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In 1575, the cardinal Ferdinand de Medicis, who was afterwards grand duke, took Angelio to Rome with him, settled a large pension on him, and by other princely marks of favour, induced him to reside there, and encouraged him to complete a poem, which he had begun thirty years before, on the conquest of Syria and Palestine by the Christians. Angelio caused all his poems to be reprinted at Rome in 1585, and dedicated to this cardinal, who rewarded him by a present of two thousand florins of gold. When he became grand duke, Angelio followed him to Florence, and there at length published his "Syrias." He was now enriched by other pensions, and was enabled to pass his declining years, mostly at Pisa, in opulence and ease. He died Feb. 29, 1596, in his seventy-ninth year, and was interred in the Campo Santo, with great pomp; and a funeral oration was read in the academy of Florence, and, what was still a higher honour, as he was not a member, in that of Della Crusca.

Angelio's published works are, 1. Three Funeral Orations," in Latin, one on Henry II. of France, read at Florence in 1559, the second on the grand duke Cosmo, at Pisa in 1574, and the third on the grand duke Ferdinand, his liberal patron, at Florence, 1587. 2. "De ordine legendi scriptores Historiæ Romanæ," twice printed separately, and inserted in Grotius "De studiis instituendis." 3. "Poemata varia, diligenter ab ipso recognita," Rome, 1585, 4to. This collection, the greater part of which had been printed separately, contains the poem on which his reputation is chiefly founded, the "Cynegeticon," or the Chase, in six books; and the "Syrias," in twelve books, on the same subject as Tasso's "Jerusalem delivered." 4. "De privatorum publicorumque urbis Romæ eversoribus epistola," Florence, 1589, 4to, printed since in the 4th volume of the "Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum." 5. "Poesie Toscane," published with a translation of the Edipus of Sophocles, Florence, 1589, 8vo. 6. Letters in Latin and Italian in various collections. 7. "Memoirs of his life," written by himself, and published by Salvini int the "Fasti Consolari" of the academy of Florence, and abridged in the present article. '

ANGELIS (DOMINICO DE), author of several pieces relating to the history of literature, was born the 14th of

1 Biog. Universelle.-Moreri.

October 1675, at Lecce, the capital of Otranto in the kingdom of Naples, of one of the noblest and most considerable families in that city. He began his studies at Lecce, and at seventeen years of age went to finish them at Naples, where he applied very closely to the Greek language and geometry. He went afterwards to Macerata, where he was admitted LL. D. His desire of improvement induced him also to travel into France and Spain, where he acquired great reputation. Several academies of Italy were ambitious of procuring him as a member, in consequence of which we find his name not only amongst those of the Transformati and Spioni of Lecce, but also in that of the Investiganti of Naples, in the academy of Florence, and in that of the Arcadians at Rome, into the last of which he was admitted the 8th of August 1698. He went into orders very early, and was afterwards canon and grand penitentiary of the church of Lecce, vicar general of Viesti, Gallipoli, and Gragnano, first chaplain of the troops of the kingdom of Naples and of the pope, auditor of M. Nicholas Negroni, and afterwards of the cardinal his uncle. Whilst Philip V. of Spain was master of the kingdom of Naples, he was honoured with the title of principal historiographer, which had likewise been given him when he was in France, by Louis XIV.; and he afterwards became secretary to the duke of Gravina. He died at Lecce the 9th of August 1719, and was interred in the cathedral of that city; or, according to another authority, Aug. 7, 1718.

His works are, 1. "Dissertazione intorna alla patria di Eunio," Rome, 1701, Florence in the title, but really at Naples, 1712. In this he endeavours to prove that Ennius was born at Rudia, two miles from Lecce, and not Rudia near Tarento. 2. "Vita di monsignor Roberto Caracciolo vescovo d'Aquino e di Lecce, 1703." 3. "Della vita di Scipione Ammirato, patrizio Leccese, libri tre," Lecce, 1706. 4." Vita di Antonio Caraccio da Nardo." 5. "Vita di Andrea Peschiulli da Corigliano." These two are not printed separately, but in a collection entitled "Vite de' Letterati Salentini." 6. "Vita di Giacomo Antonio Ferrari," Lecce, 1715. 7. "Vita di Giorgio Baglivo," Leccese. 8. "Lettera discorsiva al March. Giovani Gioseffo Orsi, dove si tratto dell' origine e progressi de signori accademici Spioni, e delle varie loro lodevoli applicazioni," Lecce, 1705, 8vo. 9. "Discorso historico, in cui si tratta dell' origine e delle fondazione della citta di Lecce e d'Al

cune migliori e piu principali notizie di essa," Lecce, 1705. 10. "Le Vite de letterati Salentini, parte I." The Lives of the learned men of Terra d'Otranto, part I. Florence in the title, but really Naples, 1710. The second part was published at Naples, 1713, in 4to. 11. "Orazione funebre recitata in occasione della morte dell' imperadore Giuseppe nel vescoval domo di Gallipoli," Naples, 1716. 12. Scritto istorico legale sopra le ragioni della suspensioni del' interdetto locale generale della chiefa di Lecce e sua diocesi," Rome, 1716. 13. "Tre lettere legale." These three letters were written in defence of the right of the church of Lecce. 14. He wrote likewise several poems, particularly seven sonnets, which are published in the second part of the "Rimo scelte del sign. Bartolommeo Lippi," printed at Lucca, 1719.1

