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Narrow Escape.—­Andrea Boscoli, the Italian painter, studied after nature; and in his travels he drew sketches of any particular objects that struck him.  While pursuing this practice at Loretto, with regard to the fortifications of the city, he was seized by the officers of justice, and condemned to be hanged; but he happily escaped, within a few hours of execution, by the interposition of Signor Bandini, who explained to the chief magistrate his innocent intention.  P.T.W.

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Women alias Angels.—­Acidalius, the eminent grammarian and critic, whom Baillet reckons among his Enfans celebres, printed a small tract in 1595, intitled Mulieres non esse homines, or that “Women were not of the human species,” which was falsely ascribed to him.  He only accidently found the manuscript and printed it.  It is said, that in order to appease the wrath of some ladies, who reproached him as the author, he declared his opinion, that the author was a judicious person, the ladies being certainly more of the species of angels than of men.  P.T.W.

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