son of the emperor Claudius by Messalina, was excluded from the empire after his father had married Agrippina; who, put her son Nero on the throne, and caused Britannicus to be poisoned A.D. 55.

Britannico, John, an eminent Italian scholar of the 15th century, was born in the Brescian territory, of a family originally from Britain. He published notes on Persius, Juvenal, Terence, Statius, and Ovid, with annotations on Pliny's Natural History, which last were published after his death. He died in 1510.