See also:ACCORSO (Accuxslus), MARIANGELO (c. 1490--1544)
, See also:Italian critic, was See also:born at See also:Aquila, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples
.
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
.
To a perfect knowledge of See also:Greek and Latin he added an intimate acquaintance with several See also:modern See also:languages
.
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
.
His See also:work entitled Diatribae in Ausonium, Solinum et Ovidium (1524) is a See also:monument of erudition and See also:critical skill
.
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
.
The affected use of antiquated terms, introduced by some of the Latin writers of that See also: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)
.
See also:Accorso was accused of See also:plagiarism in his notes on See also:Ausonius, a See also:charge which he most solemnly and energetically repudiated
.
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