Publio Fausto, born at Forli in Italy. He was a long time professor of poetry and philosophy in the university of Paris. Louis XII. of France made him his poet laureate, and Erasmus tells us that he was likewise poet to the queen. His pen was not wholly employed in mak- ing verses, for he wrote also moral and proverbial letters in prose, which were printed several times. Some of his poems, which are chiefly in Latin, are inserted in vol. i. of the De- licia Poetarum Italorum. He died in 1518.