AMALTEO  , the name of an

Italian family belonging to Oderzo, Treviso, several members of which were distinguished in literature . The best known are three brothers, Geronimo (1507–1574), Giambattista (a 525-1573) and Cornelio (1530–i 603), whose Latin poems were published in one collection under the title Trium Fratrum Amaltheorum Carmina (Venice, 1627; Amst., 1689) . The eldest brother, Geronimo, was a celebrated physician; the second, Giambattista, accompanied a Venetian embassy to England in 1554, and was secretary to Pius IV. at the council of Trent; the third, Cornelio, was a physician and secretary to the republic of Ragusa .