The Academy of Wits.20. But that you may not think them better fed, then taught; they haue erected here an Academy of Wits, called Gli Otiosi, or, Idlemen, by a Figure of Rhetorick called a Lie, or per antiphrasin, because they are not idle. Its this Academy (I believe) which hath helpt to set out three rare Modern Writers of this Town,The Learned MenCardinal Bentivoglio, the Marquis of Malvezzi, and John Baptista Manzini; the first, the Titus Livius of his age, the second, the Lucius Florus of his age; and the third, the Marcus Tullius of his time. To whom I may add Leandro Alberti, the Camden of Italy.
The Historians.21. He that desires to know the particular history of Bologna, let him read Bartholomeo Galeotti, and Giovanni Garzo, where he shall find how Bologna suffered much anciently by the two opposite Factions of the Lambertazzi and the Geremei. But now they enjoy quiet and repose under the Pope.
Having thus seen Bologna, and being armed with a Bolettina diSanita,
