Jerome, in Latin Magius, one of the most learned men of the sixteenth century, was born at Anghiari in Tuscany. He applied himself to all the sciences, and even to the art of war; and distinguished himself so much in this last study, that when the Turks besieged Famagusta, he destroyed all the works of the besiegers by means of mines and fire-machines, and in an instant overthrew what had cost them infinite labour. But the Ottomans took the city in 1571, plundered his library, carried him loaded with chains to Constantinople, and after treating him in the most inhuman and barbarous manner, caused him to be strangled in prison in 1572.