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BONFINI

Volume 4 · 112 words · 1842 Edition

Anthony, a Latin historian of the fifteenth century, was born at Ascoli, in Marches of Ancona, in December 1427, and attached himself to the study of history and the belles lettres. Matthias Corvin, king of Hungary, having heard of his learning, sent for him, retained him, and settled upon him a pension. He died in 1202, at the age of seventy-five. His works are, 1. Rerum Ungaricarum decadestres, Basil, 1545, folio; 2. Flavii Philostrati Lemni Libri II. de Vitis Sopitarum, 1516, 4to; 3. Her-ogensis Libri de Arte Rhetorica et Aphthoni Sophista Pro-gymnastica, Lyons, 1538; 4. In Horatium Flaccum Commentarii, Rome, without date, 4to; and, 5. Symposium Beatricis, Basil, 1572 and 1621, 8vo.