FAMIANUS, a very ingenious and learned Jesuit, was born at Rome in the latter end of the 16th century, and taught rhetoric there, in a public manner, for fifteen years. He wrote several pieces upon the art of oratory, and published some orations with a view of illustrating by example what he had inculcated by precept. But his Prolusiones Academicae and his Historia de Bello Belgico are the works which raised his reputation, and have preserved his memory. His history of the war of Flanders was published at Rome; the first decad in 1640, the second in 1647; the whole extending from the death of Charles V. which happened in 1558, to the year 1590. It is written in good Latin, as all allow; but its merit in other respects has been variously determined. His Prolusiones Academicae show great ingenuity, and a matterly skill in classical literature; that prolusion especially in which he introduces Lucan, Lucretius, Claudian, Ovid, Statius, and Virgil, each of them verifying according to his own strain. They have been often printed. We know not the year of Strada's birth or of his death.