There are two French translations of the work. One is of the date 1746, under the title of _Mémoires de Gaudentio di Lucca_. The second, of 1754, by M. Dupuy Demportes, speaks of the first having been made by an Englishman named _Milts_; but the person and name appear to be fictitious. The first translation is said by Barbier, _Dict. des Anonymes_, No. 11,409, to have been revised by the Chevalier de Saint Germain, who made additions to it of his own invention. The second translation is reprinted in the collection of _Voyages Imaginaires_, Amsterdam et Paris, 1787, tom. vi. An anonymous writer in the _Gent. Mag._ for Jan. 1777, vol. xlvii., p. 13., speaking of Bishop Berkeley, says that "the _Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca_ have been generally attributed to him." The writer of the note added to the _Life of Berkeley_ in Kippis's _Biogr. Brit._, 1780, vol. ii. p. 261., quotes this statement, and adds that the work is ascribed to him by the booksellers in their printed catalogues. This writer thinks that the authorship of Bp. Berkeley is consistent with the internal evidence of the book but he furnishes no positive testimony on the subject. {299} In a letter from Mr. J.C. Walker to Mr. Pinkerton, of 19 Jan., 1799 (published in Pinkerton's _Literary Correspondence_, vol. ii., p. 41.), Lord Charlemont is referred to as believing that Gaudentio di Lucca is founded in fact; that Bishop Berkeley, when he was at Cairo, conversed with persons who had attended a caravan, and that he learned from them what he narrated in the account of Gaudentio. This passage is cited in Southey's _Common-place Book_, p. 204; but the work is manifestly fictitious, and it does not appear that Berkeley, though he twice visited the Continent, was ever out of Europe. The date of the publication of Gaudentio is quite consistent with the authorship of Berkeley, who died in 1753; but the notice in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ only proves the existence of a rumour to that effect; and the authentic _Life of Berkeley_, by Dr. Stock, chiefly drawn up from materials communicated by Dr. R. Berkeley, brother to the Bishop, and prefixed to the collected edition of his work (2 vols. 4to. Lond., 1784), makes no allusion to Gaudentio. There is nothing in the contents of this work which renders it likely that the authorship should have been carefully concealed by Bp. Berkeley and his family, if he had really been the author. The literary execution of Gaudentio is good; and it is probable that the speculative character of the work, and the fact that Berkeley had visited Italy, suggested the idea that he had composed it. The belief that Bishop Berkeley was the author of _Gaudentio di Lucca_ may therefore be considered as unauthorised. The copy of the edition of _Gaudentio_ of 1786, which is preserved in the British Museum, contains in the title-page the following note, in pencil: "Written originally in English by Dr. Swale of Huntingdon. See _Gent. Mag._ 1786."