ANGELIS (PETER), a painter of considerable note in the last century, was born at Dunkirk in 1685, and visiting Flanders and Germany in the course of his studies, made the longest stay at Dusseldorpe, enchanted with the treasures of painting in that eity. He came to England about the year 1712, and soon became a favourite painter; but in the year 1728, he set out for Italy, where he spent three years. At Rome his pictures gave great satisfaction, but being of a reserved temper, and not ostentatious of his merit, he disgusted several by the reluctance with which he exhibited his works; his studious and sober temper inclining him more to the pursuit of his art than to the advantage of his fortune. Yet his attention to the latter prevented his returning to England, as he intended; for, stopping at Rennes in Bretagne, a rich and parliamentary town, he was so immediately overwhelined with employment there, that he settled in that city, and died there in a short time, in 1734, when he was not above forty-nine years of age. He executed conversations and landscapes with small figures, which he was fond of enriching with representations of fruit and fish. His manner was a mixturė of Teniers and Watteau, with more grace than the former, and more nature than the latter. His pencil was easy, bright, and flowing, but his colouring too faint and nervel less. He afterwards adopted the habits of Rubens and Vandyck, more picturesque indeed, but not so proper to

1 Gen. Dict.-Biographie Universelle.

improve his productions in what their chief beauty consisted, familiar life. '

ANGELIS (STEPHEN DE), an Italian mathematician, was educated under Bonaventure Cavalieri, the most eminent Italian scholar in that science in the seventeenth century. He was at first a Jesuit, but that order being suppressed in 1668, he applied closely to the study of mathematics, and taught at Padua with great success, publishing various works, and carrying on a controversy on the opinions of Copernicus with Riccioli and others. Moreri, from a manuscript account of the learned men of Italy, written by father Poisson, gives a numerous list of his publications, some of which were in Latin, and some in Italian. We have only seen his "Miscellaneum hyperbolicum et parabolicum," Venice, 1659, 4to, and "Della gravita dell' Aria e Fluidi, Dialogi V." Padua, 1671—2, 4to. His controversy on Copernicus was begun in " Considerazioni sopra la forza d'alcune cagioni fisiche matematiche addote dal Pad. Riccioli, &c." Venice, 1667, 4to, and continued in a second, third, and fourth part, 1668-9, 4to. 2

See BUONAROTI--CARAVAGIO-

ANGELO. CAMPIDOGLIO.

ANGELO, ANGELICO, or ANGIOLI (JAMES), a Florentine writer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, was born at Scarperia, in the valley of Mugello, and studied under John de Ravenna, Vargerius, Scala, Poggio, and other learned men. After studying mathematics for some time, he went to Constantinople, where he resided nine years, and whence he sent a great number of letters to Emmanuel Chrysoloras at Florence. Here likewise he had an opportunity of studying the Greek language, and ac-. quired such an accurate knowledge of it as to attempt various translations. On his return he went to Rome, and was a candidate for the place of the pope's secretary, which at that time Leonard d'Arezzo obtained, but Angelo appears to have held the office in 1410. From this time we have no account of him, except that he is said to have died in the prime of life. He translated from Greek into Latin, 1. "Cosmographiæ Ptolomæi, lib. VIII." 2. "Ptolomæi quadripartitum." 3. "Ciceronis vita," from Plutarch. 4. The lives of Pompey, Brutus, Marius, and Julius Cæsar,

Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.

? Moreri. Haym's Biblioteca Italiana.

also from Plutarch, but not printed. There is likewise a work entitled "Jacobi Angeli historica narratio de vita, rebusque gestis M. Tullii Ciceronis," Wirtemberg, 1564, Berlin, 1581 and 1587, which Fabricius, in his Bibl. Lat. Med. Ev. says is a different work from the translation from Plutarch. 1

ANGELONI (FRANCIS), a learned antiquary of the seventeenth century, was born at Terni, in the duchy of Spalatto, and became secretary to the cardinal Hippolito Aldobrandini, and apostolic prothonotary. He was also a member of the academy of the Insensati at Perugia, and made so extensive a collection of curiosities of art of every kind, that it was thought worthy of the name of the Roman museum. The marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani engaged Angeloni to publish his series of imperial medals, which accordingly appeared under the title "L'Istoria Augusta da Giulio Cesare Costatino il magno," Rome, 1641, dedicated to Louis XIII. As he was considerably advanced in age, when he undertook this work, many defects were found, and pointed out with some severity, which induced him to prepare a new, enlarged, and corrected edition, but this he did not live to finish, dying Nov. 29, 1652. It was at length published by J. P. Bellori, his maternal nephew, in 1685, fol. Rome, enriched with additional plates and the reverses of the medals which Angeloni had neglected, and which, his own collection being now sold and dispersed, were taken from the museum of Christina, queen of Sweden. Angeloni published also the history of his native country, "Storia di Terni," Rome, 1646, 4to, and 1685, with a portrait of the author; and wrote some letters and dramatic pieces, not in much estimation.

ANGELUCCI (THEODORE), in Latin ANGELUTIUS, an Italian poet and physician, who flourished about the end of the sixteenth century, was born at Belforte, a castle near Tolentino, in the march of Ancona. He was a phy-sician by profession, and, on account of his successful practice, was chosen a citizen of Trevisa, and some other towns. He acquired also considerable reputation by a literary controversy with Francis Patrizi, respecting Aristotle. Some writers inform us that he had been one of the professors of Padua, but Riccoboni, Tomasini, and Papadopoli, the historians of that university, make no mention of him, 1 Marchand Dict. Hist.-Biog. Universelle.-Saxii Onomasticon. 2 Biog. Universelle.-Dict. Hist.

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