JASON de, a scholar, poet, and philosopher, was born at Nicofia in Cyprus. He lost his fortune when the Turks made themselves masters of that island in 1570. He retired to Padua; where he acquired great reputation by teaching moral philosophy. His character had that cast of severity which is often the consequence of scholastic habits. He was one of those men who discuss every thing without being capable of feeling anything. The Pastor Fido of Guarini made its appearance; and pastorals became a fashionable species of reading throughout all Italy. Nores, who did not relish works of this kind, attacked the production of Guarini; who entirely confuted him in a little piece printed at Ferrara in 1588. Nores made a reply two years after; and the poet was preparing an answer still more severe than the former, when his antagonist died of grief, occasioned by the banishment of his only son for having killed a Venetian in a duel. He left behind him a great many works, some in Italian, and others in Latin. The chief of his Italian works, are, 1. The Poeticks, Padua, 1588, 4to; this edition is rare. 2. A Treatise on Republics, 1578, 4to; which he forms on the model of that of the Venetians, his masters. 3. A Treatise on the World and its Parts, Venice, 1571, 8vo. 4. Introduction to three books of Aristotle's Rhetoric, Venice, 1584, 4to, valuable. 5. A Treatise on what Comedy, Tragedy, and Epic Poetry, may receive from Moral Philosophy. His Latin works are, 1. Influentio in Philosophiam Ciceronis, Padua, 1576, 8vo. 2. Brevius et distincta summa praecipitorum de arte discendi, ex libris Ciceronis collecta, Venice, 1553, 8vo; a good work. 3. De Constitutione partium humanae et civilis philosophiae, 4to. 4. Interpretatio in artem poeticae Horatii, &c. In all his works we remark great perspicuity and accuracy, profound erudition, happy expressions, an elevated and sometimes forcible style.—His son Peter Nores, successively secretary to several cardinals, at once a man of letters and a man of business, left behind him different manuscripts; among others, the life of Paul IV. in Italian.