Simone, called Simone da Pesaro, a celebrated painter and engraver, born at Pesaro in 1612. He was a disciple of Guido, and a fellow student of Domenichino and Albano. The irritability of his temper was extreme; and it is said that his death, which took place at Verona in 1648, was occasioned by chagrin at his failure in a portrait of the Duke of Mantua. Others relate that he was poisoned by a Mantuan painter whom he had injured. His pictures, though masterly and spirited, are deficient in originality. Some of his works have even been mistaken for those of Guido.