, a learned Italian of the sixteenth century, was born at Casliglione
, a learned Italian of the sixteenth century, was born at Casliglione Aretino. While
resident at Venice in 1559, he assisted in making a collection of all the Greek historians, or annalists, from whose
works he formed the “Collana Storica Graeca;
” or GreekHistorical Necklace, divided into twelve rings, to which
were added the jewels, or minor authors, serving to illustrate the greater. Porcacchi was likewise editor or
translator of Pomponius Mela, Quintus Curtius, and vftrfptts
other authors, and published some original works in poetry,
history, antiquities and geography. The most valued of
these is his “Funeral i antichi di diversi populi, &c.
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Venice,