I married a lady of Gallipoli, of a good family and an agreeable disposition; and there I fixed myself, with some application to books, but more to pleasure. “Having obtained a more comfortable provision from my father, I came with my wife to Rome, and after remaining there a year and a half, returned to Gallipoli for another year, and then fixed myself at Rome. Here I have continued to study, and took a fancy to architecture without being able to draw. Enamoured of this art, which I think the most beautiful, and most useful of all, I wrote the _Lives of the most celebrated Architects_, which was well received by the public, though the criticisms were severe and the style unpolished. “After this I translated the article, _Bleeding_, from the Encyclopædia, and gave a trimming to the physicians and to medicine. Afterwards, I compiled the _Elements of pure Mathematics, according to the Abbé de la Caille_, for my own improvement, and it was printed at Rome at the instance of some of my friends. I then wrote other works, and shall continue writing as long as I live. A treatise on the stage was much controverted at Rome. When I conceived that I had made some progress in my architectural studies, I wrote with a degree of _bravura_, the _Elements of Civil Architecture_, which has been reprinted many times. My _Art of seeing in the Fine Arts_ is a little book which made some noise in the world, and particularly displeased the stupid adorers of Buonarroti. In compliance afterwards with the wishes of a distinguished friend (Cav. Zulian, ambassador of the republic of Venice at Rome), I undertook to write a work to point out the beauties and deformities of ancient and modern Rome; and I published the first part with the title of _Roma delle belle Arti del Disegno_; but the persecution of ignorant professors rendered it necessary to suspend the second and third. After this work I attached myself to natural history, and wrote a great deal on plants and animals, without printing anything, except the translation of Bowles’s _Introduction to the Natural History and Physical Geography of Spain_, which was published at Parma. After this, Bailly’s _History of Ancient and Modern Astronomy_ came into my hands, and I made an abridgment of it in one volume in octavo. The Encyclopædia Methodica furnished me with the means of making a _Pocket Dictionary of the Fine Arts_, published in two volumes. The article, _Engraving_, in this dictionary, was also printed separately, with some additions. In compliance with the wish of my illustrious friend the Cav. D. Nicola de Azara, I exerted myself considerably in the compilation of the works of Mengs. I have now completed a Dictionary of Domestic Medicine, on the plan of that of W. Buchan, a Scotch physician, which, if printed, will make two volumes in octavo, and will be intelligible to everybody. Another little work on political economy is now in the press; a subject to which I have attached myself, in spite of the unsuitable