Filippo Argelati

After the publication of the first volume in 1723, dedicated to the Emperor Charles VI, that monarch assigned him a pension of three hundred ducats, with the honorary title of his Secretary.

the Medaglie Imperatorie of Francesco Mezzabarba Birago, with the addition of others from the Farnese Museum, and various notices drawn from the manuscripts of the author ; also the treatise De Antiquis Mediolani Ædificiis of Pietro Grazioli, 1736, folio ; the first edition of the Neutonianismo per le Dame by the Count Francesco Algarotti, 1737, 4º ; the Lettere Polemiche of Benedetto Bacchini, 1738, 4º ; the Thesaurus Novus Veterum Inscriptionum of Muratori, 1739, fol.

; the Storia di Trino of Giovanni Andrea Irico, 1745, 4º ; the Rime of Francesco Lorenzini, 1746, 8º ; De Antiquis Ecclesiæ Ritibus, by Edmond Martène ; several collections of poetry and other works.

His labours were highly serviceable to the cause of Italian literature : they display great intelligence, indefatigable industry, very considerable reading, and much bibliographical knowledge.

He was a member of several academies; of the Affidati of Pavia; the Arcadi of Rome, with the name of Dioneo Termeonio; the Gelati of Bologna, and of the Società Colombaria of Florence.

The only additional fact recorded of him is that in 1717, being one of the tribunes the people, he delivered a discourse to his successors upon the various points concerning them, which gave so much satisfaction that it was ordered to be inscribed among their acts.