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Each one was obliged to publish some work on the subject to which

he had particularly applied himself. He added to this a college,

which he called Trilingue[32], for the study of the Greek, Latin,

and Italian languages; and a college of pupils, who were

instructed in these languages to become professors in their turn.

He united to these also a printing establishment for the Oriental

languages, for Hebrew, Chaldee, Arabic, Persian, and Armenian; a

gallery of pictures, and another of statues; and a school for the

three principal arts of design. For the latter, he was at no loss

to find professors; but this was not the case with regard to the

Eastern languages, which were at this time but little cultivated

in Europe. In the orders which he left for the government and

regulations of the library, we perceive a perpetual attention to

utility, admirable in itself, and much in advance of the ordinary

ideas of his time.