ARETINO, Francesco, a man of great learning, and well acquainted with the Greek language. He translated into Latin the Commentaries of St Chrysostom upon St John, and about twenty homilies of the same father; he also translated the Letters of Phalaris into Latin, and wrote a treatise De Balneis Putolani. He studied at Siena about the year 1443, and afterwards taught law there with such reputation that he was called the Prince of Subtleties. He taught also in the university of Pisa, and in that of Ferrara.