much, as those that write the Italian hand; that is, the Modern Italians themselves.
Poets Ancient and Modern in Italy.For if the Italians anciently had their Virgil, their Ovid, their Horace, their Persius, and Propertius in Poetry, the Modern Italians spur close up to them, and have their Tasso, their Petrarch, their Sannazarius, their Marino, and Guarini.
Historians.If the old Italians had their Salust, Livy, Tacitus, and Valerius Maximus in History; the Modern Italians have their Guicciardine, Bentivoglio, Davila, Strada, aud Baptista Fregosus, surnamed the second Valerius Maximus.
Orators. Prodigies of Learning.If the ancient Italians had their pompous Orators, their Cicero, Hortensius, Porcius Latro, Junius Gallio, Aulius Fuscus &c. The Modern Italians have their Panigarola, Manzini, Varchi, and Loredano.
If the antient Italians had their Vast knowing Varro, the Modern Italians have their omniscious Baronius, who read almost all that other men had written, and wrotemore
