Letter 3775

Passionei received Sloane’s letter and the books he procured for him. Mr Sardi, the banker at Amsterdam, arranged their transport. Passionei was pleased to receive the Natural History of Jamaica, which he sent to his library in Rome. He is thinking of publishing a catalogue of his collection, which includes eighteen thousand volumes. Passionei sends a print of an ancient theatre. He wants to reprint the works of Cardinal Noris in three volumes. The librarian to the Emperor ‘Monsieur le Chevalier Garelli’ is to send Passionei a book on a Neapolitan scholar who explained an inscription found in his country. It contains an order of the Senate of Rome against the Bacchanalia. Passionei requests that Sloane forward some books to Mr Hearne. Domenico Silvio Passionei (1682-1761) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Innocent XIII made him Archbishop of Ephesos and between 1730 and 1738 he was Nuncio in Vienna. Passionei served as Librarian of the Vatican (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Silvio_Passionei).