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MAFF

Volume 10 · 72 words · 1797 Edition

MAFFÆUS (Vegio), a Latin poet, born in Lombardy in 1407, was greatly admired in his time. He wrote epigrams, and a humorous supplement to Virgil, which he called The thirteenth book of the Aeneid; this was as humorously translated into English a few years since by Mr Ellis. Maffæus wrote also some prose works. He was chancellor of Rome towards the end of the pontificate of Martin V.; and died in 1458.