AMALTEO, GIROLAMO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, and CORNELIO, three celebrated Latin poets of Italy, who flourished in the sixteenth century. Their compositions were printed at Venice in 1627, and at Amsterdam in 1684. One of the prettiest pieces in that collection is an epigram, by Girolamo, on two children of extraordinary beauty, each of whom was deprived of an eye:
Lumine Acon dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro:
Et potis est formâ vincere uterque Deos.
Parve puer, lumen quod habes concède sorori;
Sic tu cæcus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.