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ARTICLE XVII.

Orbis Sacer & Profanus illuftratus. Pars fecunda Europam complectens. Volumen primum, in quo de Italia ejusque Provinciis, Pedemontio, Liguria, Infubria, Venetia, & Ditione Pontificia. Opus Ecclefiafticæ & Profana Hiftoria nec non Geographie Studiofis apprime utile. Auctore P. Francifco Orlendio, Ordinis Prædicatorum Magiftro, & in Univerfitate Pifana Theologorum Dogmatum Profeffore. Florentiæ 1731.

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The Sacred and Profane World illustrated. Part fecond, comprizing Europe: Vo lume the firft: treating of Italy and its Provinces, Piedmont, the State of Ge noa, Savoy, Venice, and the Pope's Dominions. A Work very useful for Students in Ecclefiaftical and Profane Hiftory and Geography: By Francis Orlendi, Dominican, and Profeffor of Divinity in the University of Pifa. Florence 1731. Fol. Pagg. 790. with a copious Index.

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this Work in our fecond Volume, Page 55, &c. In that Part the Author defcribed only fuch Ecclefiaftical Provinces and Dioceses as were either fubject to the Romans, or bordered upon their Empire, confidered ac

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cording to the antient Notitia's. In this fecond Part, as well as in the other he promises to publish, he intends to give us a more exact and diftinct Account of the Provinces he has alrea dy touched upon, and moreover to describe fuch as he has not yet mentioned, by reafon of their being without the bounds of the antient Roman Empire. The Volume we are now to give an account of, being the firft of the fecond Part, treats of Italy alone, which, in our Author's Opinion, deferves no lefs to be preferred to the other Countries of Europe, than Europe to the other Parts of the World. This Volume is divided into three Books: in the first our Author relates the antient Names of Italy, and their Origin; defcribes its Situation, Confines, Harbours, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers; gives an account of its antient Inhabitants, of the various Changes it has fuffered, &c. The antient Names of Italy are Janiculum, Oenotria, Aufonia, Saturnia, Camefene or Camifene, Hefperia. According to Leander, it was called Faniculum from King Janus, who reigned in Italy in the Year of the World 2722, that is, 150 Years before the Arrival of Æneas. We are told indeed by Hiftorians, that Janus built a City on the Banks of the Tyber, which, together with the Hill it stood upon, was, from him, called Janiculum; but that this Name was ever given to all Italy, is what can hardly be made out. Janus was the first who taught the Italians to ufe Wine in their Sacrifices, and is therefore called, by Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus * Qenotrus, from the Greek Word Oivos. As he was furnamed Oenotrus, fo all Italy was from him, according to fome, called Oenotria. But * Dion. Halicar. Lib. 2. Hiftor. Roman. others,

ARTICLE XVII.

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Orbis Sacer & Profanus illuftratus. Pars fecunda Europam complectens. Volumen primum, in quo de Italia ejufque Provinciis, Pedemontio, Liguria, Infu bria, Venetia, & Ditione Pontificia. Opus Ecclefiafticæ & Profana Hiftoria nec non Geographie Studiofis apprimè utile. Auctore P. Francifco Orlendio, Ordinis Prædicatorum Magiftro, & in Univerfitate Pifana Theologorum Dogmatum Profeffore. Florentia 1731.

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The Sacred and Profane World illuftrated. Part fecond, comprizing Europe: Vo lume the firft: treating of Italy and its Provinces, Piedmont, the State of Ge noa, Savoy, Venice, and the Pope's Dominions. A Work very useful for Students in Ecclefiaftical and Profane Hiftory and Geography: By Francis Orlendi, Dominican, and Profeffor of Divinity in the University of Pifa. Florence 1731. Fol. Pagg. 799. with a copious Index.

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E gave an Account of the firft Part of this Work in our fecond Volume, Page 55, &c. In that Part the Author defcribed only fuch Ecclefiaftical Provinces and Dioceses as were either fubject to the Romans, bordered upon their Empire, confidered ac

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cording to the antient Notitia's. In this fecond Part, as well as in the other he promises to publish, he intends to give us a more exact and diftinct Account of the Provinces he has alrea dy touched upon, and moreover to describe fuch as he has not yet mentioned, by reafon of their being without the bounds of the antient Roman Empire. The Volume we are now to give an account of, being the firft of the fecond Part, treats of Italy alone, which, in our Author's Opinion, deferves no lefs to be preferred to the other Countries of Europe, than Europe to the other Parts of the World. This Volume is divided into three Books: in the first our Author relates the antient Names of Italy, and their Origin; describes its Situation, Confines, Harbours, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers; gives an account of its antient Inhabitants, of the various Changes it has fuffered, &c. The antient Names of Italy are Janiculum, Oenotria, Aufonia, Saturnia, Camefene or Camifene, Hefperia. According to Leander, it was called Faniculum from King Janus, who reigned in Italy in the Year of the World 2722, that is, 150 Years before the Arrival of Æneas. We are told indeed by Hiftorians, that Janus built a City on the Banks of the Tyber, which, toge ther with the Hill it stood upon, was, from him, called Faniculum; but that this Name was ever given to all Italy, is what can hardly be made out. Janus was the first who taught the Italians to ufe Wine in their Sacrifices, and is therefore called, by Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus * Qenotrus, from the Greek Word Oivos. he was furnamed Oenotrus, fo all Italy was from him, according to fome, called Oenotria. But Dion. Halicar. Lib. 2. Hiftor. Roman.

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others, as Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus, Myrfilius Lesbius, Paufanias, and Antiochus Syracufanus, are of opinion, that Italy had that Name from Oenotrus, Son to Lycaon, who fettled in that Country, according to Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus, feventeen Ages before the Trojan War, that is 459 Years; for the Dionyfian Ages are but of 27 Years. Others, among whom Servius and Goropius, maintain, that Italy was called Oenotria from the Greek Word Oivos, on account of the excellent Wines it produced. Goropius on this occafion makes an Obfervation, which perhaps is not amifs; he fays, that in inquiring after the Origin of the antient Names of Countries, the Authority of Greek Writers is not to be much depended upon, because wherefoever they meet with a Greek Name, they refer it to fome Greek Prince or other; as if all the Countries that bear Greek Names, had been peopled with Greek Colonies. The Name of Aufonia was given to Italy from its antient Inhabitants, called Aufones, who were the fame People with the Arunci, and named Aufones from their Leader Aufon, the Son of Ulyffes and Calypfo. It had the Name of Saturnia from Saturn, to whom Janus gave part of his Kingdom, and that of Camefene, or Camifene, from Camifes, whom fome will have to have been Brother, others Sifter, and fome Wife, to Janus. It was named Hefperia from Hesperus, Brother to Atlas, who, if we give credit to Hyginus and Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus, being driven out of his own Country by his Brother, fettled in Italy, and established part of it into a Kingdom. The fame Name of Hefperia was given to Spain from the Star Hefperus, which in the Evening appears in the West, Spain being the most

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