Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

We learn from himself, in one of his dedications, that he resided for some time at Rome, and that in 1593 he was at Venice, an exile from his country, and in great distress, but he says nothing of a residence in France, where, if according to some, he had been educated, we cannot suppose he would have omitted so remarkable a circumstance in his history. He was a member of the academy of Venice, and died in 1600, at Montagnana, where he was the principal physician, and from which his corpse was brought for interment at Trevisa. He is the author of, 1. "Sententia quod Metaphysica sit eadem que Physica," Venice, 1584, 4to. This is a defence of Aristotle against Patrizi, who preferred Plato. Patrizi answered it, and Angelucci followed with, 2. "Exercitationum cum Patricio liber," Venice, 1585, 4to. 3. "Ars Medica, ex Hippocratis et Galeni thesauris potissimum deprompta," Venice, 1593, 4to, 4. "De natura et curatione maligna Febris," Venice, 1593, 4to. This was severely attacked by Donatelli de Castiglione, to whom Angelucci replied, in the same year, in a tract entitled "Bactria, quibus rudens quidam ac fal→ sus criminator valide repercutitur." 5. "Deus, canzone spirituale di Celio magno, &c. con due Lezioni di T. Angelucci," Venice, 1597, 4to. 6. "Capitolo in lode della pazzia," inserted by Garzoni, to whom it was addressed in his hospital of fools, "Ospitale de pazzi," Venice, 1586 and 1601. 7. "Eneide di Virgilio, tradotto in verso sciolto," Naples, 1649, 12mo. This, which is the only edition, is very scarce, and highly praised by the Italian critics, but some have attributed it to father Ignatio Angelucci, a Jesuit; others are of opinion that Ignatio left no work which can induce us to believe him capable of such a translation. 1 ANGELUS (CHRISTOPHER), a learned Greek of the seventeenth century, author of several learned and curious works, was born at Peloponnesus in Greece, and obliged by the Turks to abandon his country on account of his religion, for which he suffered a variety of torments. He came afterwards to England, where he was supported by the bishop of Norwich and several of the clergy. By this prelate's recommendation, he went to Cambridge, and studied about three years in Trinity college. In Whitsuntide 1610, hẹ removed to Oxford, and studied at Baliol college, where he did great service to the young scholars of the university,

Biog. Universelle.Haller et Manget. Bibl. Med.

by instructing them in the Greek language; in which manner he employed himself till his death, which happened on the 1st of February 1638. He was buried in St. Ebbe's

church or church-yard, Oxford.

To this brief account from Wood's Athenæ, we are now enabled to add many particulars, gleaned from his works by a learned correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine. It appears that he was a Greek Christian, a native of Pe loponnesus; that he travelled through Greece in quest of religious truth and instruction; and that when he came to Athens, the Turkish governor threw him into prison, and inflicted the severest cruelties upon him, because he would not abjure Christianity, and impeach the Athenian merchants, who then trafficked with Venice, of having sent him to betray Athens to the Spaniards; an impeachment solicited for the purpose of throwing odium on the Athenian Christians, and of enabling the governor to avenge himself for certain complaints they had preferred against him to the sublime Porte. These cruelties he survived; and having been released from prison on the intercession of some men of rank and influence, he escaped by the first conveyance to England. He landed at Yarmouth in 1608, and from the bishop (Dr. Jegon) and clergy of Norfolk, who contributed liberally to his relief, he received letters of recommendation to the heads of the university of Cambridge. After a year's residence there, he removed for the sake of his health to Oxford, where, in 1617, he published the story of his persecution at Athens, and of his kind reception in England, to which country and its inhabitants he subjoined a short address of panegyric. This work, which is in Greek and English, is entitled "Of the many stripes and torments inflicted on him by the Turks, for the faith which he had in Jesus Christ."

From Oxford next year he seems to have returned to Cambridge, as in 1619 he published "An Encomion of the famous kingdom of Great Britaine, and of the two flourishing sister universities of Cambridge and Oxford," also Greek and English. The Greek in this, as in his other writings, though not perfectly chaste, is elegant and perspicuous, and the spirit of composition becoming the genius of Greece, except perhaps in certain hyperboles of panegyric, which seem, however, to have sprung from the generous ardour of gratitude rather than from the base servility of adulation. His next work, the same year as the

above, and from the university-press, is a curious account of the rites and ceremonies of the Greek church. This is in Greek and Latin, "Enchiridion de institutis Græcorum.” Of this there were afterwards two editions by Fehlavius, Francfort, 1655, 12mo, and Leipsic, 1676, 4to. The former appears to have been the Latin only.

His fourth work, published at London, 1624, in Gr. and Lat. is entitled "Labor C. A. de Apostasia Ecclesiæ, et de Homine peccati, scilicet Antichristo, &c." The object is, in the first instance, to establish a distinction betwixt the apostacy and the man of sin in 2 Thess. ii. 3; to prove that the apostacy, predicted as necessary to take place before the coming of Antichrist, was fulfilled in the surrender of the temporal powers to pope Boniface by the emperor Phocas, and that Mahomet, who appeared within eleven years after, was the Antichrist; and lastly, to demonstrate, by some ingenious calculations, which are also applied to other subjects of prophecy, that the destruction of the last of the Mahomets, to all of whom he attaches the title of Antichrist, will happen in the year 1876.1

ANGERIANO (GIROLAMO), was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, of whose history we have no particulars. His poems, which are in Latin, were printed for the first time at Naples, 1520, 8vo, under the title of "De obitu Lydæ; de vero poeta; de Parthenope." His Egwlomaiyviov, which is a collection of love verses, dedicated notwithstanding to the archbishop of Bari, was reprinted at Paris in 15+2, 12mo, with the poetry of Marullus and Johannes Secundus, to both of whom, however, he is inferior. There was another edition in 1582, 12mo. Many of his works are also inserted in the "Carm. illust. Poet. Italorum." 2

ANGERVILE. See AUNGERVILLE.

