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ACCORSO (Accuxslus), MARIANGELO (c. 1490--1544) , See also: Italian critic, was See also: born at Aquila, in the See also: kingdom of Naples
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He was a See also: great favourite with See also: Charles V., at whose
See also: court he resided for See also: thirty-three years, and by whom he was employed on various See also: foreign See also: missions
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To a perfect knowledge of See also: Greek and Latin he added an intimate acquaintance with several See also: modern See also: languages
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In discovering and collating See also: ancient See also: manuscripts, for which his travels abroad gave him See also: special opportunities, he displayed uncommon See also: diligence
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His See also: work entitled Diatribae in Ausonium, Solinum et Ovidium (1524) is a monument of erudition and critical skill
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He was the first editor of the Letters of See also: Cassiodorus, with his See also: Treatise on the Soul (1538); and his edition of See also: Ammianus See also: Marcellinus (1533) contains five books more than any former one
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The affected use of antiquated terms, introduced by some of the Latin writers of that age, is humorously ridiculed by him, in a See also: dialogue in which an Oscan, a Volscian and a See also: Roman are introduced as interlocutors (1531)
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Accorso was accused of See also: plagiarism in his notes on Ausonius, a See also: charge which he most solemnly and energetically repudiated
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