tura del cerchio. Milan, 1855 or
1856, 8vo.

Il Mediterraneo gazetta di Malta, 26 Decembre 1855, No. 909: also 911,
912, 913, 914, 936, 939.

The Malta Times, Tuesday, 9th June 1857.

Misura esatta del cerchio, dal Rev. D. Anghera. Malta, 1857, 12mo.

Quadrature of the circle ... by the Rev. D. Anghera, Archpriest of St.
Vito. Malta, 1858, 12mo.

I have looked for St. Vitus in catalogues of saints, but never found his
legend, though he figures as a day-mark in the oldest almanacs. He must be
properly accredited, since he was an archpriest. And I pronounce and
ordain, by right accruing from the trouble I have taken in this subject,
that he, St. Vitus, who leads his votaries a never-ending and unmeaning
dance, shall henceforth be held and taken to be the patron saint of the
circle-squarer. His day is the 15th of June, which is also that of St.
Modestus,[129] with whom the said circle-squarer often has nothing to do.
And he must not put himself under the first saint with a slantendicular
reference to the other, as is much to be feared was done by the Cardinal
who came to govern England with a title containing St. Pudentiana,[130] who
shares a day with _St. Dunstan_. The Archpriest of St. Vitus will have it
that the square inscribed in a semicircle is half of the semicircle, or the
circumference 3-1/5 diameters. He is active and able, with {62} nothing
wrong about him except his paradoxes. In the second tract named he has
given the testimonials of crowned heads and ministers, etc. as follows.
Louis-Napoleon gives thanks. The minister at Turin refers it to the Academy
of Sciences, and hopes so much labor will be judged _degna di pregio_.[131]
The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford--a blunt Englishman--begs to say that the
University has never proposed the problem, as some affirm. The Prince
Regent of Baden has received the work with lively interest. The Academy of
Vienna is not in a position to enter into the question. The Academy of
Turin offers the most _distinct_ thanks. The Academy della Crusca attends
only to literature, but gives thanks. The Queen of Spain has received the
work with the highest appreciation. The University of Salamanca gives
infinite thanks, and feels true satisfaction in having the book. Lord
Palmerston gives thanks, by the hand of "William San." The Viceroy of
Egypt, not being yet up in Italian, will spend his first moments of leisure
in studying the book, when it shall have be