a learned Italian, of the order of hermits of St Augustine, was born of a noble family at Verona, in 1529; and, being trained to literature, became so indefatigable in his studies, that he spent whole days and nights in reading the ancients: which made Manutius style him Helluo Antiquitatis. His first performance was A Chronicle of Popes and Cardinals, which was printed without his knowledge at Venice in 1557; and some time after, more correctly by himself. He afterwards continued Platina's Lives of the Popes, from Sextus IV. to Pius V. and subjoined annotations to the lives Platina had written. He also wrote four pieces upon Roman Antiquities, which are printed in Graevius's Collection. He died in his 39th year, in 1568.