Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 by Various
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A second London edition of this work, of the date of 1748, is mentioned
in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for Jan. 1777. There is an edition in 12mo., printed at Edinburgh, 1761. And there is another London edition, in 8vo., of the year 1786. Copies of the editions of 1737 and 1786 are in the British Museum. 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 |
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