ALEANDRO, Geromino, grand-nephew of the former, a jurist, antiquarian, and poet, was born at Motta, near Friuli, in 1574. He was long employed as secretary to Cardinal Ottavio Bandini, and afterwards to Cardinal Barberini, in whose service he died, at Rome, in 1629. He was one of the first members of the Academy of Humourists, wrote a learned treatise in Italian on the device of the society, and displayed his genius on many different subjects. Barberini gave him a magnificent funeral at the Academy of Humourists.
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