This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 Excerpt:...of his sovereign, and died there in 1596. He left a considerable number of works, prose and verse, in Italian and Latin; but it is to the latter that he is chiefly indebted for his reputation. He published five books of miscellaneous Latin poems, among which are some elegies, in which he has happily imitated the style of Catullus: Also, 4 Cynegeticon," or the Chace, in six books, first printed in 1568, a poem said to be the labour of twenty years, and reckoned among the best products of modern Latinity, and greatly praised by Lambin, De Thou, and Possevin. He intended to have subjoined to this a poem on fowling, of which,' however, he only published the first book. In his old age he composed " Syrias," an epic poem in twelve books, on the expedition of Godfrey of Bouillon to the Holy-land; which subject was at that very time in the hands of Tasso. This work did not receive his last finish, and, though elegant, has not the majesty required for such a theme. Tiraboschi. Morerl.--A. ANGELONI, Francis, an historian and antiquary of the seventeenth century, was the author of an illustration of the Roman history by medals, published at Rome in folio, in the year 1685, under the title of " Histoire Auguste par les Medailles, depuis Jules Cesar jusqu'a Constantin le Grand." He also wrote, "A History of Terni," his native country, printed in 4to. at Rome, in 1646. This writer died at Rome in 1652. Nouv. Diet. Hist.--E. ANGIOLELLO, John Maria, an historian, was a native of Vicenza, and flourished towards the latter end of the sixteenth century. Having been a slave under the young sultan Mustapha, he followed him, in the year 1573, into Persia, in the dreadful war which Mahomet II. made in person with near two hundred thousand men, i...