(Gabriel), a native of Cremona in Italy, was an excellent Latin poet and critic of the 16th century. He was so skilled in all parts of polite literature, that the cardinal de Medicis, afterward Pope Pius IV. was particularly fond of him. He was the author of some Latin elegies; of 100 Latin fables, selected from the ancients, written in iambic verse; and of several pieces of criticism, as Confusa evendationum Livianarum, De Metris Comicis, &c. He was remarkably happy in deciphering manuscripts, and restoring ancient authors to their purity: he took such pains with Terence in particular, that Bentley has adopted all his notes in the edition he gave of that writer. He died at Rome in 1561; and Thuanus, who wrote his eulogy, says, that the learned world was greatly obliged to him, yet had been still more so, if, instead of suppressing the then unknown fables of Phædrus, for fear of lessening the value of his own Latin fables, written in imitation of Æsop, he had been content with imitating them. M. Perault, however, who translated Faernus's fables into French, has defended him from this imputation, by affirming that the first MS. of Phædrus's fables, found in the dust of an old library, was not discovered till about 30 years after Faernus's death.