ADRIANI

ADRIANI, JOANNI BATTISTA, was born of a pa-
trician family at Florence in 1511. He wrote a Hi-
story of his own Times in Italian; which is a continua-
tion of Guicciardini, beginning at the year 1536;
to which Thuanus acknowledges himself greatly in-
debted: besides which, he composed six funeral ora-
tions,

tions, on the emperor Charles V. and other noble personages; and is thought to have been the author of a long letter on ancient painters and sculptors, prefixed to the third volume of Vasari. He died at Florence in 1579.