[619] Jacques Spon (1647-1685), a French Protestant physician and antiquary, visited Italy, Greece and the Levant, about 1675, and left a record of his travels, besides other works. He left France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and died soon after at Vevey.—T.
[620] François Maximilien Misson (d. 1722), another Protestant writer, took refuge in England, in 1685, and there had charge of the education of a young nobleman with whom he had been travelling in Germany and Italy. His Nouveau voyage en Italie (1691-1698) is on the Index. A later edition (1722) is enriched with notes by Addison.—T.
[621] Jean Dumont, Baron von Carlskron (circa 1660-1726), a distinguished publicist, travelled all over Europe. The work from which the following quotation is taken is his Voyages en France, en Italie, en Allemagne, à Malte et en Turquie (1699). The Emperor of Germany made him his historiographer and a baron.—T.
[622] Joseph Addison (1672-1719) prepared himself for the diplomatic service by travel and study on the Continent (1699-1703). His works included a Letter from Italy in verse, written as he was crossing the Alps in 1701 and published in 1703, and Remarks on several Parts of Italy (1705). His tragedy of Cato was also written in Italy.—T.
[623] Now in the Louvre in Paris.—T.
[624] Now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.—T.
[625] Now in the Vatican.—T.
[626] Now in the Atrio Quadrato, leading out of the Belvedere Gallery.—T.
[627] Anglicè in the original.—T.
[628] Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), the famous French poet and academician (1684).—T.