LITTERARIA: OR, AN EXACT AND EARLY ACCOUNT OF THE MOST VALUABLE BOOKS Published in the feveral Parts of EUROPE. Floriferis ut apes in faltibus omnia libant, འ་ Lucret. LONDON: Printed for N. PREVOST, over-againft Southamp ton Street, in the Strand. M.DCC.XXXIII. (Price One Shilling.) ATABLE of the ARTICLES For No. XXII. 1733. TH Art. XVIII.HE Works of CHARLES SIGONIUS, published by PHILIP ARGELATI of Bologna, with the Life of the Author, written by LEWIS ANTHONY MURATORI. 317 Art. XIX. Sermons on the following Subjects, viz. Of the Univerfal Senfe of Good and Evil, &c. By JAMES FOSTER. 337 Art. XX. A Second Abstract of Mr.DE CROUSAZ'S Examination of Pyrrhonifm, Ancient and Modern. [See the first Abstract in No. XXI. Article XII. P. 226.] 368 Art. XXI. A Specimen of Errors, Omissions, &c. in No. II. (containing eight Sheets) of the pretended Compleat and Accurate Tranflation of Mr. Bayle's DICTIONARY. London. 390 417 LITTERARIA. ARTICLE XVIII. ر CAROLI SIGONII MUTINENSIS Opera omnia, edita & inedita, cum notis variorum illuftrium Virorum; Et ejufdem VITA a CL. V. LUD. ANTONIO MURATORIO, Sereniffimi Ducis Mutinæ Bibliothecario confcripta. PHILIPPUS ARGELATUS Bononienfis nunc primum collegit, fuafque Animadverfiones in aliquot Sigonii Opufcula adjecit, nec non Indicibus locupletiffimis exornavit. Tomus I. That is, The Works of CHARLES SIGONIUS, published by PHILIP ARGELATI of Bologna, with the Life of the Author, written by LEWIS ANTHONY MURATORI. Vol. I. Fol. Printed at Milan. 1732: T HE Works of Sigonius are fo vaftly ufeful, I had almost faid neceffary to all thofe, who would have a perfect Knowledge of History, that the Publick cannot but be extremely obliged to the learned. Philip Argelati, who intends to publish all the Works of Sigonius, which were become very No. XXII. 1733.... Z VOL. IV. fcarce, fcarce. The firft Volume, which is now publifhed, fufficiently fhews the Editor is every way qualified for the Task he undertakes. He gives us in his Preface an account of what he has performed in this Volume, and of what he intends to do in the following. THE Works of Sigonius have been printed feveral times; but if the printed Editions only had been followed, we should not have had all the Works of that celebrated Author; fince feveral of them had never been published, and lay hid in fome Libraries of Italy: Mr. Argelati has fpared no Pains nor Coft to get all thofe Manuscripts, and he tells us that he has been fuccessful in his researches; fo that we may be fure to have a compleat Edition of all Sigonius's Works*; tho' Mr.Argelati fays, that for fome reafons he cannot yet give us the Titles of the Manuscripts he intends to publish. He has prefixed to this Volume the Life of Sigonius, which Mr. Muratori wrote at his requeft; we'll give an account of it hereafter. Next follow the Fafti Confulares; and, because, fince the time of Sigonius, feveral Discoveries and Obfervations have been made upon that Subject, which fhew that Sigonius was fometimes mistaken, it was neceffary to make fome Remarks upon his Fafti. The learned and reverend F.D. Jofeph Maria Stampa has took that Task upon him he has collected the Obfervations of the most famous Criticks, namely of Petavius, Pighius, and Almeloveen, to correct the Fafti of Sigonius, from the time of Romulus, to that of Julius Cefar; and from that time, to the Death of Auguftus, he has made ufe of Mediobardus, Pagi, Tillemont, Except perhaps his Ecclefiaftical History. See hereafter, Page 318, Tillemont, and Blanchini: from the Death of Auguftus, to the Year of Chrift 146, he has follow'd Cardinal Noris; and laftly, from the Year 146, to 284, the famous Peter Reland has been his Guide. But he does not follow his Authors fo fcrupulously, as never to diffent from them; for he fometimes takes the liberty to confute them by his own Observations. And as in order to fettle the Chronology, it was neceffary to enlarge upon fome particular Points, Father Stampa has interwoven his Notes with feveral Differtations. 1. Concerning the Year in which Rome was built, and that in which the Confuls were first established; of the Divifion of the Year in Months and Days, made by Romulus, alter'd by Numa, and corrected by the Decemviri, &c. 2. Concerning the Spoils or Booty taken from the Enemy, and concerning the general Affemblies or Comitia of the Romans: alfo concerning the different Opinions of Chronologers, about the manner in which Rome was first peopled, and their way of reckoning the Year. He has alfo inferted fome other Differtations concerning the Year in which Chrift was born, and that, in which he began to preach after his Baptifm; concerning his laft Paffover, and the time he lived upon Earth, which he maintains, was thirty-three Years. Thefe Differtations of Father Stampa are joined with his Notes, and are put under the Text of Sigonius. Father Stampa has also added a Continuation to the Fafti of Sigonius, fince the Death of Auguftus, where Sigonius ends, to the time of the Emperors Dioclefian and Maximian, where Sigonius begins his Hiftory of the western Empire. THE Books of Sigonius, concerning the western Empire, have been illuftrated by Fa ther |