ANNIBALE, a celebrated Italian poet, born at Civita Nuova in 1507. He held successively the office of confidential secretary to the dukes of Parma, Pier-Lugio, and Ottavio Farnese, and to the cardinals Rameccio and Alexander. His works consist principally of Italian translations from the Greek of Gregory Nazianzen, Cyprian, and Aristotle, and from the Latin of Virgil. They are uniformly remarkable for the purity and elegance of their style. His fame has been greatly damaged by the virulence with which he attacked Ludovico Castelvetro in one of his canzoni, and his baseness in denouncing him to the holy office for having translated some of Melanchthon's writings. He died at Rome about 1566.