(Baptist), a famous Italian poet, born at Mantua in 1448. He took his name from the town; not having a right to that of his father, as being a natural son. In his youth, he applied himself to Latin poetry, which he cultivated all his life; for it does not appear that he wrote any thing in Italian. He entered among the Carmelites, and became general of the order; though he quitted that dignity upon some disgust in 1515, and died the year following. The duke of Mantua, some years after, erected a marble statue to his memory crowned with laurel, and placed it next to Virgil. His works were collected and published at Paris in three volumes folio in 1513, with the commentaries of St Murrhon, S. Brant, and I. Badius.