FABIO, a very learned botanist, born at Naples about the year 1567. He became skilled in the languages, in music, designing, painting, and the mathematics; and died about the middle of the 17th century. He wrote, 1. Φυταγραφια, seu Plantarum aliquot (ac piscium) historia. 2. Minus cognitarum rariorumque stirpium reperies; itemque de aquatilibus, alisque nonnullis animalibus, libellus; and other works.