BERNARDINO, a distinguished mathematician and miscellaneous writer, was descended of a noble family at Urbino, in which city he was born on the 6th of June 1533. He pursued his studies at Padua with extraordinary zeal and success, and is said to have acquired, during the course of his life, no fewer than sixteen languages, though, according to Tiraboschi, the inscription on his tomb limits the number to twelve. The appearance of the plague at Padua obliged him to retire to his native city, where, some time afterwards, his acquirements were the means of his obtaining from Ferrante Gonzaga the rich abbey of Guastalla. He afterwards visited Rome, where he was honoured with the title of apostolic protonotary. Returning to Urbino, he was employed by the duke, in 1612, as his envoy to Venice, where he distinguished himself by the congratulatory oration he delivered before the Venetian senate on the election of the new doge, Andrea Memmo, who on this occasion presented Baldi with a massive gold chain. Shortly afterwards he resigned the cares of his abbey, and retired into a private station, but he did not long survive this event. He died at Urbino on the 12th of October 1617. Baldi was perhaps the most universal genius of his age, and is said to have written upwards of a hundred different works, the chief part of which have remained incited. His various works are evidence of his abilities as a theologian, canonist, mathematician, geographer, philosopher, antiquary, historian, orator, and poet. His life has been written by Afo, Mazzucchelli, and others. Baldi's Coronica dei Matematici is an abridgment of a larger work on which he had bestowed twelve years of labour, and which was intended to contain the lives of more than two hundred mathematicians.