DANTE (John Baptist), a native of Perugia, an excellent mathematician, called the new Dedalus, for the wings he made himself, and with which he flew several times over the lake Thrasymnus. He fell in one of his enterprises; the iron work with which he managed one of his wings having failed; by which accident he broke his thigh: but it was set by the surgeons, and he was afterwards called to Venice to profess mathematics.