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ERMOLAO BARBARO (HE1 Mor.AUS BARBARUS...

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 382 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARBARO (HE1 Mor.AUS BARBARUS) (1454-1493)  , See also:Italian See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Venice on the 21st of May 1454 . At an See also:early See also:age he was sent to See also:Rome, where he studied under See also:Pomponius See also:Laetus . He completed his See also:education at the university of See also:Padua, where he was appointed See also:professor of See also:philosophy in 1477 . Two years later he revisited Venice, but returned to Padua when the See also:plague See also:broke out in his native See also:city . He was sent on various See also:missions to persons of high See also:rank, amongst them See also:Pope See also:Innocent VIII., by whom he was nominated to the important See also:office of See also:patriarch of See also:Aquileia (1491) . The Venetian See also:senate, however, refused to ratify the See also:appointment, which, contrary to the See also:law, he had accepted without first obtaining its See also:sanction . He was banished and forced to resign the patriarchate, under the See also:threat of being punished vicariously by the See also:confiscation of his See also:father's See also:property . Barbarus remained at Rome, in See also:receipt of a small See also:pension from the pontifical See also:government, until his See also:death (probably from the plague) on the 14th of See also:June 1493 (according to some, two years later) . He edited and translated a number of classical See also:works, of which the most important were: Castigationes Plinianae (1492), in which he boasted of having made 5000 corrections in the See also:text of See also:Pliny's Natural See also:History; See also:Themistius' Paraphrases of certain works of See also:Aristotle (1480); Aristotle's Rhetorica (published in 1544) ; Castigationes in Pompanium Melam (1493) .

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