GIROLAMO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, and CORNELIO, three celebrated Latin poets of Italy, who flourished in the sixteenth century. Their compositions were printed at Venice in 1627, and at Amsterdam in 1684. One of the prettiest pieces in that collection is an epigram, by Girolamo, on two children of extraordinary beauty, each of whom was deprived of an eye:

Lumine Acon dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro; Et polis est formâ vincere uterque Deos. Parve puer, lumen quod habes concedo sorori; Sic tu excaus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.

Pomposio, an excellent painter of the second, or most brilliant epoch of the Venetian school, a pupil of Pordenone, distinguished for his correct design, as well as for his skill in colouring. He was born in 1505, and died in 1588.—See Zanetti, and Lanzi, tom. iii.