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FOGLIETA

Volume 4 · 59 words · 1778 Edition

(Oberto or Hubert), a Genoese priest, and one of the most learned writers of the 16th century. He had a share in the disturbances that were raised at Genoa; for which he was banished, and died at Rome in 1581, aged 63. He wrote a history of Genoa in Italian, which is highly esteemed; and many works in Latin.