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  will be proper to make a few observations on the preceding Catalogue. It will be recollected, that Vergerio had made some free, or indeed caustic, animadversions on the first Catalogue, and on the personal character of della Casa, the professed author, as he was possibly of the succeeding, and even of the last, that which has just been given. For, although in 1554 he was generally resident in Rome, yet he remembered his residence and occupations in Venice, and doubtless kept up his old interest in the supervision of the press, particularly the censorship of heretical books. It is plain, from a careful inspection of the Catalogue under view, that, if his, he had not forgotten his old friend and instructor, the ex-bishop of Capo d'Istria. He takes politic care, however, to make his castigator as little conspicuous as possible. The notice is discovered by no sign but the addition of the contraction Verg. at the end of the article; a mark which would be overlooked by all who were not a little in the secret of the rancour felt by the compiler towards his reprover.