ANGHIERA (PETER MARTYR D'), an Italian scholar, was born in 1455, at Arona, on the Lake Major. His family, one of the most illustrious in Milan, took the name of Anghiera, from the same lake, which is partly in the county of Anghiera. In 1477, he went to Rome, and entered into the service of the cardinal Ascanio Sforza Visconti, and afterwards into that of the archbishop of Milan. During a residence there of ten years, he formed an acquaintance with the most eminent literary men of his time, 1 Wood's Athenæ, vol. I.-Gent. Mag. vol. LXIV.

? Biog. Universelle.-Roscoe's Leo.

[ocr errors]

and among others, with Pomponio Leto. In 1487, he went into Spain in the suite of the ambassador of that court, who was returning home. By him he was presented to Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen, and served in two campaigns, but quitted the army for the church, and was appointed by the queen to teach the belles lettres to the young men of the court, in which employment he continued for some time. Having on various occasions shown a capacity for political business, Ferdinand, in 1501, employed him on an errand of considerable delicacy, to the sultan of Egypt, in which he acquitted himself greatly to his majesty's satisfaction. While engaged in this business, he took the opportunity of visiting some part of Egypt, particularly the pyramids, and returned to Spain in the month of August 1502. From this time he became attached to the court, and was appointed a member of the council for the affairs of India. The pope, at the king's request, made him apostolical prothonotary, and in 1505, prior of the church of Grenada, with a valuable benefice. After the death of Ferdinand, Anghiera remained as much in favour with the new king, and he also was presented by Charles V. to a rich abbey. He died at Grenada in 1526, leaving several historical works, which are often quoted by the name of Peter Martyr, as if that were his family name; and in the Dict. Hist. he is recorded under Martyr. His principal works are, 1. "Opus Epistolarum Petri Martyris Anglerii, Mediolanensis," 1530, fol. reprinted more correctly in Holland by Elzevir, 1670, fol. with the letters and other works, Latin and Spanish, of Ferdinand de Pulgar. This work, which is much esteemed, is divided into thirty-eight books, comprehending the whole of his political life from 1488 to 1525, and contains many curious historical particulars not to be found elsewhere. 2. “De rebus Oceanicis et orbe novo Decades," a history of the discovery of the New World, compiled from the manuscripts of Columbus, and the accounts he sent to Spain to the India council, of which our author was a member. These Decades were at first printed separately: the first edition of the whole is that of Paris, 1536, fol. which has been often reprinted. 3. "De insulis nuper inventis et incolarum moribus," Basil, 1521, 4to, 1533, fol. 4. "De legatione Babylonica, libri tres," printed with the Decades, which contains an account of his embassy to the sultan of Egypt. Some other

works, but rather on doubtful authority, have been attributed to him.1

ANGILBERT (ST.), abbot of Centula, or St. Riquier, in the ninth century, was descended from a noble family of Neustria. He was educated at the court of Charlemagne, where he studied the languages with that prince and the other courtiers, under the learned Alcuinus, who afterwards considered him as his son. Charlemagne, having caused his son Pepin to be crowned king of Italy, made Angilbert that prince's first minister: he then went with him into Italy, and returned some years after to France, when Charlemagne gave him his daughter Bertha in marriage; but some historians say that this marriage was rendered necessary by the lady's being delivered previously of twins. Whatever truth may be in this, Angilbert, being now sonin-law to Charlemagne, was made duke or governor of the coast of France from the Scheldt to the Seine, and the king also made him his secretary and prime minister; but Alcuinus, abbot of Corbie, prevailed on him to become a monk in the monastery of Centula, or St. Riquier, with the consent both of his wife and the king. Notwithstanding his love of solitude, he was frequently obliged to leave the monastery, and attend to the affairs of the church and state, and was three times sent to the court of Rome; he also accompanied Charlemagne thither, in the year 800, when that prince was crowned in that city emperor of the West. He died on the 18th of February 814. Angilbert had such a taste for poetry, that Charlemagne called him his Homer. There are but few of his works remaining, except a history of his monastery, which Mabillon has inserted in his "Annales de l'ordre de St. Benoit." As to the "Histoire de premieres expeditions de Charlemagne pendant sa jeunesse et avant son regne," 1741, 8vo, with the title of Homer, given him by Charlemagne, either because he delighted in that poet, or because he was himself a poet; it is in fact a romance written by Dufresne de Francheville."

ANGIOLELLÓ (JOHN MARIO), who was born at Vicenza, composed in Italian and the Turkish language the "History of Mahomet II." which he dedicated to him. It was very kindly received by that haughty sultan, who, be

1 Biog. Universelle.-Dict. Hist. under Martyr.-Cave, vol. II.-Fabricii Bibl. Lat. Med. Saxii Onomasticon.-Chaufepie, under Martyr.

2 Biog. Universelle. Dict. Hist.

« ZurückWeiter »