The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth Volume 3; In Four Volumes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 Excerpt: ... death of the poet Serafino d'Aquila, which happened in the year 1500; towards which he contributed two pieces, which were published in that collection at Bologna, in the year 1504. In this publication he is named by his baptismal appellation Marc.Antonio, which on his entering into regular orders he changed to that of Marco-Girolamo. The memorable combat between thirteen French and thirteen Italian soldiers under the walls of Barletta, in the year 1503, afforded him a subject for a more extensive work; the loss of which is to be regretted, not only as the early production of so elegant a writer, but as a curious historical document. Af M M 2, ter (a) "----Vos claras me scilicet artes, "Re licet mgusta, potius voluistis adire, "Quam genere indignis studiis incumbere nostro; "Atque ideo doctas docilem misistis ad urbes." Vid. Manibus Parenhim, in op. v. ii. p. 143. (b) v. ante. vol. ii. chap. vii. p. Q. note (a). If we accede to the opinion of Tiraboschi, Vida, at the time of the death of Serafino d' Aquila, was only about ten years of age, and at the time of the combat at Barletta, about thirteen; a period of life when it can Chap. xvn. ter having made a considerable proficiency in the more seA. D. i5i8. rious studies of philosophy, theology, and political econoA. iEt.43. mv? he repaired to Rome, where he arrived in the latter A. Pont vi. part Qr tne p0ntificate Qf Julius II. and appears to have been a constant attendant on those literary meetings which were then held in that city, and were continued in the commencement of the pontificate of Leo X. Of his larger works, on which his reputation as a Latin poet is at this day founded, his three books, De arte Poetica, were probably the first produced; and these were soon afterwards fol...