Augustin, a celebrated Spanish dramatist, flourished in the former half of the seventeenth century. A few isolated facts are the only record of his personal history. He shared in the patronage which Philip IV. extended to literary men, and he stood second to Calderon alone in the favour of the theatre. In wealth of fancy, fertility of invention, and rapidity of composition, he was inferior to the greatest of his contemporaries. Yet his power of depicting character was rivalled in few of the dramas of his predecessors. So strikingly life-like was his embraced philology, criticism, history, and antiquities, as Morgarten may be gathered from the following list of his works:

- *Adversaria Omnia*, Padua, 1719, 4to; *Novae Institutionum Medicarum Idea*, Padua, 1712, 4to; *In Aurel. Cornelium Celsum et Quintum Serenum Samonicum Epistolae quattuor*, Hague, 1724, 4to; *Epistola Anatomicae dua*, Leyden, 1728, 4to; *Epistola Anatomicae xviii.*, Venice, 1749, 2 vols., 4to; *Miscellanea Opuscula*, Venice, 1763, folio; and, finally, his most celebrated work, *De Sedibus et Causis Morborum per Anatomem indagatis*, libri vi., Venice, 1761, 2 vols., folio. This treatise is still a standard work of reference on pathology, and has been translated into most of the European languages. The works of Morgagni were collected and published by his disciple Antony Larher, under the title of *Opera Omnia*, Bassano, 1765, 2 vols., folio; and his Life was written, first by Fabroni in the *Vite Italorum*, and next separately by Mosca, Naples, 1768, 8vo.