MANUTIUS, PAULUS, son of the former, was brought up to his father's profession. He was more learned than he; and he acquired, by continual reading of Tully, such a purity in writing Latin, as even Scaliger allows a Roman could not exceed. Pope Pius IV. placed him at the head of the apostolical press, and gave him the charge of the Vatican library. His Epistles are infinitely laboured, and very correct; but, as may be said of most of the Ciceronians, they contain scarcely any thing but mere words. This constant reading of Tully, however, together with his profound knowledge of antiquity, qualified him extremely well for an editor of Tully; whose works he accordingly published, with Commentaries on them, in 4 vols folio, at Venice in 1523. He died in 1574.