name ; but there he did not ohferve much, and, made fipffif
mlftaket. He was chofen for adjutant to the 8 W
o f experimental phyOc, and cultivated under fp great a mailer all the parts of
p.byfiie-mathematicks. With him he made a journey to Rome, and there
became an intimate friend o f Lefrctti, the papal phyfician, to whom he
afterwards dedicated his Saggio dell« Jloria naturale dell' Adnatia, a work ot
great merit, [which Count Cinanni of Ravenna endeavoured to depreciate, tbpftgb
with little fuccefs. T h e effay of our Bmati, was publi^ed W i f p . ? * ?
afterwards tranflatfd into French. T h e fame which thp a»tfiqr a^mred induced
his Sardinian majefly to appoint him profeffor of bouny ^ncj natural b»C-
tory at Turin. He went there, as may be foppofed, very willingly i made tnany
excurfiops among the mountains of Savoy, *nd. Genoa, anti would have been
happy, could he always have converfed with the mountaineers, who generally
are harmleft people. T h e k ing, his m a t e , ftpt i t e p u t o f * e & * * * * & ,
mies, Whofe envy and hatred his merit alone M f i M * M
fet out on a voyage to Egypt, and from throes tS> v ife Sy.f>f, &
and the Eaft Indies, to make obfervations, and to colled the rareft produd.ons
of nature. In 1759, he, was in Alexandria, t o Egypt, as far as the g r e a t s -