or CALENTIUS, Eliseo, a Latin poet and prose writer of the fifteenth century, born at Puglia in the kingdom of Naples. He was preceptor to prince Federigo, son of Fernando I., king of Naples, and was connected by ties of friendship with Sannazarius, Attilio, and other eminent scholars of that period. He seems to have anticipated many of the later improvements in penal legislation, and was the earliest writer against capital punishment except for murder. He died in 1503. There have been three editions of his works, two at Rome (one in 1503, folio), and the third at Basle, 1554.