Attendolo, Darius
, a military character, and a
man of letters, was born at Bagnacvallo in the kingdom of
Naples, about the year 1530, and accompanied the prince
of Salerno, general to Charles V. in his expedition against
Piedmont. He diverted the fatigues of his campaigns by
the study of polite literature, and the cultivation of a
poetical taste. His works were, “II Duello,” Venice, 1560,
which is a history of celebrated duels, and the laws respecting that remnant of barbarity. “A Discourse on Honour,”
| 1562, and various poems which have been inserted in collections.1
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